Britney Spears apparently had some unfinished enterprise earlier than her marriage ceremony to Kevin Federline.
In a brand new interview, Federline, 47, claimed Spears, 43, tearfully known as her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake the night time earlier than they walked down the aisle in 2004.
“We’re on the Fairmont in Santa Monica in one of many bungalows,” he advised Leisure Tonight on Tuesday, October 14. “And I’m like, ‘What’s improper?’ I believed she was speaking to her mother on the telephone or one thing and possibly she was, like, having doubts. And she or he advised me that she was on the telephone with Justin.”
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Federline recalled being shocked and questioning whether or not he had heard Spears accurately.
Britney Spears and Kevin Federline have actually had their ups and downs since splitting in November 2006. The previous couple — who tied the knot in 2004 and share sons Sean Preston and Jayden — have gone from feuding exes to supportive coparents. Federline praised his ex-wife for searching for psychological well being remedy amid her father […]
“[I was like], ‘We don’t have to do that,’” he shared. “I didn’t care if we obtained married or not.”
Federline stated Spears instantly assured him that she merely wished closure and to say her “closing piece” to Timberlake, 44, after the ‘NSync alum broke up together with her in 2002 for admittedly dishonest on him with their mutual choreographer Wade Robson.
“I used to be like, ‘Rattling, on the night time earlier than our marriage ceremony, that is what you resolve to do?’” Federline remembered. “So I type of on the time took it with a grain of salt and took her rationalization as, OK, possibly she is closing a chapter of her life.”
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When ET cohost Kevin Frazier known as the second a “hell of a purple flag,” Federline agreed, “Man, you’re telling me.”
“I used to be tremendous younger,” he added. “I used to be so head over heels in love at that second.”
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Even after they stated “I do,” Federline stated he may inform Spears was not totally “over” Timberlake, however he swears he understood that the “SexyBack” singer was the Princess of Pop’s past love.
“I couldn’t think about what it was prefer to be her. I couldn’t think about or really feel what it was prefer to be Justin in these moments as a result of they had been tremendous younger, proper? You’re speaking youngsters that needed to undergo this globally,” he famous. “And I do know that they actually cared about one another again then.”
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In response to Federline’s press tour for his upcoming memoir, You Thought You Knew, Spears’ rep stated in an announcement to Us Weekly earlier on Tuesday, “As soon as once more he and others are profiting off her, and sadly it comes after youngster help has ended with Kevin. All she cares about are her children, Sean Preston and Jayden James, and their well-being throughout this sensationalism.”
Us has additionally reached out to Timberlake’s rep for remark.
Once you’re as iconic within the leisure trade as Britney Spears, it is exhausting to maintain your love life below wraps. And the pop princess has undoubtedly had her fair proportion of well-known boyfriends — do the names Justin Timberlake, Fred Durst, Ok-Fed and Criss Angel ring a bell?
Spears and Federline welcomed their two sons, Preston, 20, and Jayden, 19, earlier than separating in 2006. They finalized their divorce in 2007.
Spears was most lately married to Sam Asghari from 2022 to 2024. Federline, for his half, wed Victoria Prince in 2013, they usually share two daughters: Jordan, 14, and Peyton, 11. Timberlake, in the meantime, tied the knot with Jessica Biel in 2012, they usually have two sons: Silas, 10, and Phineas, 5.
You Thought You Knew is offered in bookstores subsequent Tuesday, October 21.
