You can believe two things concurrently about Britney Spears: her conservatorship was abusive and harmful and it needed to be lifted AND Britney needs some kind of formal structure to protect her and protect other people from her. Since Britney’s conservatorship was finally lifted in 2021, Britney has had the freedom to oversee (or not) her medication, and she’s been free to drink and party as much as she wants. In the past five years, there have been many challenges, but I believe she still has bodyguards around her some of the time, and they’ve kept her out of trouble for the most part. But not this week. This week, Britney was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. She was held overnight and released this morning.
Britney Spears has been released Thursday morning after having been arrested on suspicion of DUI in Moorpark, law enforcement has confirmed to NBC4 Investigates.
Spears was arrested Wednesday night around 9:30 p.m. after being pulled over by the California Highway Patrol in Ventura County.
According to law enforcement, Spears was released shortly after 6 a.m. Thursday.
No further details were immediately available.
I’ve long believed that Britney’s drinking and drug use has been her way of self-medicating, especially when we’re not sure if she’s even still taking her prescription medications at this point. Well, I’m glad she was pulled over and taken into custody before she hurt someone or hurt herself. I hope this is a wakeup call not just for Britney but the people who are still on her team.
Update: Britney’s rep released a statement, saying that Britney’s arrest “was an unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable. Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law and hopefully this can be the first step in long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney’s life. Hopefully, she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time. Her boys are going to be spending time with her. Her loved ones are going to come up with an overdue needed plan to set her up for success for well being.”
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Britney’s Instagram.
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- ** RIGHTS: ONLY UNITED STATES, BRAZIL, CANADA ** Las Vegas, NV – Britney Spears announces her new residency, “Britney: Domination” at Park MGM in Las Vegas, Nevada. She will perform 32 shows at Park Theatre starting in February 2019. Pictured: Britney Spears BACKGRID USA 18 OCTOBER 2018 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Los Angeles, CA – Britney Spears keeping herself hydrated after getting her sweat on with a yoga class. Pictured: Britney Spears BACKGRID USA 27 JUNE 2019 BYLINE MUST READ: WAGO / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Thousand Oaks, CA – Britney Spears gets the shopping bug at Nordstrom! Pictured: Britney Spears BACKGRID USA 28 JUNE 2019 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
I hope this can be the turning point for Brit, rooting for her!
This is really disappointing.
I know we all love us some gossip – but the line “… when we’re not sure if she’s still taking her prescription medications” I feels really invasive to me. That’s the kind of scrutiny that probably got her here.
I would agree that it crosses a line were it not for the fact that her decades-long battle with mental illness is very well known. I don’t think people should be shamed or blamed for going off their meds just like I don’t think they should be shamed or stigmatized for having a mental illness. That being said, anyone who has ever had mental illness touch their lives either directly/indirectly knows the danger that stopping prescribed meds can lead to. This is how fragile, vulnerable people find themselves in scary situations, doing things they would not normally do, going missing etc etc.
So it might be a bit intrusive, but it’s also a reality that mentally ill people and their families have to deal with.
Drunk driving is drunk driving, whether you’re Britney or Justin. Let’s not make excuses for any adult who chooses to act irresponsibly.
Exactly.
It’s unacceptable regardless of who the driver is.
This.
Still rooting for her but she obviously still needs a lot of help and structure. This could also be another cry for help. I hope she gets the help she needs before she either self destructs or seriously harms someone.
It’s so devastating that she has no one good around her. Her family and her ex-husband are all horrible parasites, taking from her and not caring about her as a person. And because she was so young when she got famous, she has no real friends either. It’s honestly terrible, and there is no obvious solution.
At this point she’s in her mid-40’s. How many turning points and wake-up calls does a person need? I guess as many as she needs.
Well you forget that she has been basically forced to perform for 13 years, with no autonomy on her music, on her money and on her body
Thisk kind of trauma took a tool on her .
During her legal battles, a judge said she was a habitual abuser of drugs and alcohol. Mental health and addiction can be intertwined, but they are also 2 separate challenges. I hope she has support for both.
Oh no. I’m still rooting for her.
I did not follow the Free Britney movement, so I can’t speak with any confidence about what her original conservatorship was like. For the sake of argument, I’ll go ahead and assume that the public sentiment is correct and it was indeed an abusive and harmful one. However, removing her from conservatorship entirely was an overcorrection. It has been clear for several decades that she has health issues requiring one. We as a society (and particularly as Americans) get so caught up in this idea of independence and free will above all, and ignore the fact that sometimes leaving someone fully to their own devices is its own form of harm and abuse, to them and those around them.
I still think that if she was a man things would have been really different.
Poor girl needs help. If you follow her on insta, you can see she’s not doing well. I feel for her, shes been through a LOT.
It’ll be interesting to see if she is charged with a DUI or if the charges will be reduced as Justin’s were. Drunk drivers shouldn’t be on the road, whether it’s famous people or non-famous people. It’s not fair when someone famous has charges reduced when a regular degular does not. So yeah release the tapes on Justin and charge Britney as they would anyone else. Hopefully this will be a wake-up for her to take care of herself in whatever way that means.
I don’t know that she’s ever had a trustworthy person in her life, ever. She was a child actor so young, and then went straight into the music industry which is also full of predators, and they’re in her family too. I hope she finds peace. I just don’t know how she’ll get there, her money attracts the predators and she’s been traumatized and controlled through the regular options for getting help (therapy, meds, rehab). We’re the same age, although emotionally I think she’s still a little kid.
I keep thinking about how Britney presented during her pop super stardom- overly sexualized but she sang with a baby voice and her virginity was always creepily brought up. Go back to clips of her singing on the Mickey Mouse Club or Star Search. She sang with a stronger, more mature voice before she became the commodity known as Britney Spears. Who told her to change to singing like that? After all the disgusting Epstein info that has come out, how those predators weaseled their way into so many aspects of girls’ lives to feed their pdf file depravities, and we didn’t even know it, I shudder to think of what Britney went through. Britney is only 4 days older than I am and her image back then never sat right with me. Something always just felt very wrong. Add her leech family and the paparazzi treating her as sub-human to the mix. It would be very hard for anyone to come out of that okay. My god, that poor woman. I really hope she can find the help that will help her find peace.