- Kevin Federline says that the night before he married Britney Spears, the singer called her ex, Justin Timberlake.
- Federline said that Spears justified the call by saying that she wanted to say her “final piece” to Timberlake.
- He also opined that Spears was “not over” her relationship with Timberlake at the time.
Kevin Federline says that Britney Spears spent the night before their 2004 wedding on the phone with ex Justin Timberlake.
“The night before our wedding, we’re at the Fairmont in Santa Monica, in one of the bungalows, and I was like, ‘What’s wrong?'” Federline said during an interview with Entertainment Tonight published Tuesday. “I thought she was talking to her mom on the phone, or something. Maybe she was having doubts.”
Federline said he was shocked by Spears’ admission: “She told me she was on the phone with Justin, and I just kinda stepped back like, ‘Did I just hear you right? What the hell is going on?'”
Representatives for Spears and Timberlake did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly‘s request for comment.
The rapper, also known as K-Fed, made the comments about Spears ahead of the release of his memoir, You Thought You Knew. A representative for Spears previously slammed Federline for the book in a statement to EW.
“With news from Kevin’s book breaking, once again he and others are profiting off her and sadly it comes after child support has ended with Kevin,” the representative said. “All she cares about are her kids, Sean Preston and Jayden James and their well-being during this sensationalism. She detailed her journey in her memoir.”
Spears published her memoir The Woman in Me in 2023.
Federline said that he “immediately” offered Spears an exit plan.
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“Okay, we don’t have to do this,” he recalled telling the singer. “I didn’t care if we got married or not, and she told me ‘No.'”
The rapper said that he was initially convinced by Spears’ explanation for why she called Timberlake.
“[She said] ‘I just wanted to make sure that everything is done. I want to make sure that I say my final piece,'” he recalled. “I’m like, ‘Damn, on the night before our wedding, this is what you decide to do?’ So I kind of, at the time, took it with a grain of salt and took her explanation as, ‘Okay, maybe she is closing a chapter of her life.'”
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When asked if he thought Spears was still in love with Timberlake at the time of the call, Federline responded, “In love, I’m not sure. But not over it.”
Spears and Timberlake costarred on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club as children. In The Woman in Me, Spears said she had an abortion while dating the “Take Back the Night” singer because “he didn’t want to be a father” and accused Timberlake of cheating on her multiple times during their relationship, which lasted from 1999 to 2002.
After marrying in 2004, Spears and Federline had Sean Preston and Jayden James, and ultimately divorced in 2007.
Watch Federline’s full ET interview above.
