Britney Spears and Sam Asghari Divorce: Report

Just hours after information broke on Aug. 16 that Britney Spears and Sam Asghari are separating after 14 months of marriage, People reported that 29-year-old Asghari filed for divorce on Wednesday. TMZ was first to report on their break up.

A supply informed People that issues have reportedly been “very toxic” between Spears, 41, and Asghari for a very long time. “Their marriage has been on the rocks for months,” the insider stated. “There has been constant drama. It’s sad. A divorce would be devastating for Britney.” Reps for Spears and Asghari didn’t instantly reply to POPSUGAR’s requests for feedback.

Spears and Asghari first met on the set of the singer’s “Slumber Party” music video in 2016. The pair, who nonetheless comply with one another on Instagram, introduced their engagement on Sept. 12, 2021, precisely two months after the singer’s 13-year conservatorship ended. They tied the knot on June 9, 2022, in an intimate Los Angeles ceremony with 60 friends.

Shortly after their wedding ceremony, Asghari opened up about married life in a “Good Morning America” interview, saying, “It’s just surreal. It was way overdue for us, and we imagined this thing being a fairy tale, and it was. We wanted to just celebrate, and that’s what we did.”

Two months after exchanging vows, Spears wrote in a since-deleted Instagram put up, “Guys just two months ago I got married 🎉🎉🎉 !!! Can you believe it 🙈🙈🙈 ???” alongside photographs from her “fairytale wedding.”

While Spears has but to publicly tackle the break up, the singer is slated to drop her tell-all memoir, “The Woman in Me,” this fall. According to writer Simon & Schuster, the e book “is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.”