‘I’m Afraid Mom’s Going To Die’ Kevin Federline & Sons Fear For Britney Spears’ LIFE

23:24Piers Morgan:I mean, you see this slippery path a lot with people, especially when they're young and they become big stars. They turn to drugs, they turn to alcohol, they turn to all sorts of stuff, and it can end up killing them. It can. I always think fame is one of the most lethal drugs of all. But do you think it's that that was the catalyst or were there demons there long before she became famous?

23:51I don't know. I think, honestly, that it could be a little bit of both. And I agree with you 100%. I even talk about it in my book. I think that fame is the most powerful drug in the world. And it's a very dangerous place to be. I mean, I've lived through some of that myself. And, you know, it's really, really tough. But I couldn't honestly tell you for sure because when we were first together, you know, things were so great, you know. And I talk about a lot of this in my book about how incredible it was until it wasn't. And I mean, it's just, it's really hard to say if things were there before, right?

24:36I think that that's a big possibility. but I also think that the situation that she's in with how famous that she was at such a young age, I mean, it definitely played a part. I think everything has played a part in this.

24:50Piers Morgan:She also said on Instagram at the weekend that she may have a lot more to reveal. She said, trust me, there's a lot I didn't share in my book and still things at this very moment I've kept hidden because it's incredibly painful and sad. I do feel the logic and mindfulness in my body as one was 100 % murdered and destroyed. I couldn't dance or move for five months. I do feel like my wings were taken away and brain damage happened to me a long time ago, 100%. I have, of course, moved on from that troubling time in my life and I'm blessed to be alive. What did you make of that when you saw it? I mean, look, I feel that everybody has the right to tell their truth, right?

25:32But I would just make sure that it's the truth. That's what I would say.

25:38Piers Morgan:Do you think she should be back in a conservative ship? Do you think she needs to be back in a conservative ship? Do you think the Free Britney campaign ended up having the complete opposite effect? I do think that the campaign had the opposite effect, but I also think that if you really look at it, like, they want her at her best, right? And I think that's something that all of us can agree on. Like, we all want her at her best, you know? And I just hope that somehow, someway, it gets there. I don't have the answers. I don't know if a conservatorship is the right thing. I don't know what the answers are.

26:20I don't. I mean, that's another reason why I've gone so public with this, is, you know, we're searching for answers and we're searching for support. My sons, they, you know, I mean, that's really, at the end of the day of what this whole thing is. I've done everything for my kids. I've done everything for my family. And this is a part of that. Like, what type of father am I to not try and reach out and help? And I understand that a lot of people think that this is only going to hurt. There is no other way. You have to trust me in that because we've tried everything. We've tried to do it privately.

26:58We've tried to help her in every which way we possibly can. And everybody's She's been shut out. So what do you do?

27:05Piers Morgan:Have your boys read the book? My boys know everything that's in this book, yes. And they support you with all of it? 100%. If Britney happens to see this interview, Kevin, what would your message to her be?

27:29my message to Brittany is know that you are loved there are so many people around that care about you and please please try to find your way back to the people that actually love you

27:49Piers Morgan:Kevin Federline I appreciate you coming on the censor thank you very much thank you so much Piers Well, fascinating interview. I'm joined now by DJ Vlad, the cultural commentator, by Javier de Rousseau, the commentator with PragerU, and Esther Krakow, uncensored contributor, and Tyler Wells, a Free Britney advocate. Well, let me start with you, Tyler Wells, there, because Kevin Feddle, I'm making it very clear that he thinks the Free Britney campaign, albeit well-intentioned, actually ended up having a very damaging effect on Britney. What's your response to that? I think we can argue that the same can be said about the conservatorship.

28:27Excuse me. It was intended to help her out maybe in the beginning, but we all saw what it turned out to be. And Brittany has spoken out many times about how it turned into something to suppress her and silence her for many years. She wasn't allowed to use her voice for 15 years.

28:47And yeah. Yeah. Sorry, I'm taken aback by Kevin's interview.

28:54Piers Morgan:In what way? He just said a lot of things that contradicted himself. He has spoken out many times over the years. He's spoken with DJ Vlad many times. He's sat, and I feel like every time we hear about him in the media, it is about Britney.

29:13He's spoken out in 2021 with Daphne Barak. the boys spoke out in that interview they talked about what they thought about their mother

29:24Wow

29:26Piers Morgan:Esther let me come to you what did you think of the interview with Kevin Peddler I think I agreed with only one thing that he said which was that the intention of the conservatorship while it was initially good I do think that there were problems I do agree with him there I find it completely ironic that he thinks the only way to save her is to flog a book, which he's undoubtedly going to get paid at the very least tens of thousands of dollars for. Now, if he said all the proceeds from the book, including the advance, would have gone to mental health charities, that's different. And he obviously knows Britney better than I do.

