Britney Spears has standoff with police over custody battle, put in involuntary psychiatric hold

**Jenna** · 01-06-08, 04:39 AM

Britney Spears was strapped to a gurney late Thursday night after a three-hour standoff involving her two toddler sons, Kevin Federline, a court-appointed child monitor, police officers, paramedics and a locked bathroom door. She was rolled out of her home in the hills near Mulholland Drive as photographers swarmed and helicopters hovered, and taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center “for her own welfare,” as one police spokeswoman put it.

In plain terms, Ms. Spears was in lockdown on a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold for treatment and evaluation, the authorities said later, speaking on condition of anonymity because of federal privacy laws. And by Friday afternoon she’d been stripped of the right even to visit with her sons.
Thursday’s ordeal came at the end of a day that began with Ms. Spears showing up for barely a quarter-hour of a scheduled two-hour deposition in her custody fight with Mr. Federline, her ex-husband. He had been given temporary full custody of their sons, Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden, 1, and was seeking to make it permanent.
Ms. Spears, 26, whose personal life has doubtless made more money for the celebrity tabloids, news shows and Web sites than she ever made as a singer, spent time with the boys later in the day and was scheduled to return them to Mr. Federline’s bodyguard at 7 p.m. at her home in the Summit, a gated enclave of multimillion-dollar homes just off Mulholland where it meets Coldwater Canyon Drive.
But after the court-appointed monitor had already put the older boy in the car, Ms. Spears barricaded herself in a bathroom with Jayden and refused to come out, according to a member of Mr. Federline’s camp.
The police arrived at 8, and, The Los Angeles Times reported, a police supervisor said Ms. Spears had been “incoherent and arguing with officers in a way that made no sense.”
Paramedics arrived about 10:30, and Ms. Spears was taken from her home before 11 as photographers mobbed the scene, peering through the ambulance windows to snap shots that circulated on the Internet showing Ms. Spears smiling as if posing one instant, appearing distraught and disheveled the next.
Her son Sean Preston was turned over to Mr. Federline at her home, but Jayden was returned to his father at the hospital after the boy had been taken there in a second ambulance. It was unclear if he was treated or for what. Outside the hospital, meanwhile, fame-seekers and flamboyant fans gathered like fireflies, expressing hope that her downward spiral be brought to a halt before she winds up like Anna Nicole Smith.
By Friday afternoon, Mr. Federline’s lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, had persuaded Commissioner Scott Gordon of Los Angeles Superior Court, who is overseeing the custody fight, to award Mr. Federline sole legal and physical custody of their children and to suspend Ms. Spears’s visitation rights, a court spokeswoman said. A hearing is set for Jan. 14. Ms. Spears’s lawyer, Sorrell Trope, said he ultimately expected her to regain shared custody of the boys.

Britney Spears in Hospital After Standoff

KCBS-TV, via Associated Press
Britney Spears being carried to an ambulance outside her house in Los Angeles late Thursday.

By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: January 5, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/ar...ts&oref=slogin

**Shoestring** · 01-06-08, 05:27 AM

Jenna we know that is really you, I mean come on, you dont have to hide it, we know

**lewisipso** · 01-06-08, 05:47 AM

Friggin nutcase.

**suellen446** · 01-06-08, 06:42 AM

i hope she never gets anywhere near those boys again. what a shame

**Morris** · 01-06-08, 08:25 AM

Lemme see, overpaid trailer trash, routinely endangered her kids (oops! let's not forget the header one of her kids did a few years back), married an equal in the social world, love puffy lips. And the media devours and spits it out. Meanwhile, in Iraq and the Stan, good things happen. "Iraq? Has Brittney been there?"

She''l be on one of those VH1 shows about "where are they now?"

**TheeBadOne** · 01-06-08, 09:10 AM

Did she flash her money shot, again?

**countybear** · 01-06-08, 01:06 PM

D. I. L. L. I. G. A. F. ?

**10-42Adam** · 01-06-08, 01:52 PM

I think this stuff is hilarious. I love seeing rich celebs go crazy because they can't handle their money and lives...

**Pudge** · 01-06-08, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by countybear

D. I. L. L. I. G. A. F. ?

+1

There's an older guy at work that keeps up with the Brittany news like it's his job. I can't stand it, and really don't care what she does.

**xnvyflyer** · 01-06-08, 06:34 PM

What a sick freaking pathetic train wreck.

**cajunguy** · 01-06-08, 06:44 PM

The evening news just reported that Dr. Phil made a statment that poor little Brit needs some "serious medical and psychological help".
No freakin' kidding, Dr. Phil! I'm not a "Dr.", and even I know that.

Geez.

.

**Bob Loblaw** · 01-06-08, 07:14 PM

I'd still do her!

**Pudge** · 01-06-08, 07:39 PM

Originally Posted by Bob Loblaw

I'd still do her!

Bob, you'd do any one of us if ya thought you could.

**bufford408** · 01-06-08, 08:41 PM

Originally Posted by Bob Loblaw

I'd still do her!

Yea, me too...

**mack** · 01-06-08, 08:52 PM

This is just another case of who cares what this idiot does?

**Bob Loblaw** · 01-06-08, 08:54 PM

she's a total skank, so she's probably good in the sack because she knows what she's doing...plus she's crazy. those always seem to be the best ones. but not so crazy she'd rip your dick off. that is too crazy.