Britney Spears is being slammed by her ex-husband Kevin Federline’s former fiancée for claiming she had no idea he had a baby on the way when they first got together.
The Grammy-winning singer, 41, has sons Sean Preston, 18, and Jayden James, 17, with former backup dancer Kevin, 45, to whom she was married from 2004 to 2007, and says in her new memoir The Woman in Me she was not a homewrecker when they got together as she was “clueless” he was having a second child with singer Shar Jackson, now 47.
“When Kevin met Britney we had three kids and one on the way and we were living in a six-bedroom house in Orange County, California,” Jackson told the Daily Mail.
Federline and Jackson had one child together, a daughter named Kori, but he also helped raise her two kids from a previous relationship.
“One day, when I had bad morning sickness and was about six months pregnant, Kevin had an audition for a Coke commercial or something in LA… then I didn’t hear from him for three days,” Jackson said.
She said she then found out Federline and Spears had met the first night he disappeared, adding: “I felt angry and betrayed and I went numb. I went [on] autopilot.”
In her memoir, Spears says as soon as she found out about Federline’s other family she confronted him by saying: “You have kids? You have children? Not only one child but two children?”
She claimed a close friend told her the information once she had already been with him for “a while.” But Jackson insists the singer was fully aware, and claimed the performer even waited outside the Orange County hospital as Kevin watched his second child, a son named Kaleb being born.
Federline had a baby on the way with Shar Jackson when he started dating Spears in 2004. He’d been engaged to singer Jackson, 47, and had daughter Kori with her in 2002.
Jackson then gave birth to their son, Kaleb, shortly after the former backup dancer began seeing Spears.
Federline’s love triangle made headlines at the time and Jackson came forward to claim they had still been together when he moved on with Spears.
Jackson says she doesn’t hold a grudge against Federline, and said: “I think [Britney’s] relationship with Kevin was a fantasy for both of them. I never hated Kevin because if you really love someone you can’t hate them.”
