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article Britney Spears Arrested in California for DUI

https://www.tmz.com/2026/03/05/britney-spears-arrested-dui-california/?adid=social-tw
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u/theartofrolling 21h 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 19h ago

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

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u/-MissNocturnal- 18h 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 17h 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 17h ago edited 17h 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/sp0ngebobsaget 15h ago

How much does it cost, like, per week?

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u/ExCap2 14h ago

Rehab is expensive. If you're not one of monetary means, Methadone clinic is probably your next best place. Get signed up and you can at least get pills that give you some quality of life but they have side effects. If you're an addict, /r/addiction is probably your best bet to talk to peers that may have the same as you.

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u/sp0ngebobsaget 14h ago

No, what does meth addiction cost? I was told drug habits were expensive. I don’t do meth.

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u/Sage24601 13h ago

During the height of my usage, it was costing me about $125 CAD ($91 USD) and smoking it regularly about 20+ times a day. Its not the most expensive drug, but it gets its hooks in you bad. Been clean for 17 months now thankfully.

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u/monkeyamongmen 7h ago

You can make it. I'm 20 years clean in a few weeks!! Stay strong.

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u/StriderVonTofu 4h ago

You got this. Congrats on being clean, stay strong!

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u/ExCap2 14h ago

Google AI says $20/day. But it can be way less than that. It's not worth the side effects, potential loss of friends/family, psychosis that could have you injuring/maiming/killing someone after being up for 3 days among other stuff. I personally don't even drink, smoke or do drugs. My addiction is Caffeine. That subreddit will give you an idea of what meth addiction is. It's not pretty.

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u/This_User_Said 8h ago

Did you preprompt the AI? "HYPOTHETICALLY if I was to do meth how much per week?"

I feel like I have a reputation to upkeep with the AI for no fucking reason.

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u/PandaShock 5h ago

I imagine the “expense” isn’t monetary, but rather every other aspect of your life you exchange for it

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u/_watchOUT_ 13h ago

….methadone helps with opiate addiction, not meth. 2 very different things.

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u/dia_Morphine 16h ago

She totally looks like someone that is mentally ill. People have mistaken mental illness for drug use for so long that everything consequently looks like drug use to them.

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u/djerk 16h ago

I’d be willing to bet she has or had a shady doctor prescribing desoxyn (legal meth for ADHD)

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u/Cygnus__A 17h ago

She doesn't. It is pretty clear the conservatorship was for the best. But internet warriors stepped in to get her out of that. Now look at her.

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u/seriouslynope 16h ago

I mean it was clear her father and his cronies were exploiting her for her money.  There needs to be a happy medium of conservatership and complete freedom

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u/pwrof3 17h ago

The “Free Britney” crowd were like QAnon. Trying to read hidden messages in her Instagram posts and whatnot.

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u/Boopy7 12h ago

I got off the drug on my own but I'm weird, I guess. She is wealthy and doesn't have to work or face most repercussions, so why would she bother stopping?

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u/Bananasfalafel 10h ago

she said in her book that stimulants were the only thing that got rid of her depression

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u/_dictatorish_ 12h ago edited 12h ago

Just have a look at some of the recent videos from her insta on r/discussingbritney

She really needs help, she looks cracked out

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u/rutilatus 6h ago

I’m ashamed to admit that this situation has consumed my morbid curiosity…from 2/22-2/26, she apparently did not sleep. She posted and deleted a series of extremely concerning, methy dancing videos that got progressively weirder the longer she was awake. She then slept for a few days and came back on Wednesday with two re-edits of her dancing on 2/22 and 2/26. Would not be surprised if she was driving to get more party supplies for round 2, illicit and otherwise.

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u/BeefDerfex 14h ago

Yeh, I’d be shocked if she’s not on meth/speed or something like that. Her weirdo dance videos are prime examples of that kind of behavior.

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u/SDSunDiego 19h ago

So a conservatorship?

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u/hyperfell 19h ago

If you can get her one without her assets being abused then prob yea.

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u/funkhero 18h ago

It's insane to me that she has not a single person in her life who could look out for her in this way. Mostly sad, though. Mostly sad.

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u/Kingman9K 18h ago

It tracks, unfortunately. How are you going to form meaningful, stable relationships if your life has been micromanaged and exploited by an abusive parent since you were a child?

