Britney Spears' husband Sam Asghari SLAMS Kevin Federline

Britney Spears’ husband Sam Asghari waded into his wife’s ongoing feud with ex-husband Kevin Federline as he mocked the star for being a ‘professional baby daddy’. 

In an upcoming ITV interview, teased exclusively by DailyMail.com on Thursday, Britney’s sons Jayden, 15, and Preston, 16, revealed the truth about their relationship with their mother and detailed their decision to stay with their father Kevin and his wife Victoria. 

During the chat, Jayden claimed that she didn’t show the brothers love equally and confirmed they hadn’t seen their mother in months, choosing not to attend her wedding to Sam in July. 

The 40-year-old pop star responded that night with a freewheeling Instagram tirade in which she told Jayden to ‘learn to pick up a book and read one’ and accused Kevin of ‘smoking pot every day’, quipping that he should ‘try and at least mow the lawn’.

Sam, 28, was quick to support his wife, commenting: ‘Mowing the lawn > professional baby daddy.’

In defence: Britney Spears ‘ husband Sam Asghari waded into his wife’s ongoing feud with ex-husband Kevin Federline as he mocked the star for being a ‘professional baby daddy’

In the post, an impassioned Britney penned: ‘I’ve tried my best at being the best person I can be … to be basically held hostage in homes under nurses and bulls*** I hope my kids one day understand my reasoning of my play in water revealing myself as any woman would being held under blankets and supervision under the conservatorship !!!’ she began. 

‘Finally at 40 without the restraints of what my family did to me … I say to my son Jayden that I send all the love in the world to you every day for the rest of my life !!!! My love for my children has no boundaries and it deeply saddens me to know his outcry of saying I wasn’t up to his expectations of a mother … and maybe one day we can meet face to face and talk about this openly !!!!’ she added.

‘Maybe dear child YOU can explain to me why our family would do that to anyone !!!! I helped your father who hasn’t had a job in 15 years … I assume it is easier for you guys not to have someone check on you to make sure you’re doing your homework !!!! I’m sure the standards of your dad smoking weed every day benefits your daily life at 15 and 16 to partake in a VERY COOL GENERATION !!!’

Speaking out: In an upcoming ITV interview, teased exclusively by DailyMail.com on Thursday, Britney’s sons Jayden, 15, (pictured with Kevin) and Preston, 16, revealed the truth about their relationship with their mother 

Hitting back: The 40-year-old pop star responded that night with a freewheeling Instagram tirade and Sam, 28, was quick to support his wife

Her broadside went on: ‘I completely understand your need to live with your father as I had to play the perfect role for 15 years for absolutely nothing. I’m so happy I was able to carry 4 tours, judge X Factor and WAAAY more … I did that for you. And Preston … I’m aware of your gift … I know you’re a teacher in my life and dear child I’m a teacher for you as well !!!’

Britney told her children: ‘It’s horrible to see your dad be a hypocrite and say the media is horrible yet he has you talking about personal matters to them !!! If you could pause for a second remember where you came from !!! I hope you can look in the mirror and remember … you are my child and always will be !!!! Since Preston didn’t speak, I send my love !!!’

She went on: ‘I would love nothing more than to see you two face to face. Keep playing your gift on the piano … you and your brother both are brilliant and I’m so proud to call you both mine.’

Her tone abruptly switched from affection to derision as she wrote: ‘As for my mental health … my dear child understand you must learn to pick up a book and read one before you resort to even thinking about my intellect sweetheart !!!’

Livid: Britney told Jayden to ‘learn to pick up a book and read one’ and accused Kevin of ‘smoking pot every day’, quipping that he should ‘try and at least mow the lawn’ in a fiery post 

Britney’s taunts continued: ‘Tell your father to go try and at least mow the lawn … Psss if you can honestly sit back and say with your sensible brilliant mind what memaw and paw paw did to me was fine and call them not bad people … then yes I have failed as a mother and hopefully that’s a chat for you and your father to sit face to face and try to learn WHAT’s GOOD.’

Last month the Mail on Sunday revealed that Britney hadn’t seen her sons in months. Their father, former dancer Kevin Federline, who Britney divorced in 2006, said the boys’ desire to avoid the circus surrounding their mother’s private life was so great they didn’t even attend her June wedding to American-Iranian model Sam.

Britney’s sons Jayden (left) and Preston (right) are pictured with documentary maker Daphne Barak at home

Britney Spears’ son Jayden (left), speaking with father Kevin (main) and half-brother Kaleb (right) lifts the lid on his relationship with his mother

In response, Britney accused her sons of ‘abandoning her’ and ‘being hateful’ in a now deleted Instagram post, after which Kevin, 44, posted videos allegedly showing the singer ‘screaming’ at her sons when they were younger. Also now removed.

