Sam Asghari slammed TMZ’s “disgusting” TV special about his wife, Britney Spears, ahead of its release Monday evening.
“I found it absolutely disgusting for the people who were in her life when she didn’t have a voice, they went and told her story like it was theirs,” Asghari began in a video posted to his Instagram Story Sunday night.
“It was absolutely disgusting.”
The personal trainer-turned-actor then recalled the “Toxic” singer’s treatment under her former conservatorship, during which she had no control over her life.
“How are you going to take the most influential person of her generation, the Princess of Pop, America’s sweetheart, and put her in prison where her father [Jamie Spears] tells her what to do, what water to drink, who to see and use her as a money-making machine?” Asghari asked his viewers.
Asghari, 29, took aim at the outlet for putting Britney, 41, “under the microscope” when she is finally free from her family and management’s control and encouraged readers not to fall for “clickbait” stories.
“All of a sudden — after 15 years when she’s free after all those gaslighting, all those things that went down — now you’re going to put her under a microscope and tell her story?” he asked, rhetorically.
“No, no, that’s also disgusting, so don’t do that, and don’t believe what you read online,” Asghari continued.
“Ninety-nine percent of the time those are all clickbait [stories] for you to click and for them to make money, and that time is over.”
Asghari concluded his video, which since has been deleted, by saying all of the “gaslighting and s–t” has to stop.
The “Hacks” alum’s post came hours before TMZ published a story claiming his and Britney’s marriage, which began in June 2022, is already in “deep trouble.”
The outlet further alleged the “Sometimes” singer has gotten physical with her husband during screaming matches and that he no longer spends much time at their house.
A previously released clip from the special claimed Britney was hooked on caffeine and would stay awake for days at a time, but she later responded with an Instagram post shooting down the report.
“My mind gets busy and sometimes that can be an easy target to mess with
