Kevin Federline stated that the news of Britney Spears‘ alleged drug usage “saddens” his family.
In response to rumors that the singer is using drugs, Kevin Federline and Britney Spears have released a statement.
Over the weekend, According to The Daily Mail, Federline, 45, was interviewed about his worries that Spears, 41, is abusing narcotics. “I fear she’s on meth — I’ve been praying someone would make it public and that she wakes up. … It’s terrifying. She is the mother of my boys,” journalist Daphne Barak alleged Federline told her.
Federline has since declared in a statement shared on his Instagram Story that the news is “false” and “repulsive” and that it “saddens” his family, which includes the two boys he has with Spears, Sean Preston, 17, and Jayden James, 16, as well as other family members.
“[The] lies and attempts to exploit minors is click bait and another repulsive example of where, unfortunately, certain journalism has sunk today,” he added, in part.
Kevin Federline stated that the news of Britney Spears’ alleged drug usage
Additionally, Britney addressed her two boys and their tense relationship in a message that was uploaded on her Instagram account in response to the story.
“The fact that people are claiming things that are not true is so sad … This may not even be them saying such things because it doesn’t make any sense to me for them to be saying that,” she said, in part. “… It makes me sad because I tried so hard to make things nice for you and it was never good enough. So you guys go behind my back and talk about me … it breaks my heart and the news is so low.”
“Hopefully it is just the news being hateful and Kevin nor Preston said any of those things,” she added.
In a legal letter sent to The Daily Mail on Sunday, Spears’ attorney, Mathew Rosengart, slammed the reports of the star’s alleged use of crystal meth.
“The Daily Mail, through Daphne Barak, posted a story yesterday containing numerous false and defamatory fabrications concerning my client Britney Spears that are attributed to Kevin Federline and his children, in particular regarding ‘crystal meth,’ ” the letter begins.
Noting that Federline “acknowledged the falsity of Ms. Barak’s story” when he spoke to TMZ earlier in the day, Rosengart’s letter continues, “I have separately learnt that on several occasions, Ms. Barak sought to contact Britney under false pretenses, again her minor children, which is exploitative, harassing, and outrageous.”
“And moreover, Britney’s representatives were never contacted prior to the publication of the story, further demonstrating actual malice and reckless disregard for the truth,” the legal document added.
The letter concluded, “Britney is indeed a public figure, but this conduct is beyond the pale and completely unacceptable. It is shoddy even by today’s standards of ‘journalism’ and the unfair scrutiny she has faced.”
Rosengart also said he would “follow up separately” but asked the outlet to “please confirm” that it would “immediately delete and retract that false and defamatory story and conduct an internal investigation regarding this matter and the abuse of Britney and her children.”
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