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Leaked videos of britney telling off her kids

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Namingchangeschangingnames · 12/08/2022 12:52

Aibu in thinking it’s a horrid move by Kevin first of all but it’s just a mum frustrated with two teenage boys hardly scandal city?

ok the younger video she should have sworn they are 12 ish but it’s just her bringing some cream to put on their faces when they have a rash?

the second she took a phone off a 16 year old because he was walking shoeless bleeding in an ice cream shop in the snow?

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Badger1970 · 12/08/2022 12:57

I think neither really come out of this media spat with much grace.

There are always two sides to every side, and somewhere in between is the truth.

Thatswhyimacat · 12/08/2022 12:58

Yeah, i don't think the videos show Britney in a bad light at all. I'm glad we've moved past the 2007 misogynistic attitudes towards Britney and people seem to be supporting her in this.

Follow the money: Kevin has 3 families and relies on Britney's money to support all of them. Their kids are turning 18 in the next couple of years and his money is ending. Jamie Spears is about to be deposed for various potential crimes during the conservatorship and Kevin is obviously being recruited to help fire shots. Interestingly enough, the main issue is whether or not Britney was unlawfully surveillance. I wonder if this is part of a defence that their illegal surveillance was to protect the children.

It's disgusting that they seem to want to turn the boys against their mum and use them as a weapon to control her, again. Evil evil men they are.

Supersee · 12/08/2022 13:04

The money he gets off her that funds his house and lifestyle is coming to an end in the next couple of years. He is shitting it.

Bluffysummers · 12/08/2022 13:11

He leaked the videos as if he was unearthing some sort of sordid horrible abuse

its strange to say the least that he’s (k-fed) on Jamie spears’s side as didn’t he physically assault on of her sons which landed britney having her visitation limited and a restraining order from the son to JS?

KilljoysDutch · 12/08/2022 13:13

Supersee · 12/08/2022 13:04

The money he gets off her that funds his house and lifestyle is coming to an end in the next couple of years. He is shitting it.

You mean the child support she pays him for raising their children?

Bonheurdupasse · 12/08/2022 13:16

KilljoysDutch · 12/08/2022 13:13

You mean the child support she pays him for raising their children?

I don't see him funding half the house and life style..why not, aren't they his children too, should he not be half responsible for it as well?

Thatswhyimacat · 12/08/2022 13:17

@KilljoysDutch which is fair enough, although under the conservatorship, Kevin was being paid 40k a month to look after the kids when Britney herself was only allowed 10k.

I'm not saying he shouldn't have been paid, but the man has about 8 children and hasn't had to work a day since he met Britney, he doesn't pay child support for the kids he left to marry her, and yet because he takes care of his own kids for a handsome sum of money, he's apparently father of the year.

Supersee · 12/08/2022 13:25

You mean the child support she pays him for raising their children?

Yeah that money. It's coming to an end so he will have to support himself now 🤷‍♀️

Hugasauras · 12/08/2022 13:27

Most of the comments I've seen online concur that it's backfired and that it just shows a fairly normal exasperated mother in a couple of irritating scenarios with tricky teens/pre-teens. Hardly the home run he was hoping for I think.

Midlifemusings · 12/08/2022 13:50

He gets child support the exact same way as many women who had children with celebrities gets child support. Child support doesn't always cut off at 18 and often the wealthy parent also has to support college. By all accounts, he has been a pretty decent father to his 6 kids and has given them a stable home since 2008.

He posted the videos after she wrote a post saying the kids were hateful for not visiting. (I think).

I think the kids were mad they were being made out to be the wrong ones - given they have haven't had it easy at all. Britney is not well.

Would have been much better to just bite their tongues like they have from the last 15 years but as the kids get older they aren't going to put up with some of Britney's public comments about them. As teens, I am sure they get a lot of flack from peers for all the naked pics and deadeye dancing and ranting posts.

Bluffysummers · 12/08/2022 13:58

Midlifemusings · 12/08/2022 13:50

He gets child support the exact same way as many women who had children with celebrities gets child support. Child support doesn't always cut off at 18 and often the wealthy parent also has to support college. By all accounts, he has been a pretty decent father to his 6 kids and has given them a stable home since 2008.

He posted the videos after she wrote a post saying the kids were hateful for not visiting. (I think).

I think the kids were mad they were being made out to be the wrong ones - given they have haven't had it easy at all. Britney is not well.

Would have been much better to just bite their tongues like they have from the last 15 years but as the kids get older they aren't going to put up with some of Britney's public comments about them. As teens, I am sure they get a lot of flack from peers for all the naked pics and deadeye dancing and ranting posts.

