Sam Asghari Calls Britney Spears Marriage a 'Crash Course in Hollywood'

Sam Asghari, the ex-husband of Britney Spears, implied that he was thrown some curveballs in his past marriage in a new interview.

The fitness model and actor appeared in a new episode of podcast Sibling Revelry on Sunday (Jan. 26), where his short-lived marriage to Spears was discussed. After meeting on the set of Spears 2016 music video for her “Slumber Party” music video, the now-exes got engaged in 2021 and married the following year. Spears, who's been married three times, and Asghari officially divorced last May.

Around the 28-minute mark, Asghari referenced filming "Slumber Party," which he initially thought was "just another job."

“And then there's seven years worth of relationship that comes from the music video and a marriage and a lot of experiences, which I like to call it a crash course in Hollywood, which was great," he said.

While Asghari never viewed his marriage as "a big-time thing," elsewhere, he detailed that he and Spears went for sushi during the video shoot.

"And everything was going really well until one day, I started learning about what the conservatorship is, and things like that," he continued. "That's when I was like, Wait a minute. Like, I thought, I'm in America."

"What do you mean someone over the age of 18 needs permission from their parents and all this ridiculous thing? ... It's just, it's such a ridiculous thing in this country to have to deal with."

"And that was by far the most–I'm not going to say difficult because I don't think anything's difficult–That was the weirdest thing to deal with," Asghari said.

The couple married just months after the conclusion of Spears' conservatorship but separated in 2023 for irreconcilable differences. Spears jokingly celebrated being "married" to herself in an Instagram post last October, and months before, Asghari avowed to never speak badly about his ex-wife in a People interview.

"I've always hated people leaving a certain relationship—and at some point they told each other they love each other and they sat at the same table and ate food [together]—so I never understood when people part ways [and] they talk badly about each other," he told the publication.