Britney Spears has voluntarily checked herself into rehab, a consultant for the singer confirmed to Rolling Stone and Selection. Final month, the pop star was arrested on suspicion of driving beneath the affect and booked into California’s Ventura County Predominant Jail; she was launched a couple of hours later and given a court docket date. Pitchfork has reached out to Spears’ spokesperson for remark.
On March 4, Spears was arrested by the California Freeway Patrol at 9:30 p.m. after officers acquired a name a few automobile driving erratically at a excessive pace. Upon finding the automobile, officers enforced a cease and famous that Spears, the driving force, “confirmed indicators of impairment and submitted to a sequence of area sobriety checks,” after which she was arrested for violating California Car Code part 23152(g), driving beneath the affect of a mixture of medicine and alcohol. Spears was booked into the jail at 3 a.m. and launched a couple of hours later. She’s scheduled to seem in Ventura County Superior Court docket on Could 4.
Weeks later, on March 27, Spears addressed the arrest within the caption of one in all her social media posts, which was a video of herself dancing alongside her 19-year-old son, Jayden Federline. “Thanks guys for all of your help… spending time with household and associates is such a blessing,” she wrote. “Keep sort !!!”
In 2021, Spears’ 13-year conservatorship was terminated. Her father, James “Jamie” Spears, oversaw her within the court-ordered association since its implementation in 2008. The singer began working to finish the conservatorship in 2014, and gained momentum almost seven years later when she gave an incendiary testimony in court docket begging for it to finish, revealing she needed to sue her household, and saying, “I actually imagine this conservatorship is abusive.” Jamie Spears filed to finish the conservatorship that September.
This previous February, Spears offered the rights to her music catalog to Major Wave, an organization that has spent the previous twenty years scooping up the works of Bob Marley, Whitney Houston, Prince, and plenty of others. Spears launched her most up-to-date album, Glory, in 2016, whereas her newest single was the 2023 collaboration with Will.i.am titled “Thoughts Your Enterprise.”
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