wow... has this thread come along way since a year ago! lol
Britney has JUST released her second single and video - 'piece of me'. It appears miss britney is making a massive comeback due to it - she looks brilliant with the clean blonde hair and healthy skin and the song is actually incredibly catchy.
Although I can not see her side of every situation shes been in, in the last few years it does give you an idea of the stresses of her fame and that she does have some talent to release these catchy pop songs.
I hope she sees how much we love her as that clean blonde pop star and sticks to it.
so i saw this thing on my hotmail....is britney pregnant again?
No, but baby sister is! And now they rekon the father isn't the teenage boyfriend, but an over 18 year old, who can be charged with rape. I guess we'll have to wait and see about that one.
Meanwhile, fame and fortune have done nothing for the Spears family IMO. It has truly been a curse.
There are reports pop starlet Britney Spears has been taken to hospital from her home, after police were called to resolve a custody dispute.
Celebrity news website TMZ says Spears has been taken to a hospital for a "medical hold," which it described as a mental evaluation.
Police "found her earlier this evening at her home under the influence of an 'unknown substance'," the site reports.
They had been called after she refused to return her two young sons to their father.
LAPD spokesman Officer Jason Lee says that officers had been at Spears' hilltop home in the suburb of Studio City since 8pm local time "trying to resolve the dispute peacefully and legally," according to the court order governing Spears' two sons with former husband Kevin Federline.
Spears's on-going custody battle with Federline has been the source of lurid headlines, spiking after a judge limited her access to her children in October.
Britney Spears has been carried out of her home on a stretcher and taken into custody after police were called in a dispute involving her children. "While officers were at Britney's home they found that Britney appeared under the influence of an unknown substance," officer Jason Lee told the BBC.
"She is being taken into custody for evaluation," he added.
The 26-year-old singer and ex-husband Kevin Federline are wrangling over custody of their two young sons.
'Breakdown'
Police were called to Spears' home at 2000 local time (0400 GMT) over a family custodial dispute that they tried to resolve "peacefully by court order", Mr Lee said.
After nearly three hours, Spears reportedly handed over her children, two-year-old Sean Preston and one-year-old Jayden James, to Federline.
Federline has temporary custody of their children because Spears, who has limited visitation rights, failed to comply with court orders.
The pop star's lawyers filed a court motion earlier this week asking to be relieved as her representatives due to a "breakdown" in communication.
Spears and Federline were married in October 2004 and divorced in July 2007.
Life & Style can exclusively report that Britney Spears blood tests at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center came back negative, despite earlier reports from police that she appeared to be under the influence of a substance when she was taken from her home after a custody dispute last night.
“Her blood test just came back, and, thank God, it was clean. There are no traces of drugs or alcohol of any kind,” a source close to the Spears family tells Life & Style.
This indicates that her odd behavior was not the result of substance abuse, as early reports suggested.
Britney appeared to be laughing when she was taken from her home into an ambulance.
But an LAPD spokesperson was unable to confirm or deny to Life & Style on Friday morning that earlier reports indicated that cops believed Britney appeared to be under the influence of a substance when they arrived on the scene.
“Her blood test just came back, and, thank God, it was clean. There are no traces of drugs or alcohol of any kind,” a source close to the Spears family tells Life & Style.
This indicates that her odd behavior was not the result of substance abuse, as early reports suggested.
. . . . . Source: Life & Style
Just because she had no traces of chemical in her blood that day is not an 'all clear'.
Her weird behaviour could also be attributed to recent past 'chemistry lessons' she now has to detox from. Just like a smoker or drinker has withdrawal symptoms (even though substance free) she could be reacting to the lack of chemical support.
“Her blood test just came back, and, thank God, it was clean. There are no traces of drugs or alcohol of any kind,” a source close to the Spears family tells Life & Style.
Well the latest news on this appears to contradict the above.
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Los Angeles police spokesman Jason Lee said Spears was under the influence of an unknown substance and was being detained and evaluated in the hospital.
Well, she's lost them! Yanno, I almost feel sorry for her.
