The National Enquirer has all the details on what actually went down at Britney Spears’ family home last weekend. Britney’s son Jayden was hospitalized with what was initially reported to be a seizure, and then turned out to be a food allergy. Earlier in the afternoon the family had picked up some fried chicken from a fast food restaurant, and they claim Jayden had a reaction to that, but both the Enquirer and Star say it was a shellfish reaction brought on by some cajun crawfish that Jayden’s grandfather Jamie had cooked that afternoon. The Enquirer has more details about what went on that afternoon:
Dad Jamie, a first-rate cook, had prepared a southern-style Sunday dinner with all the fixings, and everyone was getting ready to eat. But as the hungry family gathered at the table, Jayden didn’t respond to calls to join them, says the source. “Jayden didn’t answer back. His grandmother Lynne went running to get him, followed by Britney. They found him in the living room, sitting near the sofa – limp and unresponsive.
“He couldn’t talk or look at anyone who was speaking to him. It was as if he was asleep and couldn’t wake up.” A horrified Lynne picked him up and he was as limp as a rag doll. She shrieked and a screaming Britney tried to grab her son, but Lynne pulled back and clutched him to her chest. She knew it was urgent to rush the baby to the hospital. She had gone through a similar episode with her son Bryan when he was 7. Britney grabbed for the phone and called for an ambulance. Told it would take a half-hour to arrive, the family decided to rush the boy to the hospital themselves.
[From the National Enquirer, Nov. 24, 2008, print ed.]
Though the family clearly did the right thing and K-Fed’s lawyer publicly proclaimed that he was impressed with Britney’s parenting during the episode, the Enquirer states that K-Fed is in fact livid with her – and the entire family – because they took so long to let him know what had happened.
Jayden’s dad was back home in Los Angeles enjoying a quiet Sunday with no knowledge of the scary drama unfolding at the hospital 2,000 miles away. “No one called Kevin until nearly midnight Louisiana time – hours after the interrupted diner,” said the source. “Britney insisted on staying with her on and asked for a bed to be brought into Jayden’s room.
“Lynne and Jamie made the call to Kevin. By this time it was too late to get a commercial flight, and Kevin was stuck until the morning before he could get a flight to Mississippi. He is furious – absolutley livid it took the family hours to let him know what had happened to Jayden. He feels betrayed by the Spears family.”
A representative for the family said doctors treating Jayden concluded that he had a reaction to something he ingested. But the source says the youngster has no known allergies and is a finicky eater – not likely to experiment with new foods.
“He eats mashed potatoes, spaghetti, corn and chicken,” said the source. “He loves cookies and candy. Kevin feels if Jayden did ingest something as the family is reporting, then there was a lack of supervision. Britney had a nanny, her dad, her mom, and sister Jamie Lynn there to help with the boys. Kevin made it clear to Britney it will be a long time before she will take the kids on a trip again.”
[From the National Enquirer, Nov. 24, 2008, print ed.]
If K-Fed really is upset with the family it sounds like he’s overreacting. From pretty much every account they did the right thing and took immediate action. Just because Jayden is a picky eater doesn’t mean he won’t put something into his mouth, and it could be food as easily as anything.
I do understand him being upset that it took him so long to get a call, and the Spears definitely should have phoned him right away. I’m guessing they probably didn’t want to alarm him until they had some clue as to what the problem was, and whether it was minor or serious. But no matter what, it should have been the first call they made. Hopefully K-Fed can get past it and maintain good family relations. It sounds like everyone was just trying to do their best.
Here’s Britney and her father Jamie picking up from a school in Encino on October 10th. Images thanks to WENN.
I’m not normally one to stick up for Britney but it seems to me that Kevin is overreacting. If the father of my children was away and I had to take one of them to the hospital, my first thought is going to be to get that child taken care of. Calling him would most definitely take a backseat to that.
Come on – she got Jayden to the hospital immediately and *did* call Kevin within a reasonable time frame. A year ago she probably would’ve had that Lutfi creep drive her to a hospital with Jayden on her lap in her convertible. 😯
Totally agree, momgeek. Priorities.
Sounds to me like ole K-Fed’s a bit miffed that he didn’t get in on some of that media attention. 🙄
I think he’s going to try to use this for more moolah in the future – the money grubbing no good for nothing.