Yeah her ranting doesn’t really come off well but on balance if you were never allowed to speak your mind, clear the air and forced to work against your will to line the pockets of others for more than a decade, i guess you’d have a lot of anger inside too, I know I would.

im not sure she’s actually IS unwell or ever really was, i don’t think there was ever a formal diagnosis

i recall reading she’d taken adderrall for years and that was one of things that was listed as to why she needed the conservatorship but then under it she was still being encouraged and told to use it because she performed better

Midlifemusings · 12/08/2022 14:14

Bluffysummers · 12/08/2022 13:58

Yeah her ranting doesn’t really come off well but on balance if you were never allowed to speak your mind, clear the air and forced to work against your will to line the pockets of others for more than a decade, i guess you’d have a lot of anger inside too, I know I would.

im not sure she’s actually IS unwell or ever really was, i don’t think there was ever a formal diagnosis

i recall reading she’d taken adderrall for years and that was one of things that was listed as to why she needed the conservatorship but then under it she was still being encouraged and told to use it because she performed better

She for sure has had a really difficult life too, and I get her anger however she has to manage it in a way that she doesn't take it out on her kids. She is clearly not well though - although it seems she is well enough to look after her own basic needs. She is very child like in many ways and seems to lack a mature or rational perspective on the world. I don't think the videos are any kind of smoking gun but they show an immature parent. Her kids have had to deal with alot, and Kevin and Victoria, in trying to protect them from the public onslaught in addition to having a celebrity parent who is mentally ill. Britney has some crazed fans who post and send really awful, hateful content to her sons for not being there to support her and for not wanting to live with her / spend time with her.

Neither Britney or her kids have had it easy and it is unfortunate to see them now both publicly snapping at each other.

Butitsnotfunnyisititsserious · 12/08/2022 14:17

Thatswhyimacat · 12/08/2022 12:58

Yeah, i don't think the videos show Britney in a bad light at all. I'm glad we've moved past the 2007 misogynistic attitudes towards Britney and people seem to be supporting her in this.

Follow the money: Kevin has 3 families and relies on Britney's money to support all of them. Their kids are turning 18 in the next couple of years and his money is ending. Jamie Spears is about to be deposed for various potential crimes during the conservatorship and Kevin is obviously being recruited to help fire shots. Interestingly enough, the main issue is whether or not Britney was unlawfully surveillance. I wonder if this is part of a defence that their illegal surveillance was to protect the children.

It's disgusting that they seem to want to turn the boys against their mum and use them as a weapon to control her, again. Evil evil men they are.

I don't think they do either.

Bluffysummers · 12/08/2022 14:50

Midlifemusings · 12/08/2022 14:14

She for sure has had a really difficult life too, and I get her anger however she has to manage it in a way that she doesn't take it out on her kids. She is clearly not well though - although it seems she is well enough to look after her own basic needs. She is very child like in many ways and seems to lack a mature or rational perspective on the world. I don't think the videos are any kind of smoking gun but they show an immature parent. Her kids have had to deal with alot, and Kevin and Victoria, in trying to protect them from the public onslaught in addition to having a celebrity parent who is mentally ill. Britney has some crazed fans who post and send really awful, hateful content to her sons for not being there to support her and for not wanting to live with her / spend time with her.

Neither Britney or her kids have had it easy and it is unfortunate to see them now both publicly snapping at each other.

yeah I do think she comes across as quite immature yeah but again given the circumstances, I think it’s quite understandable…

again, I’m not sure she’s actually ‘unwell’ or ever has been in the grave sense, even back in 2007/8, I think she was uncompliant and probably on the edge but pushed that way by horrendous circumstances. Don’t know if anyone has read women and madness by Phyllis Chesler but it really reminds me of that

she did lose her cool with the kids and wanting them to respect her as a grown woman but my guess would be a lot of that came from being infanticised as part of her conservatorship.

i do get though it can’t be easy for her sons, they were young when all of this kicked off but it’s been immortalised on the other Internet and with her naked pictures (which are a bit cringe) it must be tough for them, i can imagine they get teased.

but on her pics though, it’s not real different from the magazine covers she used to do at the height of her fame, except the pics are taken on her phone and she’s not in ‘as good shape’(obviously she’s 40 and has had 2 kids she still looks great).

MarshaMelrose · 12/08/2022 17:35

I don't see why KF shouldn't get child support. Obviously he gets a lot, $20,000 a month, because it's to ensure they have an equal quality if life at both homes. Not many people can generate that amount of income and KF is certainly not one of them. So he'd never be able to provide 50% himself. I don't believe people get so nasty towards wives who receive large child support amounts from wealthy husbands.
When it comes to an end in 3 years, he'll have to fund himself. I don't understand why this exercises people's minds.

