Britney Spears’ ex-husband is speaking out about the pop star’s arrest for driving under the influence. Sam Asghari is calling on everyone to give Spears space.
The model and fitness trainer, 32, was asked about his ex-wife’s arrest during an interview with Fox News on Friday, March 6, and said that people make mistakes.
“When it comes to people making mistakes, I understand that,” Tehran-born Asghari said, “I think that everyone deserves privacy. And I hope the press has learned from the past, that they give her the privacy that she needs.”
The “Toxic” singer, 44, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol (DUI) in Ventura, Calif. on the evening of March 4. She was released back home early on the morning the following day. According to a press release issued by California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Ryan Ayers on Thursday, Spears’ black BMW 430i “was reported to the CHP’s Ventura Communications Center for driving erratically at a high rate of speed” and pulled over. After she was pulled over, Spears showed signs of “impairment and submitted to a series of field sobriety tests” before she was arrested for what Ayers said appeared to be “driving under the influence of a combination of drugs and alcohol” and booked.