30:01And he thinks, if he thinks that the only way to get through to her at this point in her life is to go somehow public with the kind of story of their lives together, fine. I still think it's tacky. I think it's always tacky when a parent publishes a book on another parent and the parent of their children. But, you know, that's neither here nor there. But I think in terms of the conservatorship, it was kind of threw the baby out with the bathwater, ending it so abruptly. Now, we don't know all the kind of detail that the judge who imposed this conservatorship on Britney Spears, we don't know the information that they had.

30:34But clearly it was significant enough for them to impose a permanent one on her. So one indefinitely. I do think there are serious problems with the fact that her father was being paid$16 ,000 a month to be her conservator. I do think the fact that he got kickbacks from her tours in her residencies in Las Vegas is a horrible thing. You should absolutely not be paid for managing someone's estate if you're doing it in good faith, with the exception of, let's say, expenses. However, I do think there should be some sort of fiduciary oversight because she has worked so hard. And I think it would be a shame if, due to her mental health, she loses it all.

31:10What if tomorrow she becomes a Scientologist and decides to pay all her money to the Church of Scientology? We thank God that her last marriage, she had the good sense to sign a prenup. But she's worth over$60 million, allegedly. What if, you know, she gets involved with someone that takes advantage of her in that way? And I think, you know, the whole free Britney, freedom without competence is not freedom, it's just chaos. And so there has to be a middle ground here.

31:33Piers Morgan:Yeah, I mean, DJ Vlad, you know, the problem with the free Britney thing is that she doesn't seem very free to me. She seems extremely troubled, extremely damaged. And to hear Kevin Federline explain how both of their sons have stopped seeing her because they're so shocked by what happens when they go and see her, you know, that should be a wake-up call for everybody, that the logical way this ends is either going to be she gets help or we're going to wake up to a tragedy with Britney Spears. And, you know, I think he was genuine, that. You know, I don't know Kevin Federline, and maybe he's just scamming me with all this stuff, but you know him.

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32:44Piers Morgan:In one short call and a few questions, their experts will determine how much you can save. Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit tnusa.com slash peers. Let Tax Network USA help you before the IRS makes the next move. Well, I've interviewed him once. I think he was very transparent. Yeah, he was very transparent. I think that he was put in a position where he had no other choice but to get a divorce and ultimately the court sided with him in terms of giving him 100 % custody. I think the problem is that in society, women do this to men 99 % of the time. They marry a rich person, they have a couple of kids, they get divorced, they get a lot of alimony, a lot of child support and so forth and everyone applauds them and so forth but when a man does it with a rich woman he's the villain and this is what i think has been happening with kevin federline for years and years uh but ultimately he went to the courts and he got exactly what he deserved and the proof speaks for itself with the kids actually wanting to be with him and are actually troubled when they're around their mom right i mean javier that seems to me to be at the crux of this, you know, is that he's been a very good father to those boys.

33:58Piers Morgan:If he hadn't been a good father to those boys, I don't think any of us think that they would have had a comfortable existence if Britney had full control of them, because she doesn't seem in control of herself. Right. You know, I'll give it to Kevin. It seems like that he is a decent father, but nobody is buying his gaslighting just like nobody is buying his book. If there is one thing that you can unite every nation, it is the fact that Kevin Federline has always been a greedy bastard. He has just spent the last two decades exploiting every mistake that Britney Spears made so that he could maximize his millions of dollars in child support.

34:31Because if this were actually about him caring about Britney Spears, then why is he writing in his book about her alleged lesbian hookup? That information is irrelevant. If Britney wanted to get some nookie, Britney deserved to get some nookie. What does that have to do with her mental health today? And the real problem is there is a huge epidemic happening where the most prolific women in hollywood are being disempowered by these conservatorships from child support spousal support and having their platforms hijacked and kevin federline you're ultimately going to hell just like your book sales you know it's

35:01Piers Morgan:interesting uh i mean tyler you know go to hell is very similar to what we saw with the scene from the view when they celebrated so gleefully the divorce he's been this hate figure for 20 years and yet underneath it he's brought up these two boys and I do, as a father of three boys myself, I think about that and what it takes and I give him credit for that, right? Now, like I say, he might have been putting the wool over my eyes but I thought he came over authentically when he talked about wanting Britney to survive what he thinks clearly and his sons clearly think is a very dangerous time in her life where whatever they're seeing when they go and see her and they've now stopped was so shocking They don't even want to see it again.

35:43Piers Morgan:You know, if I was... If they weren't famous and it was just somebody I knew, I'd be incredibly concerned about what that means. So, you know, he could be a lot of things at the same time. He might be a bit greedy. He might have been someone who's tried to exploit his relationship with Britney. I'm sure all that is true. I'm sure he's taken money, to talk about it before. He's making money from this book. That doesn't automatically mean he doesn't care what happens to the mother of his sons. I agree with that. And also something to point out is that he leaked videos that the boys took of Britney a couple years back, intended to harm her, and it actually backfired on him.