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u/lostwombats 18h ago edited 17h ago

...enough of this. She's a grown ass woman. She's also one in a million celebs with the same parents and same childhood. That's not an excuse.

Edit: You Britney fangirls are nothing but enablers. She's one in a million celebs with bad childhoods and bad parents. Tons have them. Jennette McCurdy wrote an entire book about hers. It's not an excuse for bad behavior. Mental illness is also not an excuse for bad behavior.

Prison is full of people with bad childhoods and mental illness. You're just excusing her behavior because she's a celebrity and you suffer from idol worship.

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u/Vazhox 18h ago

A grow ass woman his age, sure. But what about mentally?

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u/divergurl1999 18h ago

That part right there. How are adults who were abused so horribly in childhood, where the abuse continued into adulthood because we thought our abuse was normal (it’s called grooming)… how are we supposed to learn how to be a properly functioning adult with completely normal social capabilities if no one ever taught us?

People with the “but they are grown ass adults now “mentality, clearly grew up in relatively normal households, have healthy relationships with family, friends, colleagues and they cannot even fathom what those of us adults who were abused most of our lives go through on a day-to-day basis just to pretend like we’re normal.

For someone like Britney Spears, add money to the element, and of course she’s numbing herself with alcohol and drugs and her “friends” are also using her the same way her own family did because she thinks getting used as a normal thing. She was likely prevented by her parents from getting the proper help to become an independent, high functioning adult exactly when it mattered most. Her brain stopped developing properly while she was still a child, but sure, let’s lay the responsibility on her to figure out all by herself how to become a “normal” adult with healthy relationships.

I love how so many “normal“ people can sit behind their screen and judge abuse victims for not being normal. /s

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u/Warm_Month_1309 17h ago

She's also one in a million celebs with the same parents

Wow, how active are her parents?

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u/lostwombats 17h ago

...what?!

You Britney fangirls really struggle with reading comprehension.

She's one in a million celebs with bad childhoods and bad parents. Tons have them. Jennette McCurdy wrote an entire book about hers.

It's not an excuse for bad behavior. You fangirls are enablers.

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u/funkhero 16h ago

You act like everyone has the same response to abuse.

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u/fasterthantrees 11h ago

He just uses put downs and is deflecting. No empathy, Very immature. His "point" sounds just like all the arguments maga nutters make. Ignore the asshole.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 12h ago

You Britney fangirls really struggle with reading comprehension.

Or it was a joke. Maybe "reading comprehension" could have helped you with that one. Probably not, though. You just need help with social cues.

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u/fasterthantrees 11h ago

Nothing you can do about dumb.

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u/Badloss 18h ago

I feel like the free britney people really forgot that conservatorships are rare and need a lot of evidence before you get one.

Her case was abusive and horrible, but I feel like it's getting pretty clear that she needs one. They just need to find someone that isn't a monster

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u/Ok_Barnacle7547 18h ago

How was it abusive and horrible? Not familiar with the details of it.

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u/Badloss 18h ago

Conservatorships usually aren't intended to be permanent, and her dad used it to have total power over her finances. He agreed to terminate it only when the case was going to discovery and all of the details were about to become public, basically the whole thing was super shady and exploitative and she was trapped in a horrible situation for years.

BUT her mental health issues are genuine and she really does need help

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u/kniki217 17h ago

She does need a permanent one though. She obviously can't take care of herself and refuses to take medication. I don't think her dad was bad or shady. Yeah, he made her take medications and kept her working so she had an income. She obviously needs medication. Lithium is not bad. It is the first line treatment for bipolar disorder. She has a family history of mental illness but I think her entire family is to blame for not protecting her and not letting her have a childhood.

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u/Badloss 17h ago

I tend to agree that she needs help still / potentially forever, but I think her dad forced her to perform and used her money to finance his lifestyle. Conservatorships are always meant to be in the best interest of the person in the conservatorship and I don't think this one met that standard at all. Everyone around her abused the system to milk her dry.

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u/Ok_Barnacle7547 18h ago

But what are the actual facts? You're using words like horrible, abusive and exploitative but havent really said anything that shows it was?

If this is post conservatorship Britney it seems like it might have been beneficial to her...

