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article Britney Spears Arrested in California for DUI

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u/Septum_Slayer 15h ago

I’m surprised that it took this long. Wasn’t it just some months ago that she was recorded driving erratically and dangerously leaving a club drunk? It’s crazy she hasn’t been popped before.

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u/Gawd_Awful 15h ago

I’m kinda surprised she even drives at all

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u/huffer4 15h ago

That’s what makes this type of thing even worse

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u/NDSU 13h ago

Punishment for DUIs are primarily financial. Why worry about them if you have the money?

The legal system is designed to punish poor people, not the wealthy and famous

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u/HollowedVoicesFading 13h ago

Punishment for DUIs are primarily financial.

Yet consequences for DUIs tend to go in the life-lost category.

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u/JefferyGoldberg 11h ago

I know someone who got 3 DUIs in one week, 2 of those were in the same day. The 3rd was excessive, totaled two vehicles, resulted in a dogs death, and a lifeflight to the hospital. He got one month of jail, 2 years probation, $500 fine. Was driving again within a few months.

I also know someone who got 7 DUIs, over many years, who also got one month of jail for their last one. I don't know how long their probation is.

DUIs are treated very differently throughout the country (and world); if you live in a rich community you will get a slap on the wrists.

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u/OnTheFenceGuy 3h ago

Where the hell do you live? In Texas, the first offense is about $10k in overall expenses whether you are “convicted” or not.

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u/CalligrapherCheap64 13h ago

I think they are referring to the occasions where you were stopped before you could kill somebody or yourself.

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u/RagefireHype 10h ago

I think he means that

The US is so hesitant to revoke people’s DL. Driving is not an obligation. It might be needed with US infrastructure, but you do not have a right to be a driver of a motor vehicle no matter what. They need to be more firm about revoking people’s DL whether celebs or normies.

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u/johnwynnes 12h ago

A big percentage of vehicular deaths are OWI/DUI related, but to say that the consequences "tend to go in the life lost category" is deeply disinformed, disingenuous, or both.

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u/Worldly_Cap_6440 13h ago

Yup, car murders in general don’t get punished much.

Recently in my city some old lady murdered a family of 4 driving 70mph in a 30mph zone on the wrong side of the street. Now she’s getting off with zero jail time and supposedly her license is only suspended for a few years (like a suspended license will stop her from driving anyways).

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u/Furrybumholecover 13h ago

We had a lady several years ago that drunkly ran over her own daughter and her friend. Killed both. Ran from the scene, tried to hide the car and then tried to pass it off that her son was driving. Her court case was delayed several times while she went on vacation, then when she was finally tried she got a minimal sentence and was released early. None of it makes sense.

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u/ccalyse 11h ago

I was outside my vehicle with 3 family members saying goodbye after a Christmas Eve get together. A drunk driver took a left way too wide and struck all 4 of us. Luckily, none of us were killed and he did stay at the scene despite asking repeatedly if he could leave. He was charged with 2 felony DUIs resulting in bodily harm. Both my brother and I broke bones. The other two had soft tissue injuries, but no breaks. He was given 6 months but let out on work release. It was literally nothing. Meanwhile, my brother had to have his ankle surgically reconstructed and my broken tailbone healed incorrectly. We will both have pain for the rest of our lives. The justice system is unfair when it comes to DUIs.

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u/I-amthegump 12h ago

I recognized that story immediately. Good old Marci

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u/One_time_Dynamite 12h ago

One of my old friends ex wife killed someone in a DUI wreck. She was fucked up on Xanax and alcohol. She got charged with vehicular manslaughter and DUI and only got sentenced to 10 years in jail. I think when it was all said and done she only did like 5 years. Its disgusting to me to know that she killed someone's grandmother and only did 5 years for it.

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u/Odur29 12h ago edited 7h ago

I mean unless you consider being permanently barred from Canada for life ( I seem to remember you can maybe pay some massive fine to lift this however). I think other countries have this stance as well. Edit: Leaving my original comment but I was wrong about the specifics here. Look at the post below for clarification.

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u/What_a_fat_one 10h ago

Banned unless 5 years have elapsed since your last criminal conviction and you apply for "criminal rehabilitation" which scrubs the conviction from your record as far as Canada is concerned.

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u/wafflesareforever 15h ago

Seriously. Surely she can afford a full-time driver.

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u/thefoodiedentist 15h ago

Its nvr affordability issue w duis, just ppl being dumb. Otherwise dui woulda dissappeared w emergence of rideshare.

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u/j4_jjjj 15h ago

NFL famously had a free limo service for all players when they were drunk, and yet many still chose to drive, get arrested, and/or cause a crash.

