United Kingdom, Aug. 25 -- Britney Spears says her ill-fated marriage to Sam Asghari was a "fake distraction" from being "cut off" from her sons.

The 43-year-old singer's sons Jayden James, 18, and Sean Preston, 19, moved to Hawaii with their father Kevin Federline in 2023 but her relationship with them was strained even before then and Britney believes her short marriage to Sam was just a way for her to distract from her grief.

Britney - who tied the knot with Sam in June 2022 before they split in July 2023 - wrote on Instagram: "We're just people so fragile and human the hardest years of my life were my two sons gone for those 3 years . I was cut off from calling or texting and I remember in shock my secret to survival was denial and ...