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Britney Spears admitted that parenting her teenage sons has not been easy in a long-winded post on her Instagram account, shared on Wednesday.
The pop star, 40, who said the situation ‘breaks my heart,’ made her comments a week after ex Kevin Federline exclusively spoke to DailyMail.com about how his sons Sean, 16, and Jayden, 15, had chosen to stay apart from their mother.
The singer stated that her teenagers acted ‘hateful’ towards her during some of their visits and didn’t want to spend time together.
However, she also slammed Federline in a fiery claim, alleging that his household ‘has more weed than Ludacris, 50 Cent, Jay Z and Puff Daddy combined.’
Not easy: Britney Spears admitted that parenting her teenage sons has not been easy in a long-winded post on her Instagram account, shared on Wednesday
Spears added that her children’s indifference was frustrating, writing: ‘I want to shake their shoulders and say wake up I’m here too!!! The teenage age is weird, I don’t know what’s going on in their heads!!!’
She started out the four-page social media post discussing her new ‘adorable neighborhood’ and admitted that though her new home is beautiful, she misses her old house, adding, ‘It’s hard for me to let go of things I truly love… like my kids.’
The Criminal hitmaker then hit back at her ex for participating in the interview, saying: ‘The situation should have 100 percent been dealt with privately and definitely not online!!!’
Difficult: The pop star, 40, seemed to be responding to an exclusive DailyMail.com interview with her ex-husband Kevin Federline, 44, in which the dancer claimed that his sons Sean, 16, and Jayden, 15, had chosen to stay apart from their mother
She then defended her household while taking an issue with Kevin’s wife Victoria Prince, 39, and her ‘goal’ which is ‘to keep the children away from all of the controversy and trauma’ in Britney’s home.
‘I have love in my home and I have blessings from the people I allow in and out of my home,’ Britney stated.
The recently married singer went on to complain that she hasn’t been able to see her kids more frequently, despite trying.
‘I looked forward to seeing my kids every week… It was 2 days a week but I asked him to ask to stay for more days…. maybe 3… but then the next week they stayed for only one day.’
Fighting back: The singer stated that her teenagers acted ‘hateful’ towards her during some of their visits and didn’t want to spend time together, and that Federline’s household ‘has more weed than Ludacris, 50 Cent, Jay Z and Puff Daddy combined’
Frustrating: Spears added that her children’s indifference was frustrating, writing: ‘I want to shake their shoulders and say wake up I’m here too!!! The teenage age is weird, I don’t know what’s going on in their heads!!!’
‘Yeah, I know that teenagers are just hard to deal with with at that age… but COME ON, there’s being rude then there’s being HATEFUL… They would visit me, walk in the door, do straight to their room and lock the door!!!’ she wrote.
‘The MONITOR would tell me that he just likes to be in his room… I’m like why come visit if they don’t eve visit me!!!’
The Baby One More Time artist added that she was too afraid to speak up or say anything and kept silent, writing ‘It hurts and I want to scream!!!’
‘I can’t process how I dedicated 20 years of my life to those kids… everything was about them!!! For them to knock the breath out of me.’
‘We would always do prayer time, not really prayer time, that sounds silly but it’s called “devotion”… where you read two or three pages in a prayer book and talk about it.’
Private: The Criminal hitmaker then hit back at her ex for participating in the interview, saying: ‘The situation should have 100 percent been dealt with privately and definitely not online!!!’
Trying: The recently married singer went on to complain that she hasn’t been able to see her kids more frequently, despite trying
‘I always TRIED and TRIED and maybe that’s why they stopped coming here!!! I wanted them to love so much that I might have overdone it!!!’
‘This summer, they told me “we may come here less” and I was like that’s fine. I called they dad and I told him that it seems the boys are wanting to stop coming here as much, which I get because they have their own thing going on but I feel like they are being pretty harsh!!!’
‘His words were “I would never let them make that decision on their own… I would never do that to you”!!! Well after that, I haven’t seen them since!!!’