THE ex-husband of Britney Spears fears the troubled hitmaker is taking highly-addictive drug crystal meth.
And I can exclusively reveal how he helped set up an intervention in a desperate attempt to save the singer from herself.
Kevin Federline told me: “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.”
Both of Britney’s teenage sons, Preston, 17, and Jayden 16, claim they witnessed someone close to their mother bringing her what looked like drugs before they decided to stop seeing her last summer.
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These concerns, coupled with Britney’s erratic behaviour, led to the intervention attempt on February 7.
Kevin, 45, who has custody of both boys, was staying with me and my husband Bill Gunasti at our home in Los Angeles.
‘Last chance’
Friends and family rented a “safe house” in Los Angeles and hired “interventionist” Matt Brown — a medical professional who specialises in treating addictions.
During filming for an upcoming documentary I have made on the Spears family, I watched on, horrified, as their carefully hatched plan unravelled.
As Kevin, who was waiting nervously for an update, told me: “I don’t want the boys to wake up one morning and find their mother has taken an overdose.”
He told us that Britney’s husband Sam Asghari, 29, manager Cade Hudson and her doctors were also in on the plan, and the interventionist was on standby.
Her long-time friend Jodi Montgomery — who was appointed by a court to control Britney’s affairs in place of her father and continued working for her after the conservatorship ended — had told Kevin to prepare his boys for what was to happen.
He was glued to his phone, waiting for a text from Jodi to say the intervention was under way.
Kevin went outside to smoke, then raced back, waving his phone.
“Jodi just quit,” he told us.
“She said she can’t do this any longer. She suggested I call the interventionist directly.”
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Kevin’s calls to the interventionist went unanswered.
Two days later news of the Save Britney plan leaked out — and the star denied on social media that it had ever happened.
As another family member told me: “This was the last chance for saving her. I am afraid that after that, another intervention will not be possible.”
Britney Spears has a complicated history with drugs.
In 2007, the California judge in her custody case concluded that she was “a habitual, frequent and continuous” drug user.
Family members and former employees have also accused her of abusing illegal substances.
Britney has not admitted to using drugs but in 2021 claimed she was forced to take mood stabiliser lithium while under her conservatorship.
Former dancer Kevin has long held fears about substance issues, dating back to when the boys were babies.
In 2006, at Britney’s urging, he left newborn Jayden and Preston, then one, at home with her to launch his career as a rap artist.
But she turned up backstage behaving erratically.
That same evening, Britney’s mother Lynne, 68, called Kevin in a panic to say she was minding the boys but there was no milk or baby food in the house.
Kevin confronted Britney, who got angry, spilled her drink over him and left.
He later found out that she went home and kicked her mother out.
Desperately worried about leaving his sons with her, Kevin told me how he instructed his lawyer to send a letter warning her not to breastfeed the babies while on drugs.
After spending nine months filming with one of the most controversial families in showbiz, I know her family’s concerns extend beyond substance abuse.
Before cutting contact with his mum, Britney’s youngest son recalls being woken by his mother clutching a kitchen knife.
Jayden told his father: “Suddenly the door opened in the middle of the night. She was standing there with a knife.”
Both boys became increasingly alarmed by Britney’s behaviour — Jayden recalls she insisted on bathing them as if they were babies when they were 12 and 11, and waking them in the middle of the night to apply skin lotion.
As recently as 2019, a visit with their mother ended in disaster when she took them to see her father Jamie, 70, who was reportedly just out of rehab himself.
Kevin said: “They all sat down to eat, but Jamie started drinking and lost his temper when he discovered Preston had given up playing basketball, his favourite sport."
Terrified, Preston fled and locked himself in a bedroom.
Jamie ran after him and smashed the glass in the door.
To her credit, Britney took the boys away immediately, and Preston called Kevin in tears from her car, begging: “Dad, never send me back here . . . never.”
As a result, Kevin filed a police report and a court issued a restraining order stopping Jamie seeing Jayden and Preston for three years.
That expired last year, but they are still not yet in touch, although both boys told me they love Jamie, who helped raise them, and that they hope to be reunited with him one day.
Desperate for his mother to “get better”, Jayden has been refusing to answer her calls and texts since revealing through me that he was no longer seeing Britney.
“We have been through a trauma,” he admits.
But Preston rang her on December 2 to wish her a happy birthday, and had a “good talk” with her recently.
Kevin still receives $40,000 from Britney every month for the boys’ care.
Their rented house in the gated community of Calabasas, California, is just a stone’s throw from Kourtney Kardashian’s home.
But it’s no A-list lifestyle.
The unmowed lawn is littered with dog poop from their two small pooches Feddie and Jama.
No flowers have been planted.
The family survives on takeaways — and there is no communal dinner time at the dining room table.
And despite being one of the most photographed women in the world, there are no pictures of Britney in the home.
Neither Kevin nor his wife Victoria, 40, hold down proper jobs, but are, like any loving parents, driving the kids to school and their various activities
Kevin regularly smokes — Britney claims his roll-ups contain marijuana — while Victoria whiles away time gambling on fantasy sports.
But their relaxed pace of life may soon be disrupted.
Now she has stopped touring, Britney hopes to reduce her monthly payments by half to $20,000 as Preston is 18 in September.
It is a move that will no doubt be resisted by Kevin, who is making plans to move his family to Hawaii and may go to court to have it sanctioned if he can’t get Britney’s approval.
There, child support can potentially be extended past the age of 18.
The good-looking boys play piano and guitar and enjoy working out with weights.
Both are dating.
All in all, they are young men any mother or grandfather should be proud of — if only they knew how.
- Daphne Barak is a documentary filmmaker whose interviewees include Nelson Mandela, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
