Fred Durst, who publicly bickered with Britney Spears back in 2003 about a reported relationship (she’s always denied it), is once again speaking out about the pop star, saying they were indeed a couple, after claiming he was going to put the feud behind him.

“It just became a fiasco of madness,” Durst, 38, tells MTV News about their fight. “[But] I always stay true to my heart and true to everything I did and my intentions, and I am in no way a liar.”

The Limp Bizkit singer reportedly became an item with Spears at the 2003 American Music Awards in L.A. Durst wrote on his band’s Web site at the time that he had “never felt this way.” Spears, who was 21 at the time, never acknowledged the relationship.

Even after Durst went on Howard Stern’s radio show and swearing on his son’s life that he was telling the truth, Spears rarely commented on his remarks. She did, however, tell the British version of Glamour magazine, “He’s said some pretty amazing things about me. But, um, I think he leaped in too deep, too quick.”

Durst still isn’t exactly sure about how everything played out but describes it as an episode of her bizarre behavior.

“I look back on it as very interesting [in terms of] how things have been sort of unraveling for her since,” he says. “[But] it is what it is. I can sleep at night knowing I made decisions that I wanted to make. [Still] I’m a supporter. I was then, I guess I am now.”

“I just guess at the time it was taboo for a guy like me to be associated with a gal like her,” he adds.

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