Britney Spears and Sam Asghari have gone their separate methods after 14 months of marriage, a number of sources affirm to PEOPLE.
A rep for Spears and a supervisor for Asghari haven’t responded to requests for remark.
TMZ was first to report the information.
The couple — who met in 2016 on the set of Spears’ “Slumber Social gathering” music video set — married in June 2022.
The marriage was held in Los Angeles, and round 60 visitors had been in attendance, together with Drew Barrymore, Madonna, Paris Hilton and Selena Gomez.
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However by this February, Spears’ interior circle had “grown involved” for her well-being and deliberate to stage an intervention, which was then canceled.
In March, rumors started circulating that the couple had been having marital struggles — however Asghari’s rep shut the rumors down.
Addressing pictures that confirmed Asghari and Spears with out their marriage ceremony bands, Cohen informed PEOPLE that Asghari merely took off his ring as a result of he was filming a film. Whereas it was unclear what film Asghari was filming, he announced in November that he landed a job within the Taylor Sheridan-created tv collection, Lioness.
Earlier than they received married, Asghari performed a job in supporting the pop star amid her psychological well being therapy in 2019.
After her father, Jamie Spears, turned critically sick when his colon spontaneously ruptured in November 2018, the singer revealed that she could be taking an indefinite break from making ready for her subsequent Las Vegas present, Domination, to help her father.
Through the robust time, Spears checked right into a facility for “all-encompassing wellness therapy” in April 2019. That is when Asghari stepped in to play a much bigger position in supporting Spears as she dealt along with her father’s well being scare.
A Spears household supply informed PEOPLE, “There isn’t any query that Sam is nice for Britney. He has a really constructive affect on her. He’s very motivated to remain wholesome and match, they usually usually work out collectively.”
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He additionally confirmed help for her amid her conservatorship battle.
In June 2021, Spears spoke at a conservatorship listening to in Los Angeles, spending half-hour telling Decide Brenda Penny by cellphone, “I am not comfortable. I am unable to sleep. I am depressed. I cry on daily basis.”
Following the singer’s explosive court docket look, a supply informed PEOPLE that Asghari — who wore a #FreeBritney T-shirt on his Instagram Story forward of the listening to — has been the singer’s “rock.”
“Sam has been Britney’s rock for years. He makes certain that she eats properly and works out,” the supply says about Spears’ boyfriend on the time. “She leans on him for all the things. He works and has his personal life too, however is round as a lot as he can.”
The 2 had been engaged in September 2021, with Asghari proposing to Spears at their residence.
He later spoke to PEOPLE about being by her facet following the discharge of an unauthorized Hulu documentary on Spears’ life and the termination of her conservatorship in November 2021.
“I’ve all the time wished nothing however the very best for my higher half, and can proceed to help her following her desires and creating the longer term she needs and deserves,” he informed PEOPLE solely then. “I’m grateful for all the love and help she is receiving from her followers all around the world, and I’m trying ahead to a standard, wonderful future collectively.”
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The exes additionally shared their enjoyable occasions on social media. In December 2022, they celebrated Spears’ forty first birthday. Asghari shocked Spears with cake, flowers and balloons.
“My husband shocked me ✨🎂🎈!!!” Spears wrote on Instagram. “I am sick with the flu and he got here downstairs … he was fairly f—ing clean !!!! I really like you 🥰😘 !!!! It is Mr. and Mrs. Asghari 💍💍💍 !!!”
They usually shared pictures from outings like mountain climbing outside. In Could, the “Circus” singer shared a video on Instagram with Asghari the place they packed on the PDA.
“I really feel so blessed to be with such an unbelievable husband who evokes me on a regular basis 🥰 !!!” Spears wrote on Instagram, throughout which the “Gimme Extra” singer additionally expressed her love for flowers and information that she’s “redesigning her home.”
“Have a superb day my mates and godspeed ✨✨✨ !!!” she continued.
Within the outside montage — set to “Trustworthy” by Justin Bieber — the Grammy winner fortunately smiled as she playfully flirted and kissed the Scorching Seat actor beneath a grand arch of flowers.
In July, the 2 had been pictured carrying matching hats.
The separation comes as Spears prepares for the discharge of her memoir, The Girl in Me, out Oct. 24.