Britney has since deleted her Instagram account altogether and last week uploaded a voice recording online in which she claimed her family had ‘literally killed’ her through her conservatorship ordeal. That too has now been deleted.

As claim and counter claim between Kevin and Britney played out in public, two voices were missing – those of their children. 

Now, speaking for the first time to documentary film maker Daphne Barak, Preston and Jayden reveal the truth about their relationship with their mother.

The interview will air on ITV news tomorrow.

The boys’ desire to avoid the circus surrounding their mother’s private life was so great they didn’t even attend her June wedding to American-Iranian model Sam

A rare picture of the Federline family all together, as they enjoy a steak dinner. Bottom-left, light blue shirt: Jayden. Bottom-right, black shirt: Preston

There is ‘no hate’ Jayden stresses, but he admits ‘it will take a lot of time and effort’ to repair their fractured relationship. 

‘I 100% think this can be fixed. It’s just going to take a lot of time and effort. I just want her to get better mentally. When she gets better I really want to see her again. ‘

Speaking directly to their mother, he adds: ‘I love you a lot, I hope for the best for you. Maybe one day we can sit down like this and talk again.’

Earlier this year Britney posted a series of naked pictures online to celebrate her freedom, before deleting them

Yet to do so at her wedding to Sam, 28, who Britney met on the set of her music video Slumber Party in 2016, would have been inappropriate, he believes. ‘At the time it just wasn’t a good time to go. I’m not saying that I’m not happy for her,’ explains Jayden. ‘I’m really happy for them, but she didn’t invite the whole family and then if it was just going to be me and Preston, I just don’t see how that situation would have ended on good terms.’

Following her divorce Britney suffered a well-publicised breakdown that culminated in Kevin gaining custody of their children in 2007. After the conservatorship was established in 2008 Britney acquired shared custody again, and occasional snapshots of Britney with the boys over the years – beaming at the camera at a baseball match, celebrating birthday dinners, splashing around in a swimming pool – suggest a tender bond between mother and sons was forged.

But Kevin was reportedly given 70 per cent custody in 2019.

The children then stopped their over night stays. Their monitors visits became less frequent, until they decided to stop visiting their mom.

In person the boys are bright, articulate and – thanks to Kevin and his wife Victoria’s diligent parenting – pretty much like any other pair of teenagers.

Although younger, Jayden is the more extrovert of the siblings, a self-taught pianist who, like his mother perhaps, views music as ‘therapy’ and speaks on the siblings’ behalf.

Preston, who also enjoys music and art, is more sensitive, and camera shy. The pair enjoy an irrevocable bond borne of their unique upbringing. ‘Preston and I are very united. He is always looking out for me and I am looking out for him. We make sure that we are both healthy mentally,’ says Jayden.

They offer a fascinating insight into an upbringing overshadowed by their mother’s stardom, controversial conservatorship and ongoing concern for her mental health – earlier this year Britney posted a series of naked pictures online to celebrate her freedom, before deleting them. 

Recalling growing up with a famous mother, Jayden said: ‘There was this TV and it just showed all these people, and it showed her singing and dancing on the stage, and when I saw that I was like ‘Wow, that is a lot of people’ and I came to the realisation of how famous she was and how successful she is as a person and that inspired me.’ 

Her turbulent life in her £10m Los Angeles mansion is in stark contrast to the domestic stability Preston and Jayden enjoy just a few miles away.

They share a home with their father and his wife Victoria, 39, a former volleyball champion, Kevin’s older children, Kori, 20 and Kaleb, 18, from a previous relationship with actress Shar Jackson, and his two children with Victoria – Jordan, 11 and eight-year-old Peyton. ‘I feel this is my safe place. My home,’ says Jayden. ‘I love everybody here.’

The family allowed filming to take place in the park as part of a documentary in which they opened up on their relationship with Britney Spears

Daphne Barak (middle) interviews Britney’s ex-husband Kevin Federline (right) and son Jayden (left)

Yet he is keen to stress he also loves the Spears family Britney has relentlessly criticised. 

In addition to lashing out at what she describes as an ‘abusive’ conservatorship imposed by her father Jamie, 70, the singer has accused her mother Lynne, 67, who separated from Jamie in 2002, of being the ‘brains’ behind the conservatorship. 

She has described her sister Jamie Lynne, 31, as ‘insane’ for not siding with her against her parents and accused her brother Bryan, 45, of treating her like ‘absolutely nothing.’

Kevin, who met Britney at a Hollywood club in 2004, when she was emerging from a 55-hour long marriage to her childhood friend Jason Alexander and he was expecting his second child with Shar, admits his relationship with Britney’s father has not been without incident.