The videos were taken by his children. He didn't leak them. He published them openly. I have absolutely no idea why he did that. Yes, Britney overreacted but nothing very serious. I don't see the point. It feels vindictive. And it obviously they didn't affect the boys because the videos were taken 5 years ago and the boys have been going to hers regularly until earlier this year. It's weird.

However, I don't agree with Britney writing on Instagram that her boys are hateful and correcting that she loves them down to likes them. It feels like there's a lot more going on than 5 year old shoes and cream for the boys to not want to go to hers and refusing to see her. And if they've asked her not to put naked photos of herself on Instagram, I'd think it would be respectful of her to think about their feelings.

Supersee · 12/08/2022 17:47

I don't think anyone is disputing he shouldn't get child support (I'm not) but the fact of the matter is that (vast) child support has enabled him to not work and raise his other kids for years and to live in a nice house, and it's going to come to an end at some point. Why should she continue to pay him when they are adults? I'd say the same if the sexes were reversed. He's going to have to find income some other way.

Her money or what's left of it must be rapidly decreasing as she hasn't toured or made new music in years, and will all the legal bills she not only had to fund for herself but for her dad and his camp too.

MarshaMelrose · 12/08/2022 18:02

Supersee · 12/08/2022 17:47

I don't think anyone is disputing he shouldn't get child support (I'm not) but the fact of the matter is that (vast) child support has enabled him to not work and raise his other kids for years and to live in a nice house, and it's going to come to an end at some point. Why should she continue to pay him when they are adults? I'd say the same if the sexes were reversed. He's going to have to find income some other way.

Her money or what's left of it must be rapidly decreasing as she hasn't toured or made new music in years, and will all the legal bills she not only had to fund for herself but for her dad and his camp too.

Who's saying that he's going to get or should get child support indefinitely. Ive never read that. I don't know their divorce and child custody agreement as to whether it ends at 18 or if there's something in place til they're 21, so after HE has finished. But ultimately it will end. Of course it's a lot. But it's in line with other child custody cases of millionaires. What does it matter what happens to him when the child support stops? He could be evicted and live in a skip. I don't see the relevance of that to him getting child support to provide for their children.

I don't think you need to worry about Britney going bankrupt. A conservative estimation of her assets, including investments and properties, is $60m. And, remember, she can now negotiate her own tours,and residencies. So I'm pretty sure her future doesn't include living in that skip with Kevin.

Grapewrath · 12/08/2022 18:06

KF trying to make as much as he can because he won’t get child support forever.
The videos are no worse than you’d see in many many homes where people are parenting teens
Britney is clearly still unwell and needs the right support after many years of trauma

Supersee · 12/08/2022 18:10

@MarshaMelrose my point is he needs to find a new way to make money. And it wouldn't be surprising if it involves exploiting Britney and her obvious issues for money. It looks like that's already begun.

MarshaMelrose · 12/08/2022 18:12

my point is he needs to find a new way to make money. And it wouldn't be surprising if it involves exploiting Britney and her obvious issues for money. It looks like that's already begun.

Well, clearly suppositions have begun.

I don't think releasing 2 videos is going to keep him out of that skip! He'll have to do better than that.

PollyRockets · 12/08/2022 18:14

Why is it always Kevin getting it in the neck

She has been posting shit about the kids for years, he has finally retaliated and gets the scorn

Supersee · 12/08/2022 18:19

MarshaMelrose · 12/08/2022 18:12

my point is he needs to find a new way to make money. And it wouldn't be surprising if it involves exploiting Britney and her obvious issues for money. It looks like that's already begun.

Well, clearly suppositions have begun.

I don't think releasing 2 videos is going to keep him out of that skip! He'll have to do better than that.

No but why now. They have been sitting on these videos for ages. It's understandable that her videos are embarrassing for her sons, but she's also been a cash cow for so many for years now, I can see why she is the way she is, and she's clearly a very angry and probably mentally unwell person still.

Itsgettinghotinhre · 12/08/2022 18:26

Britney seemed well put together back in the days. There's no denying she has done very well. Having your kids to the wrong man can lead you in hot water.

Anyone one of us could be labelled as crazy and unwell. What drove her to that point though? And so much for her family!

Bustq · 12/08/2022 18:34

I watched them, they’re really not that bad. She just seems like a mother who is struggling to control her rude teens. Pretty normal stuff.

Awful that they were shared.

She shouldn’t have talked about her children not visiting on an Instagram post - but this hit back was much worse and makes K F look really bad.

barms90 · 12/08/2022 18:52

She talked about her kids on internet in reply to an interview he gave saying the kids haven't been to her house in a month or something. Why did he open this can of worms in the first place????

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