A picture of a semi-nude Britney in a store on June 25th, 2007
Britney Spears made another pit stop on her long trip to crazy town. And it really is becoming clearer and clearer that Spears is suffering from severe mental illness, not just immaturity and super selfishness. Life & Style is reporting that on Sunday, the day before her custody hearing, Britney and paparazzo boyfriend Adnan Ghalib went to a Betsey Johnson store in a Sherman Oaks, California mall. Shopping for a new sweater or a crazy dress perhaps? No. Why do that at a store when you can strip down to absolute nothingness and flash your unbridled crazy to the other shoppers?

Britney Spears stunned sales staff at a Betsey Johnson store in Sherman Oaks, California on Sunday when she stepped out of a fitting room completely naked. A day before Spears’ bizarre antics outside a Los Angeles courthouse cost her visitation rights to her young son for a month, the singer was stripping in front of shoppers.

Spears and her paparazzi boyfriend Adnan Ghalib caused a stir at the upmarket store upon their arrival, and as trendy shoppers watched, Spears grabbed a Betsey Johnson dress and took it to a fitting room. But when she re-appeared, she wasn’t wearing the dress or what she had on when she entered the store.

One store employee who witnessed Spears’ shocking display tells Life & Style magazine, “I was blown away. Britney’s private parts were right in front of me! I grabbed a dress to cover her and she screamed, ‘Get away from me! Don’t you *****ng come near me!’”

[From ABC Action News]

After both Britney and Adnan walked back into the dressing room (Brit still naked, of course) the two reportedly spent half an hour in there alone. When they deigned to come out, another employee says that Britney was completely incoherent.

“I couldn’t understand a word she was saying. She was slurring and spitting, and talking with a British accent… I wanted to help her, but she was so mean that I left her alone.”

[From ABC Action News]

I can’t tell if the employee is insinuating that Britney (and possibly Adnan?) did drugs in the dressing room, or that the pair also had sex. Whatever they were doing, it’s clear the employee’s impression was that it was certainly illicit. I can think of few things that bode worse for her mental health than stripping naked in a store and cursing and yelling at people when they try to cover you up. And then doing drugs and/or having sex in a semi-public setting. Well, except for holding one of your kids hostage. That would definitely be worse.

Note by Celebitchy: Splash News reminds us that this isn’t the first time Britney has stripped naked while trying on clothes. The header photo, which shows a little nip and is NSFW, is from June 25, 2007.