Britney Spears’ husband Sam Asghari is speaking out in support of his wife, days before TMZ aired a new documentary examining the pop star’s life since she was freed from her conservatorship in November 2021.
TMZ’s documentary titled “Britney Spears: The Price of Freedom” aired on Fox Monday night and alleges Spears’ mental health is turbulent, that she poses a physical danger to herself and Asghari and that she hasn’t spoken with her children Sean Preston Federline, 17, and Jayden Federline, 16, in over a year.
USA TODAY has reached out to representatives for Spears for comment.
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Without mentioning the TMZ documentary specifically, Asghari, who wed Spears in June 2022, accused people of exploiting his wife’s struggles in the media.
“The last thing I want to do is speak on my wife’s behalf,” Asghari said on his Instagram Story Sunday, reuploaded onto Twitter by the account @PopCrave. “I would never do that. I respect her privacy. That’s why I don’t talk as much, and I find it absolutely disgusting for the people that were in her life at the time, when she didn’t have a voice, they went and told her story like it was theirs.”
He continued: “How are you going to take the most influential person of our generation, the princess of pop, America’s sweetheart and put her in prison where her father tells her what to do… Now you’re going to put her under a microscope and tell her story? No.”
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Asghari also told people not to believe what they read about Spears online, which he described as clickbait “99% of the time.”
TMZ’s documentary featured interviews with Dr. Charles Sophy, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Kevin Federline’s attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan and reporters from TMZ, who relayed information from unnamed sources. The physicians have not treated Spears.
Spears and Asghari got engaged in September days after Spears’ father Jamie filed a petition with a Los Angeles judge seeking to end the pop star’s conservatorship, a legal arrangement that gave him control over her estate since 2008.
Legally, Spears could have gotten married, but under the conservatorship (which was terminated in November 2021 after 13 years), the wedding had to be approved as with other major life decisions.
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Contributing: Naledi Ushe