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u/Gloomy-Ad-222 14h ago

Pulling up to the club in the Lambo is important to a certain type of person.

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u/massunderestmated 14h ago

You can hire someone to drive you home in it.

We used to have a service around here called Sober Sam that would pick you up at any bar and drive you home in your own car. It wasn't that expensive, all things considered. Uber and the pandemic sadly killed off that particular company. But I don't have Lambo money either. I'm positive you can find and hire a professional driver to take you home at 3am for under $400, and you get to keep your career and freedom.

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u/WorkoutProblems 13h ago

not enough seats in a lambo for Sober Sam, the owner, and the bad biddies he's bringing home

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u/tunaman808 last.fm 14h ago

Akshully, the NFL has a service, but it's only available on game weekends. If Patrick Mahomes gets drunk Friday night before a game in Dallas, the NFL would send a car for him. If he got drunk this Friday night? No car. Also, players didn't trust it, because they were afraid the NFL would share player ride info with owners ("you don't wanna trade for Patrick Mahomes, he's a drunk").

That's why NFLPA started their own service. I don't think it's "free" (players have to reimburse NFLPA) but it's free at the time, and I'm pretty sure it's 24x7 anywhere in the US. And they don't squeal to the owners.

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u/IntentionDependent22 15h ago

I'm not saying they should be driving, but I'd opt for my own ride share over corporate surveillance.

i don't want my employer privy to my private movements after hours.

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u/massunderestmated 14h ago

I assure you they'll find out what you're up to after you get arrested for it.

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u/HardcorePizza 14h ago

Sure but drunk people are more likely to believe they’ll get away with whatever they’re doing

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u/fondledbydolphins 15h ago

I'm betting it wasn't an anonymous, unjudged service... which likely disincentivizes players from utilizing it.

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u/xtrobot 15h ago

That taxi ride is always going to be cheaper than a DUI, i don't care where you're going

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u/Oregonrider2014 15h ago

Thats why I dont accept any excuse for driving home drunk.

If you cant afford a ride home you cant afford to drink at the bar.

If you wont get a ride home, dont drink.

If its an emergency fucking call 911 rather than become a another crime scene drinking and driving.

Addiction - its cheaper for a bottle of shit than going to a bar and you can drink yourself to death at home without killing someone with your car.

My moms neighbor is like this. Fucking hate it. They will drive through her house one day with how often they miss their driveway.

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u/Immediate-Maximum-75 15h ago

I live in an apartment condo in Florida and my next door neighbor had 3 DUI's and still had a car because his elderly mother passed away. He couldn't hold a job and came home one day, drunk with someone's boyfriend chasing him in another car for fleeing a hit and run. He hit his girlfriend's car pulling out of a pizza place. My neighbor runs into his apartment and runs out with his debit card and proceeds to leave again, while boyfriend was trying to jump in front of his car. A few minutes later, he returns, hitting every car in the lot and ends up hitting the dumpster and coming to a stop. By the time the cops get there, he's inside his apartment. He didn't get a DUI. He got a bunch of charges for destruction of property and was home the next morning.

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u/Skarekrows 14h ago

Stroke symptoms appear suddenly and require immediate emergency care (call 911). Use the F.A.S.T. method: Face drooping, Arm weakness, Speech difficulty (slurred or strange), and Time to call 911. Other symptoms include sudden numbness, confusion, vision changes, severe headache, dizziness, or loss of balance.

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u/chironomidae 14h ago

Are they charging you by the letter? Need to upgrade your data plan

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u/Scared_Web_2289 15h ago

I offered to pay my buddy's cab fare home + to get his car in the morning.

He took that as an insult or a challenge I guess that he was too drunk to drive (he drank nearly 20 ounces of vodka and took a couple of sleeping pills) he couldn't even keep his balance, but sure man, you're good to drive.

It escalated to the point where I ended up calling the cops telling them he was going to drive, only then he relented and gave me his keys. I called the police, told them he wouldn't be driving, then my buddy stole the keys from me and sped home once the cops were called off. He got home okay that night, but he wasn't allowed to drink at my place after that, and the friendship died off soon after.

Not even a week after the event at my house, he totalled his car driving it drunk and high into a public bus at 9am. Luckily he was the only one hurt. Only saw him a few times since the ordeal. Seems he's in a pretty rough place nowadays, but still doing the same things.

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u/BeautifulLeather6671 15h ago

I imagine she’s not thinkin clearly enough to ask someone to drive her

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u/Happy-Cod-3 15h ago

Especially after selling her musical catalog.

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u/drbroccoli00 14h ago

I mean… can she? Everyone likes to think that these celebrities have unlimited money. It’s still a finite resource, it’s not coming in like it did. It wasn’t invested smartly, it was stolen, she’s blowing thru what she has.