Britney Spears loses child visitation rights
Britney Spears has lost the right to visit her two young sons after refusing to hand them back in an incident that ended with her being taken to a hospital in hysterics.
The Los Angeles judge handling the custody dispute between Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline suspended the pop star's visitation rights at an emergency court hearing, court documents showed.
The documents said Spears' "visitation with the minor children is suspended pending further order of the court."
It added that Federline was awarded "sole legal and physical custody" of the boys.
Spears, 26, lost primary custody of the boys in October to Federline after her life spun out of control following their divorce, her stints in rehab, a bizarre head-shaving episode and reports of drinking and drug use.
She is currently undergoing court-ordered random drug and alcohol tests and has court-monitored visits with her children three times a week.
Ambulance
Television reports showed Spears, 26, being taken out of her home on a gurney early on Friday and driven to Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in an ambulance.
Earlier, Los Angeles police spokesman Jason Lee said Spears was under the influence of an unknown substance and was being detained and evaluated in the hospital. Mr Lee said no injuries were reported.
According to celebrity news websites, Spears locked herself in a room with one of her children and went into hysterics when aides of Federline arrived to pick up sons Sean Preston, 2 and Jayden James, 1, from a court-authorised visit.
TMZ.com said Spears was expected to remain hospitalised under evaluation for her mental state for at least 48 hours.
Us magazine, citing a hospital source, said Spears had been designated a "special needs" patient and was under constant watch.
Another source told the magazine that in the ambulance Spears had to be restrained like a mental patient and that she "was going between laughing and hysterics."
Cedars-Sinai declined to comment, citing patient confidentiality.
Spears, who became a teen pop phenomenon nine years ago, has rarely been out of the news since her split with Federline in November 2006 after two years of marriage.
She made her musical comeback in October with a new single, "Gimme More," and an album, Blackout, that played strongly on radio and digital download charts and briefly hit No 2 on the US pop album charts.
Oh great! . . she gets front page coverage of all her drunken/drug binges . .and now she wants an audience for this too ??? . *walks away muttering about the world going to hell in a handbasket*
Brit's visitation has been "suspended pending further order of the Court." The order is in Although police initially suspected Britney Spears was "under the influence of an unknown substance" during a nearly three-hour standoff with police Thursday night, authorities have since determined Spears was clean and sober.
According to Los Angeles police Officer Ana Aguirre, there was no evidence the pop star had been drinking or doing drugs during the Jan. 3 incident.
"Our understanding is that was not the case," she said.
"There was a time where she was within the residence and wasn't available to be speaking to the officers, apparently," added Aguirre. "There was no threat to the children."
Aguirre confirmed both Spears' children were turned over to her ex-husband Kevin Federline and the pop star was taken to the hospital.
"We're not aware of any type of injuries that she sustained" and she was not combative with authorities, Aguirre said.
Spears is currently at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she is reportedly on a 72-hour lockdown for mental evaluation.
Now that Britney is out of the hospital, she may have already lined up her first televison debut with none other than Dr. Phil. TMZ is reporting that Dr. Phil visited Britney at the hospital to be a listener and to offer some advice.
According to TMZ, "The show is taping a special about Britney Spears on Monday, which will air on Wednesday."
Dr. Phil released the following statement: "My meeting with Britney and some family members this morning in her room at Cedars leaves me convinced more than ever that she is in dire need of both medical and psychological intervention. She was released moments before my arrival and was packing when I entered the room. We visited for about an hour before I walked with her to her car. I am very concerned for her."
I've been hearing from a reliable source for almost a year now that some of Britney Spears' family members believe she has bipolar disorder. They don’t think it’s drugs. They don’t feel she has a drinking problem.
In plain and simple language, they believe the former pop princess has a mental illness.
If, in fact, Ms. Spears has a bipolar illness, isn’t it time for the haters to back off? I'm talking about those who post comments on blogs that go so far as to wish her dead.
Making fun of Spears for a bad song, a poor performance or maybe even a not-so-in-shape body, I can handle. But the venom that's been spewed in the last 24 hours alone is unreal.
