Why Kevin Federline Didn’t Help Britney During Conservatorship

Talking his reality. Kevin Federline revealed why he didn’t assist ex-wife Britney Spears throughout her conservatorship — and the way their boys really feel about her now.

“I used to be mortified for her. I actually was,” the 44-year-old backup dancer mentioned in a Wednesday, August 31, teaser for his 60 Minutes Australia interview. “I nonetheless really feel unhealthy.”

Through the episode, which is able to air in its entirety on Sunday, September 4, Federline claimed that he couldn’t permit Spears’ authorized drama to be his drawback since he needed to proceed to make their youngsters, Sean Preston, 16, and Jayden, 15, his precedence in the course of the tumultuous time.

“The boys, the boys, the boys. I needed to fear about them,” the California native — whose marriage to Spears, 40, lasted from 2004 to 2006 — defined. “I couldn’t become involved.”

In November 2021, the “Poisonous” singer’s 13-year conservatorship over her particular person and her property lastly ended. Spears was initially positioned below the authorized contract in 2008 after she skilled highly-publicized highs and lows following her divorce from Federline — a few of which she not too long ago claimed have been staged by her mother and father.

The conservatorship saved her from making any of her personal private or skilled choices for greater than a decade. By its finish, the musician’s father, Jamie Spears, was overseeing the property, whereas caretaker Jodi Montgomery was the conservator of her particular person.

After reaching authorized freedom, the Crossroads actress handled drama in her dwelling. Britney’s two sons, who’ve grow to be extra distant lately, selected to not attend her June marriage ceremony to Sam Asghari.

“Though the boys won’t be in attendance, Kevin and the boys are joyful for Britney and need her and Sam all one of the best going ahead,” Federline’s legal professional Mark Vincent Kaplan informed TMZ in an announcement on the time.

Federline later claimed throughout an August tell-all interview with Britain’s ITV that the boys “have determined they aren’t seeing her proper now.”

Britney fired again on the claims through Instagram on August 6. “It saddens me to listen to that my ex-husband has determined to debate the connection between me and my youngsters,” the “Radar” songstress wrote. “As everyone knows, elevating teenage boys isn’t straightforward for anybody … it considerations me the truth that the reason being based mostly on my Instagram … it was LONG earlier than Instagram … I gave them each factor … Just one phrase: HURTFUL.”

In Federline’s new 60 Minutes interview, nonetheless, he maintained that his job has all the time been “retaining my boys secure.” He additional defined that “it’s been just a few months since they’ve really seen” their mom.

In terms of how his relationship with Britney developed over time, he mentioned, “It was superb till it wasn’t.”

60 Minutes Australia airs on 9 Community on Sundays.