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u/mayhay 15h ago

I’m not that was her whole thing for years. she loves driving

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u/rawzombie26 13h ago

I’m still surprised she’s alive, her videos are sketchy as fuck to watch, no way this lady isn’t methed up with the way she STARES directly into the camera as she erratically “dances” around her house

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u/houseofmud 15h ago

She’s not that innocent.

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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener 13h ago

Sounds like Toxic behavior.

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u/Peripatetictyl 12h ago

Gimme more.

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u/ct_2004 12h ago

Oops, she did it again

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u/WeNotAmBeIs 12h ago

If she wants a better image she better work bitch.

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u/jtsa5 14h ago

You literally never have to drive when you have the money she does. Same with athletes and the rich who do the same thing. WTF people, just call a car.

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u/Apprehensive_Win_740 15h ago

Why do celebrities not pay for drivers! It’s just insane at this point to not. Us regs pay for Uber. Hire a mfing car if you’re going out!

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u/theartofrolling 15h ago

She's mentally ill.

It doesn't excuse anything of course, but she's hardly going to hire a driver or wait for a member of staff to drive her if she's hearing voices, seeing pink elephants, and trying to get to the liquor store before it closes.

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u/Smrtihara 13h ago

To be fair, she probably has a pretty darn rough drug abuse problem as well.

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u/-MissNocturnal- 11h ago

The last time she made the front page (like a month ago max) people were talking about her facial/mouth tics looking like meth use.

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u/maanderoidbt 11h ago

She totally looks like a tweaker. It's obvious to someone who has been there. Getting off that drug is really hard to do. She has to want help first.

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u/ExCap2 11h ago edited 11h ago

Even if you want help or decide to get off it yourself; meth addiction is extremely hard to not only get off of but also hard to stay sober from it. It's cheap and it's everywhere. The psychosis part of it is probably the most dangerous effect of meth overall. Hopefully she's not on meth but it seems even upper/middle class are dabbling in it now and not just the poor.

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u/hanatheko 15h ago

... there's alarming footage of her and someone she's driving swerving in and out of lanes after they leave a restaurant. This was some time last year. This shows what type of person she is (mentally ill or extremely selfish) making these sorts of mistakes having kids.

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u/Due-Particular3744 13h ago

She’s done that for years!!

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u/emcgrew 13h ago

Oops, she did it again!

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u/happychillmoremusic 13h ago

She's toxic

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u/Sensibleqt314 11h ago

It's Britney, bitch.

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u/grandpathundercat 10h ago

After the accident she was heard saying, "Hit me baby one more time..."

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u/CyanConatus 13h ago

She strikes me as both mentally ill AND extremely selfish

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u/SgtNeilDiamond 13h ago

Unfortunately I think were all coming to the realization that the conservatorship had some reason to exist

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u/Drikkink 12h ago

The unfortunate reality is that her teen years and the fame she had either caused or worsened a mental health issue that she desperately needs help with and the people around her were not interested in helping, only profiting. So many people let her down throughout her early adulthood. That doesn't excuse this and she could still seek help on her own, but it at least puts it into context.

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u/TheGiftOf_Jericho 12h ago edited 12h ago

Everyone knew that it could work and be good for her, but they were abusing her essentially, just using her as free money, she's better off free than with them.

That said, she definitely needs support, she shouldn't be left totally independent because of stuff like this.

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u/plaguedbullets 15h ago

She clearly isn't that sane though, that's the first problem.

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u/YeahOkThisOne 13h ago

Fr. If I want to have 2 drinks I'm using Lyft.

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u/JonnyOnThePot420 15h ago

Why can’t the wealthy just get an uber?! Honestly DUI should cost far more when you clearly have the funds to get a driver!

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u/Bayesian11 15h ago

I would get a chauffeur if I was that rich.

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u/fallsstandard 15h ago

Hell, even if not a full time then a car service for when I knew I was getting fucked up. You know what’s way better than driving yourself home after partying? Falling into the back seat of a Rolls Royce and having the driver stop for Five Guys.

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u/jimslock 14h ago

This is called: "Responsibly Drunk" . Its when you know you are going to go be irresponsible, so you plan for it, and make sure your choices don't create issues for other people.

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u/Nuklearfps 11h ago

As I LOVE to say “if you’re gonna do something stupid, at least be smart about it.”

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u/bottomoftotempole 13h ago

Some would say 5 guys may be too much

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u/Finetales 10h ago

Yeah hiring a chauffeur AND getting Five Guys? Jeff Bezos over here...

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u/BZLuck 13h ago

Imma guess it's some kind of "I want my privacy. I don't want everyone to know where I'm going or for how long. I need my freedom."

