Britney Speaks hit back at claims her LA mansion was ‘dirty’ while modelling a tiny swimsuit in a yet another bizarre Instagram post on Monday.
It comes amid fears the campaign to end the 43-year-old pop star’s conservatorship was a catastrophic mistake following ex-husband Kevin Federline’s bombshell claims about her ‘shocking behaviour’.
In the latest clip Spears stood in front of a full length mirror as she showed off her figure in the plunging pink bather which she wore with knee-high black boots.
While gazing into the phone her lavish hallway with sweeping staircase and grand piano could seen strewn with piles of clothes.
The Toxic hitmaker captioned the post: ‘This actually isn’t old… I tried on the same bathing suit last week I wore on IG before I left to Mexico … it’s been cold as hell so I wanted make sure it fit… covered with huge jackets all day’
‘My luggage and clothes packing to visit a friend in Santa Barbara if people are curious as to why its not perfectly clean you wise asses… my home is actually gonna be on the cover of Homes and Gardens soon’.
In his new memoir Federline said he finally realised his marriage to Britney was irreparable the night she rang him up begging him to come and join the party – as their two young children cried in the background.
Those same children, Sean Preston, 20, and Jayden James, 19, would later tell him they would sometimes awaken at night to find their mother ‘standing silently in the doorway, watching them sleep… with a knife in her hand’.
On other occasions, Federline – who got many of the stories second-hand from the children – says the hot-tempered Spears punched one of them in the face and threatened him with a knife.
When they were babies, he claims, she was determined to breastfeed them after drinking and snorting cocaine.
Federline, one of Spears’s former backing dancers, was married to her from 2004 to 2007 – after her first burst of stardom had waned – and was later granted sole custody of their children.
In a relentlessly shocking book, Federline, now 47, claims Spears, 43, routinely endangered the young boys as she struggled with mental illness.
He delivers a powerful rejoinder to the widespread perception – championed fiercely by fans and supporters in the ‘Free Britney Movement’ – that the singer was the victim of a terrible injustice when she was placed in a 13-year conservatorship by a court alarmed by the state of her mental health.
Under the terms of the order, her father, Jamie, was given control of her person and her money.
Although he acknowledges it was difficult for all involved, Federline insists the conservatorship period, which lasted from 2008 to 2021 and was so restrictive that Spears even needed permission to redecorate her kitchen, actually ‘brought stability when it was desperately needed’.
However, he continues, Spears has crucially never admitted she has ‘a problem’, and so her erratic behaviour hasn’t stopped.
Fellow diners at the Red-O restaurant in Thousand Oaks, California, would probably agree after Wednesday night’s performance.
Footage obtained by the Daily Mail showed an apparently intoxicated Spears raise a glass in a bizarre toast to the entire restaurant.
Later, taking the wheel of her black BMW despite the protests of friends, she drove home, a journey of U-turns, sharp accelerations and spells on the wrong side of the road.
‘That refusal to take responsibility is the root of everything that’s gone wrong,’ says Federline. ‘She saw the events in her life through a prism that painted her as the victim, the misunderstood one, the person wronged by everyone around her.’
He believes the dissolution of the conservatorship, after a judge ruled it ‘no longer required’, made way for ‘history repeating itself’.
Federline insists the Free Britney Movement ‘got it wrong’ and ‘vilified everyone around [Spears] so intensely that now it’s nearly impossible for anyone to step in’. Since the conservatorship ended, ‘it’s become impossible to pretend everything’s OK,’ he says, describing her situation as ‘racing toward something irreversible’.
Federline concludes: ‘Something bad is going to happen if things don’t change, and my biggest fear is that our sons will be left holding the pieces.’
Federline, who has six children from three relationships, won sole custody of the two sons he had with Britney – now 20 and 19 – after she filed for divorce in 2006, leading to a protracted fight over the children.
Spears has now accused Federline of ‘constant gaslighting’. She suggests he is trying to profit from their connection with a book that was only published after she stopped paying him child support.
According to Spears, the contents of Federline’s memoir have further strained her relationship with their two children, one of whom, she claims, she has only seen for a total of 45 minutes in the past five years. Spears denies that she is an erratic mother – although she has not denied Federline’s specific claims.
‘To be loved unconditionally and with a naive heart like mine, always being threatened or made to believe I’m the bad one as they profit off my pain,’ she tweeted last week before the book was published.
‘If you really love someone then you don’t help them by humiliating them. What scared me was how serious and angry he got, people have no idea, it is way worse than anyone could imagine.’