I’m with you, Momgeek – I won’t often take up for her, but calling him would be the LAST thing on my mind if I found my child like that. I ‘get’ that he deserved to know, and much sooner than that, but did he really need to fly into Louisiana? C’mon… give me a break 🙄
Here we go again…You need a bit of cash, Kevin?
Funny how all the reports seemed unable to understand why Kfed wasn’t upset. I bet this was blown out of proportion.
So was it the crawfish or not. The article implied that Daddy Spears cooked it for super but when they called him in to eat that’s when they found him. So did he have his reaction before eating?
“She shrieked and a screaming Britney tried to grab her son, but Lynne pulled back and clutched him to her chest. She knew it was urgent to rush the baby to the hospital. She had gone through a similar episode with her son Bryan when he was 7.”
How the hell would a National Enquirer reporter know that kind of intimate detail? That’s so weird.
I’m sorry – I’m with KFed on this. Imagine if your kid was found unresponsive, and you were on the other side of the country? Wouldn’t you want to get right to him? As a mother, if you found your son that way, wouldn’t you call or have someone call the father? They were probably wanting to find out what it was for damage control before they called him – to let him know that Brittany took care of it. And I’m not a usual Brittany basher – I think she’s been through the ringer. But she was wrong in not calling. If the situation had been reversed, what would be saying about Kevin?
When something happens to your child, at least me, time seems to move slow motion and you are totally focused on the best interest of the child. I understand the family in that respect, yet, they had a bit of a drive and I do think someone should have phoned him. Perhaps they thought he was partying in Sin City tho. You know, that job he has of showing up there. hahahahahahahah
Food allergy my butt. Jayden probably found a xanax in the carpet and thought it was candy. They didn’t call Kevin because they knew he would be pissed and didn’t want the drama.
I don’t think he’s overreacting at all. After my parent’s separated, I was hospitalized with a broken arm once and I was with my dad. He didn’t call my mom all day, even though I asked for her several times. Think about how much more bonded these boys are to their father–to not have him around during a time like this probably sucked. It’s not as though there weren’t enough people during the ordeal to send someone out and have him or her call K. It’s just inconsiderate.
I don’t really buy any of this story. I tend to disregard reporters who can’t even spell; maybe that’s just me.
Has anyone heard definitively (e.g., from either KFed or his lawyer) that Kevin was not, in fact, contacted before this? And since when is it “too late to get a commercial flight” out of LAX? It’s called a redeye for a reason.
I call shenanigans.
Yeah, I’m kind of taking KFed’s side too. Between Brit, Lynne and Jamie, no one thought to call Jayden’s father in a timely manner to let him know his son was hospitalized?
i think kfed has a right to be pissed!
he has been the primary care giver (yes, with the help of a nanny but still) and nothing like this has happened while the boys are with him.
yes, the spears family took immdiate care once they found the kid unresponsive, but with ALL those people around, they still didn’t notice the kid was acting weird before then?
kfed deserved to be kept in the loop once everyone was admitted to the hospital. i don’t put anything past the spears family, trying to be sneaky or manipulative is their M.O.
shoot, knowing what media whores the spears family are, they probably called their contacts at the weekly rags first for the “exclusive” photos and story.
I am definitely with Team K-Fed on this. You call and tell me what is going on with my child WHEN I HAVE LEGAL CUSTODY. Even if he did not, it would be still the right thing to do instead of trying to cover it up.
But what I don’t understand, in earlier reports it was said that Kevin knew and was getting on a plane to head down there. There was never any mention that he was called later until the media had time to sit down and think about what they could put on this weeks front page.
I call bull.
I totally understand why Kevin Federline would be upset about this whole situation. He has custody, and all indicators suggest that he has taken good care of the boys while Britney has been dealing with her mental health/substance abuse problems.
Let’s not forget that Britney has shown poor judgement as a mother in the past and has been ordered to have a court-appointed parental supervisor! Remember when she was seen driving with baby Sean sitting unrestrained in her lap? How about when Sean allegedly fell out of his high chair and suffered head injuries? Remember the time she almost dropped the baby on the street? The one image of Britney and her baby boys that really tugged my heartstrings was the photo of her driving aimlessly around Los Angeles in some kind of daze while the little boys held hands and looked terrified in the back seat. It is a fact that she has a documented history of making poor decisions in regard to her children.