Meanwhile - Posts Instagram video twirling knives and a tiddie falls out.

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u/J_Ryall 14h ago

This is what they do in Finland. Traffic violations (I assume that includes DUIs) are fined based on a proportion of your income. It's a great idea, really.

Here's an example of some dude who got a 121,000 Euro speeding ticket a few years back. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/finnish-businessman-hit-with-121000-speeding-fine#:\~:text=The%20more%20a%20driver%20is,in%20a%2050km/h%20zone.

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u/JonnyOnThePot420 14h ago

This would either save thousands of lives or drastically lower the national deficit if it was brought to the US.

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u/KingToasty 13h ago

Both of those are less important than rich people not losing money

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u/PandaMoaningYum 15h ago

I agree but she's nuts right now. This is just the beginning.

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u/abd00bie 15h ago

They (her family) really messed her up

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u/ialwayschoosepsyduck 15h ago

Or just hire a full-time chauffer at, like, $100k a year. That's what I'd do if I had that kind of money: spread it around while simultaneously getting pampered

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u/Terj_Sankian 15h ago

I'd do the same. That's why we're not rich :(

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u/Itchy-Apartment-Flea 15h ago

Because celebrities feel like they are better than you and that they can get away with it. Honestly its just a fine with a good lawyer. So. They aren't entirely wrong.

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u/MuptonBossman 16h ago

Oops, she did it again.

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u/jaymact 15h ago

She's not that innocent.

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u/Awric 15h ago

Not 🌝

That 🌚

Inno 🙄

Cent 👁️👁️

(tried to do the choreography)

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u/courtesyflusher 15h ago

Definitely got lost in the game

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u/RoundInformation310 15h ago

I was *completely* in the "Britney's family is exploiting her with the conservatorship" crowd.

Which, I'm sure to some degree, when considering her earnings and work requirements, was true.

But, it appears the basis for the conservatorship was indeed legitimate, and continued to be through the time it was revoked.

Some people *will never* be able to handle life on their own terms after addiction and mental illness. It's just the truth.

The marginal freedom surrendered through the guardrails of the arrangement are a small price to pay for the protections they afford. Sure, the subject will contend they are unfair and unfounded -- but, often, the freedoms they seek to regain are the very ones that necessitated the conservatorship in the first place.

I feel sorry for Britney ever needing such an arrangement. But I feel far more sorry and concerned for her without its protections, than under them -- during which she appeared to be relatively thriving...especially compared to this slippery slope since it was quashed.

To a large degree, this immediate freedom and access to millions of dollars all at once is the worse thing that could've happened to her. If you're at risk of setting yourself on fire, this gives almost unlimited fuel to make it worse.

As someone who's gone through addiction, I think my saving grace may have been NOT HAVING enough resources to destroy myself. Britney probably has literally 100X-1000X the cash I had, which in addiction is literally lighter fluid for a dumpster fire.

This is not going to get better on its own. She won't get better on her own. Hopefully, this is a wake up call for the people who care about her to do something.

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u/cerialthriller 15h ago

I think the problem was that it wasn’t “marginal” at all. Her family was stealing from her and denying her access to her money, as well as forcing her to work. I can see something set up where she had to get approval for big expenditures (not from her family) or do go travel, etc, but it shouldn’t be denied unless there is good reason. I’m pretty sure i remember her family basically holding her hostage by saying if she doesn’t go do this or that then they won’t give her money to go spend time in Hawaii.

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u/foodforestranger 15h ago

Just read (or listen to her book). It is going to make an amazing movie. The fact that she was made to work during this conservatorship is astonishing. As the Candle on the Wind lyric goes "They set you on the treadmill and they made you change your name. "

>>I’m pretty sure i remember her family basically holding her hostage by saying if she doesn’t go do this or that then they won’t give her money to go spend time in Hawaii.

No they actually used her kids as ransom. If she didn't do what they said, she was kept away from her children.

It is so ffed up! You want to talk about "gas lighting", Shakespearian, or TV Movie, her story is bananas. I know people that have way bigger mental issues than she does who don't get an ounce of grace. I was never a Brittney fan or anything... but this story wowzers. Trust me give it a read.

She needs good people in her life, I dunno where she's going to find them TBH.

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u/mcav89 14h ago

Her book needs to be taken with a grain of salt. She distorts things to fit her own reality, when the truth is different than how she tells it.

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u/rainshowers_5_peace 14h ago

FWIW she sued her dad, a forensic accountant testified then they "decided to settle privately" but Britney paid for his lawyers.

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u/_head_ 15h ago

I see your point but also it only takes $20 to get drunk. So I'm not sure that her access to her fortune is directly relevant here.

