Kevin Federline Joins The Show!

Following the release of his book, Kevin Federline talks about setting the record straight while being married to pop star Brittany Spears and how it has affected their kids' lives. Listen as he explains why this is the right time to tell his side of the story. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, this is happening. This is gonna be so crazy.
I am very excited to be talking to our next
guest who has written a brand new tell all book
called You Thought You Knew? And this is going to
be explosive, he joins us. Right now. Kevin Fetterline joins
us this morning. What's going on, Kevin?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
How you guys doing? Man?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
We're good, dude. Hey, can I still call you k Fed?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Man? You can call me whatever you want?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Awesome? Listen, k Fed. We we have been fans of
yours for a really long time. I mean from way
back to the you know, the TV show, to Popo
Zal to the whole thing. Man. So we we are
pumped to be talking to you for so many different reasons.
Obviously the book, though the book is is is so explosive.
Everybody's talking about it. What finally made you decide? You

(00:51):
know what? I'm writing this thing and I got to
put it out there?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, I mean, look, I've always wanted people to know
who I am, especially whenever you got everybody else telling
your story for you. It's kind of you know, I
think anybody would want to But I mean time and
staying quiet for so long hoping that a situation would turn,
you know, for the better, and then also waiting for

(01:17):
my kids to be old enough to understand why I'm
doing this and get behind it. That's that is it.
That's that's what brought us to the twenty year time spent.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Okay, so what point did you notice? Obviously you were
divorced from Brittany, But what point did you notice something's
not right here, something isn't really adding up with her behavior.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
I don't know. I would say they were looking back,
And I think I say this in the book. You
know that there were signs throughout our relationship, but I mean, really,
what when it came to a head was the night
of my album release party and and you know, walking in,
catching her and her friends just doing drugs, and then

(02:06):
you know, tweeting with her not to go home and
breastfeed Jaden. Okay, that was that was the That was
the like, I need to like put my foot down moment.
And and when I did that, I got a drink
thrown in my face and basically knew at that moment
that she was done listening to me.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, So has it always been substance issues or is
it mental health? Issues or a combination of both.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
I mean, look, I'm not a doctor. I think it
is a combination. But right now, like current day, for me,
obviously I'm very sensitive to her mental health, but at
the same time, the most important thing for me is
the addiction. Right now.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well, I mean, obviously we see everything kind of play
out on her you know, social media, and we're seeing
these you know, wacky dance videos with her, you know,
flinging knives around and doing all these things, and it
just doesn't look right. It doesn't look like she's mentally stable.
And so you know, if she's putting it out there

(03:15):
and we're all seeing it, it's not the craziest thing
in the world to go, well, something's wrong there, right.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's right, that's right. And I feel like that's why,
you know, I'm out here crying for help, you know,
trying to get some support for my kids and her family,
people that have been vilified by Free Brittany and you
know this whole wall that's been created around her to
block anybody that actually cares about her.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah, And that was going to be my question to you, Kevin, like,
how did you feel during that free Britney moment? Because
I think we all like have known somebody in our
life that people are like this person's great, we love them,
they're wonderful, but you're like, that's you don't know the
real person. Like in San Diego, people were hanging banners
from their balcony saying free Brittany, Like, how did you

(04:08):
feel seeing all.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
That go down?

Speaker 2 (04:11):
I mean, you know, I was worried that it would
create this exact situation, right, I mean, it's it's really
hard whenever somebody that actually cares, that's inside the bubble
so to speak, and is trying to help, it becomes
a villain and pushed out, you know. And I mean

(04:33):
that's the whole thing with addiction, right, Like one of
the first things that you do is push away everybody
that cares about you, anybody that's going to try and
get you help or or try to be the voice
of reason. You don't want to hear it.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
So that kind of leads into what I was going
to ask, is like, who's When I watch your videos,
I'm looking at them, going who's there. There's got to
be this giant house, She's got to have people there,
Like does she have cleaning staff? Does she have somebody
cooking her? Is does she have an assistant? Or is
it just an ever revolving door? People, because nobody because
like you said, she wants to be told yes, like

(05:06):
does she have a team there?

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah? Well and that's it like the you know, I
do talk about that in my book as well. Right
like it's it is a revolving door. I don't know
where it is right now, but I know that there's
there are people around and and you know, it's it's
tough because it's like you're on payroll, so you know,

(05:28):
what right do you have to step in? But it's like,
I don't know. For me, it's a for the people
that are around her right now, is a scary situation,
especially if you look at Matthew Perry's situation because look
at what happened to his assistant. He's in jail.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah wow, yeah, that's crazy. Well, Kevin, you know, obviously
the most important thing in all of this is your kids.
It sounds like you're a great dad. It sounds like
you're doing everything you can to protect them and do
the right thing by them. Where are they at with
a relationship with their mom? I know that they haven't
seen her in a really long time, and they're not

(06:02):
really part of her life right now. Where are they at?
Are they like wanting to get her help as well?
Or where are they at?

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah? I mean, look, you know I think that you know,
everything has been tried, right, Like everything that could be
tried has been tried, and now since there's never really
been any accountability, I think that the next step is
this like bringing the truth forward and hoping that it

(06:31):
like wakes something up in her because the only person
that's going to be able to help her now is herself.
Like she has to ask for help and she has
to admit that she needs it. And you know, for
my kids, it's hard for them because they do want
to have a relationship with their mother, and that's part
of why I'm doing what I'm doing is to try
and get some get something to click, to get that

(06:53):
back right because they do. I mean, then they do
talk and they have a community medication, but not the
relationship that they deserve, right, Like every kid wants to
have their mother there, wants to have that relationship with
their mom. And it's really hard for me because I

(07:15):
have such a great relationship with my mother and my
family has been so incredible in raising us and it's
part of who I am and the reason why I
am the way I am is so much because of
my family. I talk about this in my book as well,
right like that, I had a great foundation and for
me to watch my kids go through what they've had

(07:35):
to go through and know that they're, you know, screaming
for that relationship with their mom. I mean that's been
the really difficult part of all this.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, no doubt about it. And the book sounds wildly fascinating,
you know, real look into what's been going on with
Brittany and you and the kids and everything, and can't
wait to check it out. It's called you thought you
knew it's by Kevin Federline. You definitely want to check
it out and read it. Kevin. We appreciate your time
and your stories and keep fighting the good fight.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Man.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
It sounds like it's all good stuff. Man.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Thank you guys so much.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
I appreciate you absolutely. There you go. Kevin Fetterline, the
ex husband of Britney Spears,