36:21What people saw was a regular mother disciplining her children, but he took personal home footage of Britney and released it on his Instagram, trying to show her in a bad light that ultimately backfired on him. So he hasn't always painted himself in the best light either.

36:39Piers Morgan:No, I think that's right. But Esther, the one thing I did think he was right about, and I think everyone could agree, fame is a very insidious and damaging drug. And particularly when you're 16, as she was, when her first big hits were coming out. To be a 16-year-old kid and be propelled into pop superstardom, I've seen it with pop stars. I used to write a showbiz column for a big newspaper in the UK and I used to interview a lot of pop stars. and I saw them go up and I saw them crash down and I saw some appalling stuff. We saw one of one direction. You know, Liam Payne tragically loses life recently and that looked to me like somebody who was a victim of too much fame and with all the excess that it brings.

37:23Piers Morgan:And some people say, well, don't excuse them, it's their choice. It is, but they're very young. Again, I've had four kids. They're now 32 down to nearly 14, but I remember them all in their teenage years. The idea of giving them millions of dollars and allowing them unfettered access to booze and drugs and girls or whatever, or boys if they're female, whatever. You know, it's a recipe for disaster. Of course it is. But I think this is why when he says that, you know, she isn't surrounded by people that love her and that she needs to, you know, be surrounded by people that actually care for her.

38:02Well, you're writing a book about her. You're revealing the fact that she apparently had a lesbian affair. You are one of those people that are exploiting her. Yes, she may have had a hard start because she had all this fame and wealth when she was 16, and I do think that should be protected, but I think he is basically one of the leeches that he's accusing have taken advantage of her in her life. And yes, she is the mother of his children. He should also feel the need to protect her. He's going to gain nothing from this book. He's not going to help her get better. He's not going to help her get the mental health support or treatment that she needs.

38:30Piers Morgan:Well, so let's just take that... OK, that's an interesting point. Let me take that up with DJ Vlad. You know, I do... I'm not convinced, actually, that it may not help her. You know, sometimes the shock of all this being talked about publicly in the way it now is... And the book isn't doing very well, by the way, just to, you know, that point Javier made is completely correct. People aren't really buying it. However, it could lead to her getting the help she needs. And I don't think that's an impossibility here. I think one thing that people... I don't know. Sorry, that was for DJ Vlad. Sorry, Tyler.

39:04Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a possibility that she could get some help, but she's been in the media for decades at this point and everything has been brought forward. And she's had lots of people that really care about her try to help. And she is where she is. I think the timing of the book based on the child support ending about a year ago, I think it is what it is. I think that speaks for itself. I think the money is right now. and he's looking for the book for another source of income. And that just is what it is. I don't think you can really talk your way out of that one. By the way, does he have a job?

39:37But possibly he'll get some help, possibly not. I'm not sure.

39:43Piers Morgan:Yeah, no, I think I don't disagree. The timing of the end of the payments and doing the book is probably not unconnected. I would also say if he's done pretty much 100 % of the parenting with these two boys for 18, 19 years, Do I begrudge him a bit of money now that they've left and the money's stopped coming in? Not particularly. You know, people are very, very quick to defend Brittany from being a pretty awful parent for a long period of time to those boys, right? So, you know, again, is there a double standard there because she's the woman, he's the man? If it was reversed... Well, he was...

40:20I'm sorry. What if it was a man...

40:22Piers Morgan:Let me paint a picture for you, Esther. If it was a male pop star who had embarked on a pretty catastrophically self-harming, sustained period of many years of drug abuse and alcohol abuse and so on, to the extent that he got no custody of his kids, would we be vilifying the woman who they were with, who brought up the kids because they weren't capable? I'm not sure we would in the same way. But that's not what we're vilifying Kevin for. We're vilifying him after receiving$40 ,000 a month, allegedly, for about 15 years. But why shouldn't he? He was bringing those... I'm playing devil's advocate, but why shouldn't he get paid?

41:01Piers Morgan:If she's worth$50 million, why shouldn't he get$40 ,000 a month to bring up their children? I'm not disputing that. If she's incapable. I'm not sure I blame him for that. They're now adults. He's gained as much money as he possibly can from raising the kids and from being her ex-husband. That's enough. He has four other kids to raise. Maybe he should focus on that and get a job. Because I think with$40 ,000 a month, he's probably got a pretty good nest egg if he's been sensible with his money. I think... Well, I doubt... To be honest, I mean, Javier, I'll bring you in here. I doubt that, actually.