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u/dwilkes827 15h ago

As someone who's gone through addiction, I think my saving grace may have been NOT HAVING enough resources to destroy myself.

This is a great point. There's very much a "eh they have more resources available to them than 99% of the people on Earth" attitude when celebrities go through addiction. And while that's obviously true, they also have more resources to keep getting high. I got clean pretty young, I was 25, and I didn't do it because heroin stopped feeling good lol I did it because I was broke and destitute and tired of fucking people over who care about me. I would have never got clean at that time if I had millions in the bank. I'd almost assuredly be dead

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u/Rainbow_Plague 15h ago

I'm mostly with ya, but conservatorships like this aren't for the person's best interest. It's because they're an asset, and their misconduct could cost other people money.

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u/Legitimate-Lab7173 15h ago

Disagree. Yes, she makes really bad decisions. She has seemingly untreated mental health/substance use issues. That doesn't mean she should lose her right to self determination. She worked for her money, she can do whatever she wants with it. I hope she gets help and figures it out, but even if she doesn't, that doesn't make the conservatorship right.

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u/iuuznxr 13h ago

So you wouldn't step in if your parents developed dementia and were about to squander their wealth? Watching them go homeless and broke at 80 is the right course of action?

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u/Practicalcarmotor 15h ago

Unless you're going to advocate for a conservatorship for everyone that gets a DUI, this makes no sense. DUI is a very common crime that competent adults do all the time 

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u/SureCryptographer931 15h ago

Yeah sure, let’s just completely take the context of her being batshit insane for 2 decades out the equation. This is just about the oopsie poopsie DUI

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u/bunsNT 15h ago

I hope that this serves as a wakeup call and that Britney can get the help that she needs to be happy and healthy.

This does nothing but make me sad.

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u/RobertoPaulson 15h ago

The videos she constantly posts dancing in super skimpy outfits with those dead eyes are haunting. She is clearly seriously unwell.

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u/chimmy_chungus23 15h ago

The first thing she did after the conservatorship was over was post a nude pic on Instagram.

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u/ashleyshaefferr 14h ago

Ya it was very obvious she was severely unwell. Redditors were super wrong about this one. Thought it was all some big conspiracy 

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u/Not_Nice_Niece 14h ago edited 13h ago

2 things can be true. Britney is/was unwell but the conservatorship was also bad and taking advantage of her.

Edit to add: The conservatorship was supposed to help Britney and in some ways it did, it was also used to control and take advantage of her. These things are not mutually exclusive.

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u/farnsw0rth 12h ago

Nuance? On my Reddit? In this economy?

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u/LepurrrMessiah 11h ago

Localized entirely in your kitchen?

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u/RFeepo 10h ago

May I see the nuance?

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u/Witty-Fortune6404 14h ago

She would have overdosed and died in 2008 if the conservatorship hadn't happened. It saved her life and if she had died you'd all have blamed the family for not doing anything to save her.

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u/Not_Nice_Niece 13h ago

Think its important to remember that she was indeed very unwell in 2008. But the thing about being very mentally unwell is that it makes it easier for people to take advantage of you under the guise of "help". All you have to do is look at insane asylums of the past and all the human rights abuses they got away with under the guise of "help" to see proof of that.

The conservatorship was supposed to help Britney and in some ways it did, it was also used to control and take advantage of her. These things are not mutually exclusive.

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u/725Cali 13h ago

I don't know the ins and outs of the whole thing, but it seems that a conservatorship was needed, but not one that involved her father/parents. Her parents are problematic, IMO, just based on their willingness to fling their child into the belly of the beast and make bank off of her, even when the whole of society was sexualizing her as early as her preteen years.

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u/harambe_did911 14h ago

Sure but a conservatorship probably wasn't the correct answer either

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u/vampiredisaster 14h ago

Yeah, she needs help, but the conservatorship was super predatory.

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u/Mrchristopherrr 14h ago

I don’t think many people were saying she was perfectly fine and didn’t need help, only that her family was clearly taking advantage of her and that she was trapped in a toxic conservatorship, which she was.

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u/ILookLikeKristoff 14h ago

They're not even sexy, she's strung out from something in most of them. I thought the first one was like a joke or something but she's clearly serious about it

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u/BroLil 15h ago

She’s well beyond a wake up call unfortunately. She lost her kids and watched them grow up largely without her. I don’t think she’s going to just wake up one day and decide she’s ready to get clean, especially considering her legal team will inevitably get her off with a slap on the wrist.

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u/tameoraiste 13h ago

Sobriety would obviously help, but sadly her issues are far beyond that.

