3 Times Britney Spears Compared Justin Timberlake To Kevin Federline In Her Memoir

Britney Spears’ connection with Kevin Federline and Justin Timberlake wasn’t the only similar aspect of the two relationships. Spears’ memoir points out that both men were allowed to behave in ways that she wasn’t. As she struggled to raise two young children while battling severe postpartum depression, Spears said she felt like everyone was allowed to live their lives without condemnation but her.

“I was being watched from every corner,” she wrote. “Justin and Kevin were able to have all the sex and smoke all the weed in the world, and no one said one word to them. I came home from a night at the clubs, and my own mother tore into me. It made me scared to do anything. My family made me feel paralyzed.”

Spears said she would seek solace from this pressure with friends who distracted her by taking her out partying, which led to the singer being a fixture in the tabloids alongside other young socialites like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. But, the singer argues, “It was never as wild as the press made it out to be” (via the New York Times), no matter what the Spears vs. Timberlake/Federline camps had to say about it.