By ELLEN GOODSTEIN
Britney Spears
walked out on
party-loving hubby
Kevin Federline
the morning after
sources say she
sent her bodyguard to a
nightclub to make sure he was
being faithful.
Insiders told The National
Enquirer that the 23-year-old
pop princess — still battling the
baby blues — ran home to her
mom in Louisiana with six-week-old Sean on October 20.
There, the source says, she
cried her eyes out over a deepening
crisis in her marriage to
Kevin, 27.
Despite the distance between
them, the couple are then said
to have had another blow-up.
Over the phone, Kevin
allegedly told his wife he was too
busy working on his new music
to collect her and their son from
the airport when she was ready
to return some six days later.
The couple eventually came to
an uneasy truce and Britney and the baby returned to California
after a week away. But now, say
sources, the arguing has put a
terrible strain on the marriage —
and they could be heading for a
more permanent split. Britney
is said to fear Kevin is reverting
to the behavior that led him to
leave his girlfriend Shar Jackson
when she was pregnant with
their second child.
"Kevin was doing everything
right when Britney was still
recovering from her C-section
surgery," said a close source.
"But now that Britney's up and
around again, Kevin's ready to
party, hit the clubs, work on his
music career and leave Britney
to care for Sean all by herself.
"Britney is a devoted
new mom and wants to
spend all her time with the baby.
But Kevin is just not interested in
staying home all the time and it's
caused problems for the couple.
Kevin has been going out at night
leaving Britney alone with Sean.
She wants to lean on him but he's
not always there for her."
Britney has been miserable and
angry and crying a lot, said the
source, adding: "They have been
arguing constantly about it."
The breaking point came on
the night of October 19 " when
Kevin left Britney and the baby
to go out to the trendy Mood
nightspot in L.A.
For more of this story, pick up this week's issue of The National Enquirer.