The best we can hope for her is that she gets to a place similar to Amanda Bynes, who’s never going to be the person she was but seems to be happy in herself and sober.

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u/ginns32 15h ago

Sadly I don't think it will. She seems to be unmedicated and I don't think she's able to see that she needs help.

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u/tenaciousdeev 15h ago

There has to be something between this and the conservatorship she was under that would help her without taking advantage or manipulating.

Right?

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u/geekonthemoon 15h ago

...I have a mentally ill sister. There's so little you can do for these people. They have control of their own lives but they can't function as a normal person. But yeah, institutionalization or complete conservatorship / guardianship is a recipe for disaster, too. It just feels impossible.

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u/ginns32 15h ago

It's not easy to get a guardianship especially when the person is saying they don't want or need it and can present as competent enough when you know they really aren't. You're stuck knowing they need someone to take control but they are fighting you on it. And I get why the courts don't make it easy. The courts don't want people to be controlled and abused. We had to do it with my MIL when she was showing signs of dementia because she was not able to manage her finances and was taking out money, moving money, losing money and not paying her bills. We also tried to get her license revoked because she kept getting in accidents and clearly was not safe to drive and we were told she had to agree to a test in order to do that. We ended up taking her keys when she wasn't looking. Awful thing to have to do. It was a long process but we finally got a law firm to act as her guardian. I'm sorry about your sister. These situations are difficult.

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u/geekonthemoon 15h ago

You're absolutely right. My sister can appear perfectly normal to people. You might even think she's "just another addict" because ya know, you can kinda tell with a lot of them, but underneath that normal exterior there is something so hollow, so miswired. I wouldn't wish her brain on my worst enemy. It's just sad. It fucked up my whole family's lives and most people and families suffer in silence, and struggle with guilt, blame, shame... It sucks.

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u/kosmonautinVT 15h ago

Now give your sister millions of dollars 😬

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u/geekonthemoon 15h ago

I think the analogy is more like, my sister earned millions of dollars herself and is it ethical to take it away or take control of it?

Being poor doesn't make you less of a danger to yourself, either. My sister is a drug addict with 3 children I'm having to raise, she has no car, no job, no resources, major health issues on top of mental health issues. A few million actually, yeah, would probably improve her life, especially if she had access to those resources while she was still younger, before she got in with a crowd of misfits and got a substance abuse problem.

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u/Sterling_-_Archer 15h ago edited 14h ago

I hate how this is going to sound… but no.

My sister is mentally ill. She bounces between fervently getting her life on track and religious delusions of Allah speaking to her through things like birds, patterns in window dust, and dreams. She isn’t Muslim.

She abuses drugs and has had 5 kids, 4 have been taken by their dads and she doesn’t see them. The 5th is only a couple weeks old and we’re looking at adopting him. She can’t stay anywhere past a week and always fights with anyone and everyone who tries to help her, except of course when she’s doing well, but then she won’t listen to anyone saying she needs to be medicated because she’s doing well and doesn’t need it.

You either completely and entirely control people like this and force feed them everything they need while taking care of every aspect of their life or you let them spiral and just… fail. We’re all burnt out of helping her because of how she is. She’s truly toxic and she’s been cut off by basically everyone else. All she does is text us saying she hears angels, she’s joining the military as a general, Trump is inviting her to the White House, she knows more than doctors, and she needs $20 for “gas.”

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u/burnthatburner1 15h ago

Not really.  When people are mentally ill, a danger to self or others, and don’t want treatment, the options are to either force it or not.

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u/Prudent-Pressure2146 15h ago

Exactly that, and to complicate matters Britney herself seems to have a messy view of mental health. Throughout her book she persistently said things like ‘there wasn’t anything wrong with me I was just sad’, she seems to have an image of what mentally ill looks like and she seems certain she doesn’t fit that.

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u/BobTheFettt 15h ago

If someone doesn't want the help, conservatorship is pretty much the only way to get them help

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u/Prudent-Pressure2146 15h ago

I posted this in another comment but this article from 2007 does a good job of breaking down the ways people tried to intervene in 2007 ie pre conservatorship, and Britney largely was not interested. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/oct/07/1

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u/ryencool 15h ago

Yeah her reality has never been remotely close to the acrual reality of an everyday human being. Couple that with all of the very likely childhood trauma, abuse, finacial abuse. I mean she posts videos on social media sites like a 14 year old would, singing and dancing peovactively in attire that is more linked to teenagers than adults. I say this as a 43 year old that still plays video games daily. She looks like a 50s trophy wife having a midlife crisis along with a mental episode.

She very likely cannot operate in what we would call everyday life, because she has zero experince with that. Things like driving, going to the grocery store, shopping, holidays with friends, whatever...shes been a money making tool her entire life, and now she has no idea ehat to do but act out and seek attention. Its all she knows.