Why so much hate? My armchair theory is, it’s jealousy. No one is jealous of her downfall, but surely they may be envious of all she's achieved in her very young life. She wasn’t even an adult when she became one of the world’s biggest pop sensations. And she got very, very rich along the way.
Fast-forward to today. Spears is in a hospital, locked down for her own good. No one knows for sure what exactly went down last night at her house, but I don’t care how famous you are, being strapped into a gurney and thrown into an ambulance as paparazzi and news helicopters hover overheard to catch every minute detail cannot be fun in any way.
While her particular situation may be unique, Spears is not exactly alone. According to the National Institutes of Mental Health, bipolar disorder affects 5.7 million American adults. The median age of onset for the illness is 25. Spears just turned 26 Dec. 1.
"The symptoms of bipolar disorder are basically extreme highs and lows," says Los Angeles-based psychotherapist Stacy Kaiser. "It's a very under treated disorder. Most people end up medicating themselves with drugs or alcohol."
I was talking to a friend earlier who said of Spears’ messy life, “She asked for it.” Would you say the same thing about someone with cancer?
No one in their right mind asks to have bipolar disorder. No one in their right mind asks for their children to be taken away from them. No one in their right mind asks to be called trash by overzealous bloggers.
I am not saying Spears' behavior should be condoned or supported. Of course not. Not only has she apparently put her own life at risk, she’s appeared to have endangered her children’s safety and well-being.
But with the right medical care and supervision, there’s no reason Spears can’t get back on her own two feet. Up to 80 percent of those treated generally show an improvement in their symptoms within four to six weeks of beginning medication, psychotherapy, and/or attending support groups, according to NIMH.
She could be a mom to those kids. She can be a wife again someday. And yes, I really do believe she can fill stadiums and concert halls like she once did not so long ago.
"There are a lot of people with bipolar disorder that function in the world like normal people," Kaiser says.
Still, as the hours have gone by today, I've noticed a shift. Comments posted on blogs seem to be more sympathetic. People, I hope, are slowly coming to realize she isn’t just a spoiled brat dancing on table tops. Spears is a sick woman who needs help.
She’s really sick and I don't know enough to say if it's simply 'Hollywood childhood spoilt brat syndrome' or an actual mental illness.
It's easy to see though - she needs help and not the dr phil public tv sort of help but true private help. I think her whole family would need to be in on it too (getting their own I mean) as it's easy to see, they don't all know what they're doing either, to be able to live a healthy happy and safe life.
What I can't get my head around is that with all the money that circulates around Hollywood with all the professionals at their fingertips that SOMEBODY (anybody) didn't pick up on the fact that she's not well... truly not well. That instead they pushed her (or allowed her) to make another album... release videos etc. With all of her crazy antics since her late teens - nobody has gone... 'she really needs to be MADE to get help'.
It's sad because even when she gets the help we all know that the press and papz will be all over her at her hide away.. will be all around her as she goes to her meetings will be wanting her to hurry up and make a statement on some entertainment news program that she’s getting better... they'll continue to follow her unless she calms it all down. I truly believe this IS the best we will ever see Britney Spears if she continues to live this Hollywood photog/entertainment news lifestyle and it's not all the press's fault she has to take the blame for her plain stupid attention grabbing moments.
When we thought it couldn't get any worse.. this happens and it's almost like you're waiting for a 'death of Britney spears' headline (more so) or her to continue this lifestyle and for the general public to get bored with it and just accept it as 'Britney Spears'.
... I don't know - that’s my thoughts on it all anyway. Xx
Funny, I was just thinking Brit may be bi-polar today. It doesn't usually surface till later in life, and it is hereditary. I kinda hope it is, because properly medicated, she will return to normal, and it would explain her crazy behavior. I believe Carrie Fisher went through the same thing, though I guess the paparazzi weren't as bad back then as they are today.
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she now has to detox from. Just like a smoker or drinker has withdrawal symptoms (even though substance free) she could be reacting to the lack of chemical support. 
