Where do you start with Britney? She’s moving to different hotels every night, with paparazzi trailing after her like flies on shit. She lost custody of her children, but she doesn’t seem to be as concerned about that as she is about putting her crazy on full display.

She has been granted supervised visitation rights with her children, but in order to even maintain those visits she has to comply with judge’s orders to go to counseling every week, meet with a parenting coach, and submit to drug tests. She completely ignored everything she was supposed to do just to maintain custody, which is why it was stripped from her, so the next step for Britney is to be estranged from her young boys due to her own willful negligence. She certainly seems to be headed there.

He [the judge] also ruled that her visitation rights will be terminated “if any conduct or action by (Britney) endangers the minor children.” The monitor has the power to terminate her visitation rights.

Gordon said Britney “is ordered to undergo testing for the use of controlled substances and alcohol,” something he required in a previous order. As we first reported, Spears did not submit to drug tests as required by the Court. Gordon now says “… refusal to submit to a test … shall be deemed by the Court as a failed test.”

She’s also required to undergo “individual counseling” at least once a week as required by Gordon last month and must also meet with a parenting coach so they can “observe [her] interaction with the minor children and her parenting skills.”

[From TMZ.com]

On October 26th she’s scheduled for another custody hearing and must show up to court. At that point if she hasn’t attended at least three individual counseling sessions and three joint counseling sessions with K-Fed she could lose visits with her sons.

Meanwhile the video for Britney’s new single is out, and features a blonde-wigged throwback-looking Britney watching a dark-wigged stripper version of her current self. It’s not bad by most accounts, and a lot of that is due to flattering lighting and expert editing. Her career is slowing crawling back, and her single “Gimme More” is currently at the top of the digital download charts. It couldn’t come at worse time for her, though. The more she courts press the more she seems like she’s headed for an even worse, even more public meltdown.

Britney’s record label, Jive, has come out with a supportive statement about her upcoming album and her well-publicized personal issues. They say “she faces challenges that most of us can’t really imagine” and that she’s a human being and that “it’s not our place to comment on her personal issues, but we do care about her and support her.”

Yesterday she was photographed looking visibly distressed in her car outside a supermarket while holding her dog. Did she hear that PETA wants her give up custody of her pooches too or was she upset that she still has to quit drugs if she wants to see her kids?

She is addicted and needs to clean up and start showing up, but all she can do is follow her every whim and flit around. She’s about to dig herself an even deeper hole, and I’m at the point where I don’t want to watch her do it. If she doesn’t go to rehab again or accept some form of help she’s going to lose her boys entirely. While she probably is grateful to be free of the smidgen of responsibility she had before, it must be distressing to her to realize that by holding on so tightly to her immaturity she’s risking even seeing her boys again.

Let’s see: sober up and show up for counseling and be able to see your kids or continue to drink and get high every day, do whatever you want and be completely alone in the world without the thing that means the most to you? What a tough decision.