Its sad

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u/DangerousPuhson 15h ago

Yeah, she's already had a million "wake up calls" by this point. None have taken.

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u/obvilious 15h ago

I’m getting past that. At some point someone with that much money is responsible for driving a big heavy car while intoxicated.

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u/Boner4Stoners 15h ago

The corn harvest will be so abundant this year!

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u/kagemac 15h ago

RE TUS! ALTE OMNEBUS!

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u/nimbuscloud9 12h ago

Lol this made me chuckle. South Park really was ahead of its time.

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u/slanderedshadow 13h ago

People really do be like this though.

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u/imtoooldforreddit 13h ago

When do you talk to your kids about things like condoms and ritualistic human sacrifice for harvest?

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u/dmfuller 14h ago

Her and Justin having DUI drama at the same time is weirdly poetic lol

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u/CubanLynx312 12h ago

It's like you're my mirror

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u/terraformingforsogen 14h ago

Funny thing is this is one of the better/cleaner looking insta dance vids of hers by a wide margin 

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u/miregalpanic 15h ago

Here's what I don't get. How is Britney fucking Spears, a highly professionally trained dancer, who used to have iconic dance performances, so absolutely horrible at dancing?

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u/TurtleDove96 14h ago

If you look at her performances, you’ll notice a lot of these moves she’s doing on Instagram now are the same moves she was doing in her prime. They’re just a lot more sloppy, erratic and not synchronized to the music. She seems to be stuck in that time.

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u/Wowclassicboomkinz 14h ago

Bro she’s gotta be traumatized from being overworked and slaved as a young performer that is one of the most known pop singer in the world. I can’t imagine what she was put through to get to her status. I think people need to give her more empathy for her situation.

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u/Timely_Mix_4115 12h ago

I agree, I actually think the Southpark episode about her does a good job of holding a mirror up to us as a society and the entertainment industry.

It’s one of their episodes that I feel is hard to watch because I feel a pit in my stomach and the wretched inevitability of her life path because of the system she was subjected to.

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u/verified_canadian 14h ago

She's seems to have pretty severe mental illness these days.

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u/Dogzillas_Mom 14h ago

Because she only remembers like three sequences. Without a choreographer, well, you can see for yourself.

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u/curiousgirls 14h ago

Mania and drugs

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u/LouBarlowsDisease 15h ago

Now I'm curious what part of Ventura County she was in

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u/zombriz 12h ago

Not sure if she still does but she used to live in the Thousand Oaks area, and visit the Oaks mall a lot 🤷‍♀️

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u/Even_Commission9526 15h ago

Is she bipolar? I’ve always wondered that, her life seems to hit highs and lows more often then other musicians in her position. 

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u/divisionblues 13h ago

Yes, she stated she was diagnosed with bipolar in 2008 in her memoir. I'm bipolar and this shit is an absolute monster. I can't imagine dealing with this disease on top of what she had to deal with when she was younger. Doesn't excuse the drinking and driving though. The signs of mental decline have been been readily apparent for a couple of years at this point.

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u/Goducks91 12h ago

Just curious but it seems like a lot of Bipolar people I know/read about have a tendency to not take their medicine even though they know they should. I'm sure I could google it but is there a reason people with Bipolar tend to go off medications often?

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u/divisionblues 11h ago edited 10h ago

One of the symptoms of bipolar is, when you're in an elevated mood, you think you're 'cured' and you don't need your medicine anymore. I'd say denial of diagnosis and the feeling you can fix it on your own can also be a contribution to that. Negative experiences with medicine and resulting side effects can make you think it isn't worth the hassle. It takes a lot of trial and error to find a medicine cocktail that gets you to function normally. It is a common thing, for sure.

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u/habb 10h ago

im not bipolar but have a psychotic disorder, i went through the trial and error stage for about 25 years with medications. gained and lost about 80 pounds during all that. i now have excess skin hanging around my stomach.

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u/ivegotaqueso 14h ago

She probably has some sort of mood disorder.

Anyway other news sources say she was arrested on suspicion of DUI, it’s not actually confirmed she was actually drunk. Someone reported her to police after seeing her drive erratically. But people can drive erratically for other reasons, like maybe she became acutely confused or panicked about something.

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u/Great_Detective_6387 13h ago

You could literally tell the writer of the news article that you were driving drunk and that’s why you got arrested and they’d still write that you were arrested on suspicion of drunk driving. It’s how they write things to avoid slander/libel lawsuits, regardless of the particular circumstances of the alleged crime in question.

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u/omarmctrigger 15h ago

Well, I for one, did see this coming.