41:32Piers Morgan:You know, it sounds a lot of money until as he laid out where it goes. You know, all this kind of money to regular people sounds obscene, right? So let's just start from that. People hear 40 grand a month, they think, this is ridiculous, these people are super rich or whatever. But actually, if they're used to a certain lifestyle with their mum and blah, blah, blah, then I can understand how this money fritters away quite quickly. the point is he might be he might be all the negative things that you're collectively saying but it might also be that without him those kids would have had a pretty awful life and I'm not sure you can put a price on that I do think he's probably been a pretty good father I do think that's clear from what people have said about the way he's brought up those children I'd be interested to talk to them actually and get their side of this but when he said that they just don't want to see their mum because when they've been this year It's so shocking.

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42:56Wayfair, every style, every home. Yeah, I think multiple things can be true at once. I don't doubt that he is a decent father. Like I said, I don't know too much about his parenting, but I will say that it's very justified that he was getting child support, especially if he had full custody. But what I don't respect is that he's made a full-time career out of being Britney's ex and that he continues to exploit it in this way. If he was working on something, working on more hustles, working on building a brand or a company or something for himself to sustain his life after the child support, then that's fine.

43:28Piers Morgan:But you know what, Javier, I would say watching that scene at The View, which I think is pretty shocking when you look back at it now, when you're the most hated guy in America and you're Britney Spears' ex-husband and the father of her two kids, there's no escaping that. You're that forever. That was like a century ago. He was branded the biggest rat. He was branded the biggest rat in America. everyone gleefully celebrating his demise and he's like i'm not sure how you ever come back from that everybody's hiring there nobody if kevin federlein was walking down the street right now nobody would be checking for him we all forgot about him until he started putting this book out there respectfully so it's like he could have went and developed a life for himself that did none of you are criticizing britney spears i noticed which i find fascinating if it was the other way around if it was a male pop star, if their behaviour was considered non-conducive to raising their kids at all, right?

44:24Piers Morgan:I don't think you'd be so hasty in condemning the partner who brings them up and not condemning the parent deemed unfit for parenting. I don't think that's what it is. She was feeling mentally unwell. She's had loads of mental health struggles. And she's really worked very hard to overcome them. In the period of her conservatorship, She released two albums. She had multiple Vegas residencies. She was on, I believe, America's Got Talent. She did a lot for herself, and she really tried to prove herself. And in the middle of that... But do you really know, Esther? Do you really know, I mean, if you were with those kids when they visited their mum this year, can you be 100 % certain about what you think they saw?

45:04We know one sign of her career that she took seriously was her career.

45:06Piers Morgan:I remember supporting the... And her family. I supported... Listen, I supported the Free Britney thing, actually. I thought she should have been released and given her freedom. But I now regret that support, actually. I think... The trouble is, I don't know any of these people, so I only took it at face value. But there's very little evidence to me that her life has been improved by the so-called freedom that she got from the end of the Conservativeship. In fact, the opposite. And if what Kevin Federline says is true, then maybe he is a loathsome little, you know, money-grabbing rat. Maybe he's all those things.

45:41Piers Morgan:But maybe he also genuinely cares that the mother of his two kids doesn't do something terrible. And he clearly feels that she's on the edge. Tyler. I think something that people don't discuss enough with this situation is when therapy and doctors and all those types of people are forced upon you for 15 years, and then all of a sudden you get your freedom back, there's no care plan to get you back on track. how do you trust the people that were turned against you and forced upon you for years? Brittany has spoken out about... I'm going to bring Brittany's direct voice into this. Brittany has spoken out directly about that for the past couple of years, about how therapy was forced upon her.

46:24So what do you do in that situation? This situation has never really happened before on such a grand scale.

46:31Piers Morgan:Well, you know, I think ultimately... We've got to bring this to a close. It's been an interesting debate. I think ultimately we all just want her to be OK. Britney Spears is one of the most iconic pop stars of my lifetime. And at her best, she was like this incredibly fresh-faced, innocent, fantastically high-energy dancer, singer, performer, incredible talent. And it's just desperately sad to see where she now is. And like I said again, when I hear that the boys don't even want to be around her, that's just incredibly sad and worrying. and I hope she gets the help. And if, perversely, it takes Kevin Federline's book and his media tour around it, albeit if he's feathering his nest, fine, criticise him for that, but if ultimately it does lead to her getting the help she needs because he keeps telling people how desperate the situation is, it could end up being a good thing for her.

47:24Piers Morgan:We'll see. We will see. Got to leave it there. Thank you all very much. Pittsburgh on a sense that is proudly independent. The only boss around here is me. If you enjoy our show, we ask for only one simple thing. Hit subscribe on YouTube and follow Piers Morgan Uncensored on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. And in return, we will continue our mission to inform, irritate and entertain. And we'll do it all for free. Independent, uncensored media has never been more critical and we couldn't do it without you.

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