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Britney Spears’ first husband Jason Alexander claims her team ‘misled’ him into agreeing to annulment of 55 hour marriage
Britney Spears’ marriage to Jason Alexander was annulled after 55 hours (Picture: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
Britney Spears’ ex-husband Jason Alexander has spoken out to claim he was misled by her team into agreeing to sign an annulment ending their marriage.
Jason, who famously married Britney in Las Vegas in 2004 before their union was annulled just 55 hours later, claimed that he was given the impression that they would stay together and marry ‘properly’ in future if he signed the papers.
He said on the podcast Toxic: The Britney Spears Story: ‘They told me if I would sign the contracts – the annulment – they would let me and Britney continue our relationship, and if we felt the same way in six months they would give us a proper marriage.
‘So I had no reason to believe otherwise. I thought that’s what the truth was. They were allowing Britney and I to still have phone communication.
‘So we were talking every day and I still believed the story I was told, that they were going to let us continue to talk and then we would have this marriage, right, in the future if we felt the same way.’
Jason claims that when he tried to contact Britney after 30 days, the line had been disconnected, adding: ‘Literally the day after, like, the 30 days was up, I remember trying to call the number I had for Britney and it was like, “Beep, beep, beep [like it had been disconnected]”.
Britney and Jason married at 4am in Las Vegas (Picture: SplashNews.com)
‘I’m like, “F**k, they got me! Motherf**ker!” So that was it.’
Jason had appeared on the podcast after travelling to Los Angeles to take part in a Free Britney rally amid her ongoing battle to remove her conservatorship.
It comes after Britney celebrated a judge granting her the right to appoint her own lawyer in her conservatorship case, after her court-appointed representative, Sam Ingham, resigned.
She posted a video of her riding a horse and cartwheeling as she wrote: ‘Coming along, folks … coming along !!!!! New with real representation today … I feel GRATITUDE and BLESSED !!!!
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‘Thank you to my fans who are supporting me … You have no idea what it means to me be supported by such awesome fans !!!! God bless you all !!!!! Pssss this is me celebrating by horseback riding and doing cartwheels today !!!! #FreeBritney.’
The Toxic star has been campaigning for the end of the rule, which she has been under since 2008 after her public breakdown, allowing her to regain control over her personal and financial decisions after 13 years.
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