Pop star Britney Spears and her husband, Sam Asghari, have separated after just over a year of marriage, a source familiar with the situation told NBC News.
“They are separated and it is the best thing for Britney,” the source said. Additional details were not immediately available.
Spears, 41, and Asghari, 29, met on the set of the singer’s “Slumber Party” music video in 2016, and began dating soon after.
The couple announced their engagement in September 2021 and held a star-studded ceremony inside Spears’ Los Angeles home in June 2022.
Asghari told “Good Morning America” in an interview last year that the wedding was intimate, with approximately 50 to 70 guests to celebrate with them.
“It’s just surreal,” Asghari said in an interview with ABC last year. “It was way behind us and we figured this was a fairy tale and it was,” she added then.
The couple had a tumultuous few years as Spears fought to end the conservatorship her family placed her under in 2008.
The artist had no legal authority over her own medical decisions or contracts, including a legal marriage, until the guardianship ended in 2021.
The “Toxic” singer also revealed during her testimony requesting termination of conservatorship that she did not have the authority to remove her intrauterine device, a contraceptive, while under the regime.
She told the court in 2021 that she wanted more children and couldn’t due to her legal limitations.
She and Asghari revealed in May last year that the so-called “pop princess” had suffered a miscarriage. The singer said in an Instagram post that the couple lost her “miracle baby.”
“This is a devastating time for any parent,” he said. “Perhaps we should have waited to announce (the pregnancy) until we were further along, however we were too excited to share our good news,” he added at the time.
Britney Spears recently posted on Instagram photos of her and Asghari together in July, horseback riding on the beach. Weeks before that, she shared photos and videos of them traveling together.
