RIP To Britney Spears Dancing On Instagram. The Pop Icon Has Deactivated Once Again After Some Troubling Posts About Brain Damage And Calling Out Her Ex Kevin Federline For "Gaslighting Her" In His Recent Memoir

Devlin11/06/2025 8:45 PM

(People) - Britney Spears deleted her Instagram account amid a number of worrying posts and a public dispute over her ex-husband Kevin Federline’s memoir. On Sunday, Nov. 2, Spears’ Instagram account was no longer available to view, and a message stated her “profile may have been removed.”

A video Spears shared to social media on Oct. 7 showed her with bruises on her arms and bandages wrapped around her hands and wrists. In the caption, Spears explained that she had fallen down stairs and wrote about her two sons traveling back to Hawaii, where they reside with Federline, 47. “My boys had to leave and go back to Maui,” she wrote, before opening up about why she shares her dancing clips. “This is the way I express myself and pray through art … father who art in heaven … I’m not here for concern or pity, I just want to be a good woman and be better … and I do have wonderful support, so have a brilliant day !!!” She continued, "Psss I fell down the stairs at my friend’s house … it was horrible. It snaps out now and then, not sure if it’s broken but for now it’s snapped in !!! Thank u god."

In a more recent Instagram post shared on Oct. 19, the pop superstar seemed to open up about spending four months in rehab in 2018 while under a 13-year conservatorship and the impact it's had on her life. In the post, she claimed “brain damage happened to me.” Spears posted a photo of herself riding a horse and compared her shoulder blades to "wings" in the caption, before writing about the film Maleficent. "Remember the king tried to kill her but instead a guy secretly took her wings but anything from the father in heaven the real father whom is the one I only claim who loves unconditionally… anything holy is never forgotten," she wrote. "Her wings were holy so the king couldn’t take them not one person could say they were restored and hidden locked in a secret holy stain glass church…not that this has any relevance with me but I do find it incredibly interesting…" The singer then spoke about enduring a "traumatic experience" that she says she wrote about "at the end" of her 2023 memoir, The Woman in Me, "where for 4 months I no longer had my private door and illegally was forced to not use my feet or body to go anywhere."

Sadly it's another unfortunate update for legendary pop star, Britney Spears. Look I'm all for taking breaks off social media but this one feels a little more serious than usual. Hard to say whether that conservatorship getting lifted was the best thing for her after all? Who watches The Watchmen ya know? And although she's deactivated her IG before I think it's fair to worry about her well being at this point.

Other than caring for her kids, those bikini dances in the living room seemed like one of the only things keeping her tethered to earth, for better or worse. Damn.

Britney Spears has a history of deactivating or temporarily deleting her Instagram account. She first did so in September 2021, shortly after thanking freebritney supporters, and again in December 2022 following some posts, returning later each time. In January 2023, she explained one deactivation was due to feeling hurt by negative comments on her dancing videos. Most recently, in November 2025, her account appears to have been deactivated once more, continuing her pattern of taking breaks from social media.

She is still going strong on Twitter & TikTok, so maybe it's not a five alarm fire after all? But the recent memoir from her shitty ex-husband Kevin Federline can't be helping the vibes either. How the FUCK did that weasel ever pull Britney in her prime? DAMN.

The constant gaslighting from ex-husband is extremely hurtful and exhausting. I have always pleaded and screamed to have a life with my boys. Relationships with teenage boys is complex. I have felt demoralized by this situation and have always asked and almost begged for them to be a part of my life. Sadly, they have always witnessed the lack of respect shown by own father for me. They need to take responsibility for themselves. With one son only seeing me for 45 min in the past 5 years and the other with only 4 visits in the past 5 years. I have pride too. From now on I will let them know when I am available. Trust me, those white lies in that book, they are going straight to the bank and I am the only one who genuinely gets hurt here. I will always love them and if you really know me, you won’t pay attention to the tabloids of my mental health and drinking. I am actually a pretty intelligent woman who has been trying to live a sacred and private life the past 5 years. I speak on this because I have had enough and any real woman would do the same.

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To be loved unconditionally and with a naive heart like mine, always being threatened or made to believe I'm the bad one as they profit off my pain… Oh dear Jesus show me there is a God and I can too be loved unconditionally and not have to be so perfect cause it's really interesting. I 100 percent beg to differ the way he is literally attacking me in his interviews. If truth be told the man in the interview went STRAIGHT TO the SOURCE and said it CLEAR AS DAY … no money from Britney for 5 years you trying to get paid that's what general America is saying weird you both have moved on… your kids are adults it's a different world now … why is HE SO ANGRY … and what's scary is he’s convincing. It literally blows my mind the moments he stops before he cries are you fucking serious … I know his book will sell loads more than mine. If you really love someone then you don’t help them by humiliating them. What scared me was how serious and angry he got, people have no idea, it is way worse than anyone could imagine… the boy hates me and it is deep anger to literally say the things he is saying. As my mother cleverly says, “Oh you’re angry, we just love you so much and wish you were here” … I’m like, WHAT? You called me one time in 6 years and why didn’t you invite me to my son’s bday in Louisiana in my home for 2 weeks? They get entitled with special secrets as they treat me exactly the way my father used to… yes, they secretly love to cast me out and make me feel completely isolated. So, in resolution, guess what I did my friends? I bought myself a miniature green house made of all glass… it has a beautiful stained glass picture above the door… it is the mini house of healing… I do need healing and I’m starting tomorrow on it… nope not growing weed … lavender, rosemary, eucalyptus, and miniature shelves. Freeze your favorite flowers in the refrigerator— I’m serious, the smell stays potent rich and strong. Gardenias are unbelievable, sage, peppermint, chamomile, tea tree —there are so many! I’m gonna get real dirty in there with all the dirt, but I don’t care I’m honestly liberated and so damn blessed it arrived!!! There are so many things to do to heal… I feel like just general contact and communication with people. My birthday wish is not to fly anywhere this year… I want to have coffee, lunch, or dinner with Michelle Pheiffer and Paris Jackson. It is important to look up to people and still believe in humanity, and there are extremely cool beautiful people here. I will start acting, doing real columns monthly not about me stuff. People are never supposed to talk about controversy shocking topics … I might even start my own radio podcast. And thank you to the people supporting my heart right now I know you guys understand it hurts and Perez Hilton you are absolute adorable and you made my heart smile !!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean that meme with all due respect, but goddamn that is A LOT of words. It's certainly heart breaking to see any parent struggle to connect with their kids, but in this case I think Britney could've sent a much simpler retort to sum up how she feels about Lil Kev.

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I'm not saying Britney has it all figured out, but there's no way I'll ever take his side in all of this. So it's forever FUCK Kevin Federline, all my homies hate Lil Kev. Plus let's be real, she's one of the most influential & entertaining stars pop culture has ever seen. Not to mention the leading scientist who launched my puberty into orbit. And I can't be alone in that endeavor. ICON.

So let's look past the drama for now and just give thanks for all the memories. Send some good vibes into the universe for Ms. Spears. She's earned that in spades. Hopefully she's already chilling out somewhere raking a zen garden and laughing all the way to the bank in her favorite bikini. Fingers crossed she returns to the IG dance floor someday.

Truly the well adjusted, definitely not mentally ill hero we need AND deserve. She's not wearing hockey pads. But do ya know why she uses a kniiiiife? I like that.