Britney Spears’ first husband, Jason Alexander, is calling out her ex Kevin Federline and his tell-all book.
Federline’s new book, You Thought You Knew, claims to expose troubling details about his ex wife, including an accusation that she cheated on him with a female dancer during a tour stop in Amsterdam. However, Alexander is criticizing Federline’s account of the events, accusing him of rewriting history to make himself appear blameless.
In a lengthy Instagram post shared on Tuesday (Oct. 14), Alexander called out Federline directly, “As someone who’s known Britney most of her life — not just as her first husband, but as a friend who’s seen what she’s gone through — I can’t stay silent.
“Kevin, you don’t get to tell half the story. Not when you were in the middle of it. It’s easy to point fingers now, to talk about Britney’s struggles like you were just some innocent bystander watching it all happen. But that’s not what went down. You were her husband. You were supposed to be her protector,” he wrote.
Alexander alleged Federline was “partying right alongside her,” adding, “The drugs, the alcohol, the chaos… you were there for all of it. You weren’t trying to pull her out — you were feeding off it.”
He noted that Federline was able to receive full custody, child support, and “a lifestyle funded by the same woman you now want to distance yourself from.”
“Let’s be honest — you became a millionaire off of her pain. And now, you want to act like the mature one, like the man who held it all together? No. That’s not growth, that’s revision,” Alexander wrote.
He continued, “If you’re going to write a book, at least have the guts to tell the truth about your part in it. The nights you partied. The times you turned your back. The ways you used the media and the court system to your advantage. You played the game, Kevin. You just want to forget that now because it doesn’t fit the image you’re trying to sell.
“Britney has been through enough — and it’s always men trying to profit from her story while ignoring the damage they helped cause. You want to tell your side? Fine. But don’t pretend you were the victim or the hero. Be real. Be accountable. Because those of us who were really there — who actually cared about her, not the fame — we remember how it really went down. And we’re not buying the rewrite."
Spears’ team also responded to Federline’s allegations in a statement made to TMZ, reading, “With news from Kevin’s book breaking, once again he and others are profiting off her and sadly it comes after child support has ended with Kevin. All she cares about are her kids, Sean Preston and Jayden James, and their well-being during this sensationalism. She detailed her journey in her memoir.”
The pop singer and Alexander tied the knot in January 2004 and were married for 55 hours before it was annulled. In 2007, Spears and Federline were married but divorced in 2007.