Britney Spears’ Cryptic 'Brain Damage' Confession Deepens Mystery Around Kevin Federline’s Explosive Claims
By Chukwudi Onyewuchi on October 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM EDT

Britney Spears has once again left fans concerned after posting a cryptic social media message claiming she suffered “brain damage.”
The post, which referenced the Disney film “Maleficent,” came just days after shocking allegations from her ex-husband Kevin Federline, who accused the pop star of disturbing behavior during their marriage.
Now, the timing of Spears’ emotional post has left many wondering if she was indirectly responding to Federline’s explosive new memoir.
Britney Spears Stuns Fans With ‘Brain Damage’ Confession
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Spears returned to Instagram on Sunday with one of her most shocking posts yet.
The singer shared a photo of herself riding a horse through the desert, wearing only white shorts, a dark hat, and what looked like a bra strap.
However, the caption, a long, emotional message referencing “Maleficent,” was what stunned her followers.
“My back… my blades… my wings… remember the movie Maleficent such an incredible movie!!!” she began.
Spears compared herself to the movie’s villain, who loses her wings, before adding, “I do feel like my wings were taken away and brain damage happened to me a long time ago 100 percent… I have of course moved on from that troubling time in my life and I’m blessed to be alive.”
Spears Opens Up About Hidden Pain And ‘Traumatic’ Past

In the same post, the 43-year-old appeared to reflect on the struggles she faced during her conservatorship, which lasted 13 years before ending in 2021.
Britney Spears referenced a “traumatic experience” mentioned in her memoir “The Woman in Me,” saying, “For four months I no longer had my private door and illegally was forced to not use my feet or body to go anywhere… it did more than hurt my body.”
“Trust me there’s a lot I didn’t share in my book,” Spears continued. “Still things at this very moment I’ve kept hidden because it’s incredibly painful and sad.” She also wrote, “I used to swim with my babies on my back till they were 4 and 5. I was incredibly strong.”
The mom of two said dancing and posting on Instagram had helped her “remember how to fly,” despite criticism from fans who called her behavior “disrespectful.”
Kevin Federline Claims Britney Spears Called Justin Timberlake Before Their Wedding

While the Princess of Pop poured her emotions out online, her ex-husband has been stirring controversy of his own.
In a new interview promoting his memoir “You Thought You Knew,” the 47-year-old alleged that Spears called her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake the night before their 2004 wedding.
Federline said they were staying at the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica when the “Toxic” crooner began crying on the phone.
“I thought she was talking to her mom,” he recalled per the Daily Mail, “but she told me she was on the phone with Justin.”
Spears reportedly explained that she wanted to “say her final piece” to Timberlake to close that chapter of her life.
“Damn, on the night before our wedding, this is what you decide to do?” Federline remembered thinking, admitting he took it “with a grain of salt.”
Despite the tension, the couple married the next day, but cracks in their relationship soon began to show.
Inside Federline’s Shocking Allegations About Their Sons

Federline’s memoir also makes chilling claims about Britney Spears’ behavior as a mother.
According to a report from The Blast, he wrote that their sons, Sean Preston and Jayden, were once afraid to visit her because of what they witnessed at home.
“They would awaken sometimes at night to find her standing silently in the doorway, watching them sleep — ‘Oh, you’re awake?’ — with a knife in her hand,” Federline wrote. “Then she’d turn around and pad off without explanation.”
He said he feared his ex-wife was “racing toward something irreversible,” adding, “The clock is ticking, and we’re getting close to the 11th hour. Something bad is going to happen if things don’t change.”
The dancer also described the night she was placed on psychiatric hold in 2008 as one of the hardest nights of my life, saying he felt “sick over what she was going through.”
Britney Spears’ Team Fires Back Amid Renewed Scrutiny

In response to Federline’s memoir, Spears’ representative accused him of trying to make money from the star now that child support payments have ended.
In a statement to Us Weekly, they revealed, “Once again he and others are profiting off her, and sadly it comes after child support has ended with Kevin. All she cares about are her kids, Sean Preston and Jayden James, and their well-being during this sensationalism.”
Still, the cycle of accusation and response continues. Federline insists he’s not attacking Spears but trying to help his sons have a relationship with their mother.
Yet for Spears, his claims reopen old wounds she has been fighting to heal.