Kevin has a right to be worried, and I would be very concerned if I were in his shoes. Britney seems to be doing better, but only time will tell if her parenting abilities have improved to the point that she could be trusted to be competent caregiver for her own children.
the first time the looney-toons gets to take the child out of town, the child almost dies. i am stunned that anyone would second-guess the father’s right to be angry.
I gotta go with Maria on this one. I was in Dallas a few years back and back home my son (6 months at the time) got into our fireplace and ate some of the fire retardant material inside. He got very sick vomiting and was basically poisoned. If my husband hadn’t called me on the way to the hospital, I would have lost it on his ass. Even thinking that I could have been out shopping while my son was in the hospital on the east coast accidentally poisoned makes me just shake. I flew home immediately and just the plane ride with no phone was excrutiating. Yes we are married so it’s a different circumstance and I’m not a gold digging back up dancer….but if he loves that boy I’m sure not being able to be by his side and know what’s going on would be tourture.
I’m not sure exactly where they live – isn’t their estate close to MS? If so, there is only one major airport (I went to Ole Miss 4 years). That’s in Jackson. And trust me, there are very few flights going there! The closest he could get would be to land somewhere and then drive. Louisiana has I think two or three large-ish airports besides NO. You have to remember – he may have been able to get OUT of LA, but how easy was it to get IN where they were?
Kevin has every right to be upset. As Justalark rightly pointed out, Britney hasn’t exactly proven herself to be a model parent, and has endangered the boys several times (that we know of). So yeah, someone should have notified him right away.
Someone in the family should have called Kevin, there’s just no excuse for not letting him know. We know these people have cell phones, it’s not like they had to delay getting the baby to the hospital while someone stopped and used the house phone to call him.
I’m also hoping that the hospital did toxicology tests on Jaden, with that family’s history, I’d be a lot more inclined to believe he grabbed a pretty little pill out of mommy’s purse than I am to buy the “allergic reaction to a crawfish” story.
She could have called on the way to the hospital or once he was stable. If you have time to request a bed, you have time to contact his father. She wanted to play responsible, doting mother and didn’t want to hear anything knocking her parenting from Kevin. She was wrong.
Damned if she does, damned if she doesn’t.
If I was K-fed (and thank God I’m not), I would have been nervous the minute I turned my kids over to the crazy house known as the Spears family. Let’s see, we’ve got grandma Spears who pimped out both her daughters, grandpa Spears who was absent during pimping but makes a dramatic reappearance to whip daughter back in shape for further pimping, Mama Spears aka Britney, fresh out of psych ward and back working with role model Madonna, and Auntie Jamie – 17 yr old single mom. Within 24 hrs of turning kids over to these loons – one is rushed to the hospital unresponsive due to a “food reaction”.
Please, the child didn’t “almost die”!! He was photographied visiting relatives and an alligator farm less than two days after the hospitalization and he looks just fine.
Plus Federline has still the sole custody. Which means that he could have asked his sons back just after the accident if he had wanted.
the kid should have been home resting Lio, not out and about at an alligator farm.
just another example of how parentally challenged the loony toon is. hmmm, your child had a traumatizing food and hospital experience? so, instead of resting for a day, let’s go seem some gators! yeeeee haaaaawwwww
and maybe eat some crawfish too!
IDIOTS! 🙄
I believe that getting the child taken care of first was far more important than letting KFed know what was going on. Like he would have done anything differently in the same situation. Be glad the kid is ok and stfu!
This story smacks of being made up. I’m not buying that Kevin was ‘livid’, or told Brittany she wouldn’t get to take the kids for a long time. Just doesn’t ring true at all.
I gotta ask-Devilgirl, do you have children? Because most mothers or dads would feel tremendous guilt and fear not being by your childs side in any emergency where thay are in the hospital enough for an overnight stay. AND I can imagine he had some distrust for the family and wants to be there in person to see for himself his son is ok. Again I’m not him-but that’s how I would be comsidereing things happen in her care and no one but the cheeto crust on the walls and maybe sometimes him know what really happened when they were smaller and she had custody. Now she gets custody and something happens again-that’s awfully fishy….or crawfishy.
No disrespect-just my opinion. That’s what this is about right?