In November 2019 he took out a restraining order against his former father-in-law Jamie following claims of an altercation. But he believes Jamie ‘really cares about his family’ and the sentiment is one his sons echo, despite having been critical towards him in the past.

Britney Spears and Kevin Federline arrive at the 2006 Grammy Nominees party in Hollywood, California

Jaden said: ‘At first he was just trying to be like any father letting her pursue her daughter’s dream of becoming a superstar but I did think maybe the conservatorship went on too long, probably why my Mum was very angry about the whole situation that she was working for too long and I personally think she was. She should have taken a break and relaxed.’ 

But he adds that Jamie ‘doesn’t deserve all the hatred he is getting in the media. I love him, with all my heart. He was just trying to be a father.’

He says his mother is ‘ceasing to realise how much he cares for her’ and cannot parry the manipulative Spears family Britney has portrayed with the relatives he knows.

‘When I meet them in person they would not do such things,’ says Jayden, describing his fun loving Uncle Bryan as someone who ‘always wants to go and play ball in the park’ and his grandmother Lynne, who he calls Memow, ‘a really nice person’. 

Britney Spears with father Jamie Spears in a photo she posted on Instagram on June 21, 2015, with caption: Happy Father’s Day, daddy! Love you!!’

‘Whenever I see her, she cares about me. They are not bad people! They know what we are going through now. They want our future to be what we want it to be. They just want to watch over us. Memow and Uncle Bryan are a good part of our lives. They have taught me how to deal with things.’

Not that he has always felt this sanguine towards them. In March 2020 Jayden, when questioned by fans on social media, described Jamie as a ‘d**k.’ Now, however, he says: ‘Looking back, I regret saying all kinds of things. I really feel bad. Preston and I feel bad. We want to see him. I want to see him, sit with him next to the piano, talk about my future.’

Coming to terms with their mother posting pictures of herself naked online must have been embarrassing enough for the teenagers, but seeing themselves thrust into the public eye against their will is arguably more troubling, especially for Preston, who, Jayden says, ‘doesn’t like the cameras. He asked my mother not to post his photos, and she did it anyway. So it didn’t go well.’

He, meanwhile, seems torn between thinking Britney has a right to broadcast her life and body on Instagram and wanting her to realise the ramifications on her family. ‘Social media helps her… So if that’s what she wants to do that’s what she wants to do, I’m not going to hate her for that. At the same time, she should come to the realisation of whatever it is that stops her loving her family.

‘It’s almost like she has to post something on Instagram to get some attention. This has gone on for years and years and years and there’s a high chance that this will never stop but I’m hoping for me that she will stop.’ 

Perhaps wisely, neither boy is consumed by social media. ‘I do have an Instagram account but I barely go on it,’ says Jayden, while Preston, he adds, is prone to ‘overthinking’ about what strangers will say about him. Instead, home ‘is our safe place to process all the emotional trauma we have been through to actually heal. My family is helping me focus on myself and succeed.’

Following her divorce Britney suffered a well-publicised breakdown that culminated in Kevin (pictured) gaining custody of their children in 2007

Growing up, it seems Preston bore the brunt of their mother’s frustration. 

‘I think Mom has struggled giving us both attention and showing us equal love & I don’t think she showed enough to Preston and I feel really bad for that. We’ve both been through so much pressure in the past that this is our safe place now, to process all the emotional trauma we’ve been through to heal, heal our mental state.’ 

At this point his voice trails off.

‘If I complained, she went after him,’ he resumes. ‘I feel guilty, so I am there for him,’ says Jayden, admitting that ‘mom has treated me better.’

When he’s upset, he reveals, he confides in his dad first, ‘because he is always there, to put the pieces together. Or I will try going to my siblings, to get distracted from whatever it is … This family here has really helped me, not to worry about many things.’

Sean Federline, Jayden James Federline, Britney Spears and Sam Asghari attend a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors at Staples Center on November 29, 2017

When Britney’s conservatorship was initially established after her breakdown in 2008 Kevin said a period of stability followed, while Jayden implies that their mother’s behaviour became all the more difficult to deal with as they approached adolescence.

‘We have been going back and forth for years. But when you become 10,11…,’ says Jayden.

Despite his frustration, however, he harbours hope he and his mother will be reunited, while fearing the drama surrounding her life may never end. ‘I know it has been going on for years.

There is a high chance it is never going to stop,’ he says. ‘It is so easy to be negative. It is so easy to dip into sadness and depression. It is harder to spread positivity.’ 

Words Britney may find all too relatable.

Britney’s ex-husband Kevin Federline and wife Victoria sit down to chat to Daphne Barak in a new documentary

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