Kevin Federline Details Lead Up to Britney Spears' Head Shaving Incide

"It was the right thing to do," he reflected. "I couldn't let her see them. They wouldn't have understood why their mom was looking and acting so bizarrely, and I didn't want to scare them."

He alleged that it was then that his ex went to a nearby hair salon. 

"When the stunned stylist turned her down, Britney took matters into her own hands, grabbing an electric clipper and shaving her own head," he wrote. "Eventually, she drove down the street to a gas station."

"That's where things escalated, the infamous 'umbrella incident'—when she grabbed an umbrella and started swinging it at the paparazzi," he continued. "They were having a field day. The photos from that moment wound up everywhere—her shaved head, the wild look in her eyes."

Looking at those pics, the now-47-year-old posited that it was the "exact energy" the "Womanizer" singer had shown earlier at the front of his Tarzana, California, home.

He added, "Seeing those photos later, I thought: This is what I was dealing with."

Meanwhile, as details from Federline's memoir emerged, Spears' team fired back at her ex.

"With news from Kevin's book breaking," a rep for Spears told E! News Oct. 14, "once again he and others are profiting off her and sadly it comes after child support has ended with Kevin."

(Spears' child support payments to Federline ended when their youngest son turned 18.)

"All she cares about are her kids, Sean Preston and Jayden James and their well-being during this sensationalism," the message continued. "She detailed her journey in her memoir [The Woman in Me]."

Indeed, Spears—who had filed for divorce from Federline in 2006, citing "irreconcilable differences" as the reason—had shared insight into what she saw as an act of defiance.

"I'd been eyeballed so much growing up," she explained in her 2023 memoir. "I'd been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager. Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back."

The 43-year-old—who was ultimately hospitalized under a 5150 psychiatric ward following a series of seemingly erratic behavior—was then placed under a conservatorship. Thirteen years after Jamie Spears was granted guardianship of his eldest daughter, the arrangement was terminated following a month-long legal battle.

To see Britney through the years, read on.