Sam Asghari Talks Britney Spears Divorce, Confirms He Signed NDA

The mannequin and actor appeared on Nick Viall’s The Viall Information podcast Wednesday, the place he revealed that he signed an NDA throughout his time with the “Stronger” singer.

“You may’t take a poop in Hollywood with out having an NDA. … That is the true a part of it,” Asghari quipped. And whereas he mentioned there is a gag order surrounding his divorce from the pop star, Asghari might nonetheless agree that in terms of breakups, splits and divorces, “it sucks.”

“I at all times hated the truth that any person goes and talks about this and cries and tries to get consideration or use that as leverage. It is my life. I lived it. I skilled it. However I feel sure stuff you discuss in public and sure issues you do not. And I feel it does not matter what the trigger was,” he shared.

Asghari continued, “I feel what issues probably the most is the time that we spent collectively, the issues that we have realized. And that was a giant a part of my life and her life as properly.”

The Traitors star, who immigrated from Iran when he was 12, met Spears on the set of her “Slumber Occasion” music video, with the pair having what he described as a really “pure” connection.

They agreed to fulfill up for a sushi date weeks after the shoot and the remainder was historical past, with the pair tying the knot in June 2022.

Whereas issues have been “excellent” at first, Asghari admitted it was very troublesome to skate round the truth that Spears was in a years-long conservatorship that noticed her battling along with her father and relations earlier than ultimately being launched from their care in November 2021.

“This can be a seven-year-long relationship, and it is the longest I have been in a relationship with any person, and it is the longest she’s ever been in a relationship with any person,” Asghari mirrored. “However, you understand, we needed to cope with — she was beneath the conservatorship, and that was very unusual for me to cope with. I acquired hit with that firstly.”

All through their ups and downs, Asghari mentioned he needed to be “the conventional” in Spears’ life.

“I needed to be the conventional half about that life as a result of she by no means, I do not suppose she had that,” he informed Viall.

Because the divorce and conservatorship’s finish, Spears has made headlines for her dancing movies — significantly one wherein she danced whereas holding two knives. When requested by Viall for Asghari’s response to the controversial video, he remained impartial, however famous that even when they have been nonetheless collectively he’d by no means have stopped his ex from sharing the clip.

“I am not somebody that is ‘Let me, let me take your cellphone from you and never permit you to do something and prohibit you from posting your individual content material,’” Asghari mentioned. “And, and particularly if you happen to’re an artist, I feel, you understand, we’re speaking about she’s a genius artist. What’s in her head is gold, and it is what made her who she is.”

“So if you take away the flexibility to, you understand, make artwork categorical your self, I am not gonna be the one which’s gonna cease anyone from posting no matter they need,” he continued, “particularly if dance is the way in which you categorical your self.”

On the finish of the day, Asghari mentioned he is “at all times gonna have respect” for Spears, and want to, “in some unspecified time in the future,” be in contact along with her once more.

“I want her the very best,” Asghari added.