Looking at headlines last week, you’d be forgiven if you thought it was 2007: “Britney Spears Calls Out Kevin Federline’s ‘Lies,’” “Kevin Federline Details Britney Spears’s Alleged Drug Use,” “Inside Britney Spears and Kevin Federline’s All-Out War.” Federline, Spears’s backup-dancer ex-husband and father of her children, Jayden and Preston, has returned to the public eye to promote his new tell-all memoir, You Thought You Knew , which paints a vivid portrait of Spears as a mentally unstable and unfit mother.
In the book, Federline alleges that Spears used cocaine while breastfeeding and drank alcohol while pregnant. He also accuses her of behaving inappropriately with her youngest son, insisting that they bathed together even when he was as old as 10; screaming at her sons that she