Britney Spears‘ former bodyguard, Tony Barretto is making some explosive statements about his time spent with the troubled pop star. Among the allegations are claims that he feared Britney would harm her two children, Sean Preston and Jayden James.
“There was a time when I thought she was going to hurt the kids,” Barretto says, referring to Spears’ two young sons, Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1.
Barretto says at one point he and another member of the singer’s security team became concerned that Spears was “shutting down” like she had during her now-infamous head-shaving incident and might injure her two sons.
“He said she’d been talking about suicide then, and this was the same. Britney was sobbing. She screamed,” says Barretto. ” ‘I’m worried about the kids. Don’t let her go swimming with them.’ I asked, ‘Is she going to drown them?’ He said, ‘I don’t know.’ I started to cry. How am I supposed to protect someone like that?”
Barretto also talks about Britney’s drug use inside and outside the home, screaming bouts, depression and general neglect of the children.
“I was surprised to find how much the job involved looking after her kids,” he says.
“She was always passing the kids along to us. If they were happy, she was happy. If they weren’t happy, she was passing them on to the nanny or the security staff.
“We were the only family around her. She’d call a doctor to come out if they cried too much.
“She’d say: ‘Can you grab the baby, honey?’ She always called me ‘baby’ or ‘honey’. I don’t think she ever learned my name.
“She’d tell me, ‘We’re going for a tan. Can you take the baby?’ And then she’d walk off. She wouldn’t really ask me; she’d just leave.”
“There were times when she spent very little time with them, some days less than an hour. And she’s not very good at knowing whether they eat or need changing. I don’t think I ever saw her feed her kids at home.
Barretto seems to be acting out of genuine concern for Spears and her children.
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