Kevin Federline claims that Britney Spears drank while pregnant and did cocaine while breastfeeding in new excerpts from the former dancer’s upcoming memoir, published in several news outlets.
These claims in You Thought You Knew (out Oct. 21), especially regarding Spears’ alleged cocaine use, contradict the pop star’s own memoir, in which she downplayed speculation about substance use during her party days. In The Woman in Me, Spears said that she “never had a drinking problem” and wasn’t interested in hard drugs, calling the ADHD med Adderall her “drug of choice.”
But Federline claims in his new book that he started to worry about Spears when she allegedly began drinking alcohol not only while pregnant, but while taking other medications, too. Though he didn’t say what meds Spears was on, he called the mix with booze “dangerous” and “fucked up, honestly” (via People).
“You’re not supposed to drink when you’re on meds like that,” he wrote. “A couple of glasses of wine for her would hit like a whole bottle because of the medication.”
As for Spears’ alleged cocaine use, the book reportedly contains a scene in which Spears shows up to Federline’s album release party in 2006 with her brother, father, agent, and an unnamed actress. Federline claims he walked in on Spears and the actress “snorting a fat line of coke off the table.” While Federline writes that he’d seen Spears use coke before, this alleged instance startled him because Spears was still breastfeeding their young kids, Sean and Jayden, at the time.
“What was hitting me in that moment was everything else, what this meant for the kids,” he writes (via E!). He continues: “It was really upsetting because of the danger to the kids… We could have prepared. She could have pumped milk for Jayden so [Spears’] mom had that ready. But the way she was that night had nothing to do with us; it was something else entirely.”
Federline says he later told Spears, “Please don’t go home and breastfeed the kids like this. Call your mom or someone. We need to get formula. You can’t do this.” He then writes that Spears looked at him with “instant rage in her eyes. Like she wanted to slap the shit out of me. Instead, she stood up, took her drink, and threw it straight into my face. In front of everyone. My family, my best friends, the whole damn table. I was in all-white. And she soaked me with a vodka cranberry.”
Federline calls this “the beginning of the end” of his relationship with Spears. The couple separated later that year and finalized their divorce in 2007.
A rep for Spears did not immediately return Rolling Stone‘s request for comment regarding Federline’s claims about her drinking and cocaine use. However, Spears and her reps have already issued statements in response to another claim from the book that emerged earlier this week regarding Spears’ alleged behavior while her children visited during her conservatorship. (Federline had sole custody of Sean and Jayden for most of that time.)
“They would awaken sometimes at night to find her standing silently in the doorway, watching them sleep — ‘Oh, you’re awake?’ — with a knife in her hand,” Federline wrote. “Then she’d turn around and pad off without explanation.”
In a response, a rep for Spears said Federline and others “are profiting off [Spears] 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.”
Spears issued a statement as well on social media, writing, “Trust me, those white lies in that book, they are going straight to the bank and I am the only one who genuinely gets hurt here… [I]f you really know me, you won’t pay attention to the tabloids of my mental health and drinking. I am actually a pretty intelligent woman who has been trying to live a sacred and private life the past 5 years. I speak on this because I have had enough and any real woman would do the same.”
