Sam Asghari said Monday he thinks it is good that Britney Spears is focused on healing after she voluntarily checked herself into a treatment facility following her March 4 arrest for driving under the influence in California.
“I think it's great,” Asghari said on April 22. “And as long as the person is in charge of that, it's all good.”
The comments came as Spears, 42, continues to deal with the fallout from the March 4 arrest. After her release from police custody, a representative said the incident was “an unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable,” adding that Spears would “take the right steps and comply with the law” and that it could be “the first step in long-overdue change that needs to occur in Britney's life.”
Asghari had already addressed the situation in March, saying he wished Spears “the most success and recovery” and that he thought she should have “the privacy she deserves.”
His remarks carry extra weight because the two were once closely linked. Spears and Asghari met in November 2016 on the set of her “Slumber Party” music video, began dating about five months later, and married before divorcing in 2024 after 14 months of marriage.
The blunt line in Asghari’s response is the clearest signal of where he stands: he is not trying to manage Spears’ recovery from a distance, only to say that if she is making the decision herself, he sees it as the right one. That leaves the central question not about his view, but about whether Spears’ treatment stay becomes the lasting change her representatives said it could be.