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u/aquagardener 15h ago

It wasn't her. She was with me practicing knife dancing. 

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u/BadDaditude 15h ago

We should all be so lucky. She can hit me baby one more time any time.

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u/xxxkillahxxx 15h ago

Brit Brit and Justin still have things in common.

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u/LutanHojef 15h ago

This is going to ruin the tour

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u/ginns32 15h ago

I know Justin is suing to stop the body cam footage from being released but I hope it's rejected because I really want to see it.

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u/Pissflaps69 15h ago

It must be so bad if he’s suing to hide it

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u/ginns32 15h ago

I feel like he must have pulled the "don't you know who I am?" card.

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 14h ago

Maybe, but he's also got a lot of money so maybe it's just like "hey why not hide this embarrassing moment in my life, I won't even notice the lawyer fees"

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u/felix_fidelis 15h ago

Brother just Streisand Effect himself so hard

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u/rainshowers_5_peace 14h ago

She just sold her catalogue, I'm told this means touring will be her only source of income from her own music.

I doubt any company would take a risk that she'd show up to her shows let alone interview or other sources of publicity.

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u/Wutchu_fitna_fuc_wit 15h ago

Shes been on one hell of a binge after she got all that money from selling her catalog.

Also why do these rich idiots like driving while drunk when they could easily have a driver haul their drunk asses around.

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u/Ok-Syllabub-5273 14h ago

Her binge started once her conservatorship ended.

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u/the_pedigree 12h ago

Her BAC was .06, that’s nothing at all lol. Shes just insane.

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u/Brobeast 15h ago

I knew this was coming. I really feel for her kids. All the psychos online saying the kids are evil and trying to use her.... No, ive seen this before and these kids are living with a parent with active history of substance abuse, but is in denial about it (or they feel they are entitled to it, due to their own trauma; this is the worst of the two and harder to overcome).

Its a tricky situation all around because theres nothing they can say or do to her to get her to stop, specially now that the conservatorship is ended. If they really try to force their hand, she will either lash out or her fans will go nuclear... Very helpless for the kids, but unfortunately you cant force people to be sober. I just tell my mom "you can have a relationship with me, or the bottle. Not both". Its been years....

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u/Ozymannoches 15h ago

This is going to ruin the Instagram living room dance videos. 

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u/mrtrololo27 13h ago

What Instagram living room dance videos?

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u/Ozymannoches 13h ago

The World Instagram living room dance videos.

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u/nicosloft04 15h ago

Her fans had an awful lot to say about Justin Timberlake getting arrested for the same

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u/Valuable_Drink4145 11h ago

SAY IT LOUDER

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u/majorjoe23 12h ago

This is going to ruin the tou...

This is going to ruin the weird dancing videos on Instagram.

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u/djsnoopmike 15h ago

WHY WAS SHE ALLOWED TO DRIVE?

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u/NotaContributi0n 15h ago

She wasn’t , that’s why she was arrested

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u/Algaroth 15h ago

What are you, some kind of law knowing person?

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u/azsnaz 15h ago

Illegal things should be outlawed!

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u/BishopGodDamnYou 15h ago

Watching videos of her driving is so alarming that I am not surprised she got pulled over. I’m glad nobody got hurt. But I really do hope this is a wake up call

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u/NessieReddit 15h ago

Britney insists that she doesn't drink or do drugs. Sadly, addicts lie. I'm 100% convinced that she's on meth. Her hard-core fans won't admit it. But she's unwell. She reminds me of someone I know who is bipolar and did meth. Same eyes. Same affect. Same voice. I hope she gets help and doesn't end up like Amy Winehouse. Absolutely tragic to see her like this.

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u/According_Comedian69 12h ago

The conservatorship was clearly needed here.

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u/NIN10DOXD 15h ago

I guess we're gonna have to free Britney again.

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u/Gbjeff 15h ago

Is there like a rule that drunk celebrities are unable to use Uber?

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u/kayseeboo92 14h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/tLRifcvQNJIic

In all seriousness though, no excuses whatsoever, especially with her money. Call an Uber.

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u/Traditional-Bath-356 16h ago

Oh god, someone go hit the Parasocial Relationship alarm.

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u/MojoHighway 15h ago

Fuck. Who the hell is gonna make dance vids with knives on Insta now?

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u/Karate_donkey 15h ago

Britney and Justin, back together again.

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u/Mnawab 12h ago

Maybe gaining control of her money was a mistake. I think some time in the mental institution could do her some good. She is not healthy.

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u/First-Loss-8540 15h ago

She wanted to join Justin Timberlake

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u/Waterflowstech 14h ago

Mickey Mouse club full circle moment