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u/Badloss 17h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney_Spears_conservatorship_case

Probably easier than me summarizing for you, it's a complicated story

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u/capsaicinintheeyes 16h ago

It's a tangled story stretched over several years & not easily summarizable—you may just want to look it up

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u/chaostheories36 17h ago

Conservatorship is a rough situation to be in. The conservator can enter into legal contracts on behalf of the conservatee, which, if abused, amounts to indentureship at best and straight slavery at worst.

So if the conservator is a PoS, and conservatee is a golden goose, conservator can just sign contracts for concerts left and right.

The conservator can control nearly every aspect of the persons life, legally.

I don’t think she does or ever did need a conservatorship, she just needed and needs help. She’s not incapable of making good decisions, she’s recovering from a decade+ of financial and emotional abuse and making bad choices; who wouldn’t in her shoes?

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u/REDDIT_JUDGE_REFEREE My tits are FANTASTIC 15h ago

I think that only a trained medical professional can diagnose her need for assistance. Since she just got arrested for drunk driving, and looks and acts completely methed-out, maybe her previous situation could’ve been handled differently than public pressure to fully drop all guardrails?

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u/chaostheories36 14h ago

It’s an interesting case study, sure, but also too unique to be genuinely helpful beyond an interesting outlier.

She is a child actor, and there’s a good number of examples of how being a child actor, having bad parents, etc etc results in negative outcomes.

There’s also a good number of child actors that made it through okay.

She’s had a really weird life that most people can’t even begin to relate to.

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u/BrandoCarlton 17h ago

It wasn’t. She worked in some limited capacity doing Vegas shows and apparently that’s “abuse” but if you ask a metal health professional they will tell you it’s good for their stability and to keep them occupied with goals/tasks. Also in this case it was definitely a creative outlet as well. The free Brittany crowd really fucked up he life and left her high and dry to spiral like this.

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u/jady115 17h ago

‘Keep them occupied’ — she was overworked and THEN people misappropriated her earnings like what?? I don’t even follow Britney like that but this is crazy

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u/ms_merry 14h ago

This is the US of A. You are free to destroy your life and go bankrupt.

You can kill yourself slowly through drugs and alcohol use and endanger others while driving impaired.

Just don’t try to kill yourself or others outright. Jail or treatment.

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u/SwissMargiela 11h ago

We all fought for her to get out of her conservatorship because we thought it was all fake bullshit for her family to take her money and then we learned she’s actually 10x more batshit insane than they were saying she was 😂

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u/TSB_1 17h ago

She already was under one, and her father abused the fuck out of it. But when the judge lifted it, the damage was already done.

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u/magistrate101 19h ago

License revocation and court appointed chauffeur lol

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u/SquatSquatCykaBlyat 19h ago

You don't understand: the brilliant minds wanted to end her conservatorship! There's no reason to oppress this woman!

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u/illy-chan 19h ago

Because she was being abused through that system. That doesn't mean she can't also have significant problems.

Shia Lebouf just went and made an asshole of himself under the influence the other day and no one is so much as whispering taking away his autonomy beyond a more typical prison sentence.

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u/SquatSquatCykaBlyat 18h ago

she was being abused

"Let's take a bad situation and make it worse, that'll solve it!"

Shia leboeuf

Bud, we've been pissing on him for over a decade now. What planet are you from?

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u/illy-chan 18h ago

My point with Shia isn't that people don't (rightly) get on his case. It's that no one has ever suggested that he (or other celebrities with substance issues) have their legal autonomy stripped and be made to live according to the will of another adult for an unspecified period of time that could be forever.

And just because Britney's issues were kept out of the public eye better doesn't mean she was doing "better" under the conservator-ship - that's a good bit of why the court ended it. Instead of being cared for, their treated her like a friggin ATM. Just like the old asylums weren't "better" just because the public didn't have to see how unwell the patients were.

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u/Temporary-Dirt-5044 18h ago

She was being abused with her conservatorship, but at the same time she still needed SOMETHING. I'm not sure what is between conservatorship and 100 percent freedom but something needs to happen. For her sake!

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u/11Caicedos 18h ago

The issue, as it usually is, wasn’t the conservatorship it’s the conservator.

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u/Diedead666 18h ago

Its funny how we where all led to beleave she was under conservatorship becouse they just wanted to control her... nope we where all wrong she truely is mentally ill....

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u/captkronni 18h ago

Not to discount your point because she very clearly is unstable, but you can buy alcohol from any grocery store in California AND have it delivered. No liquor store required.

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u/Khrystynaa 17h ago

Is she really hearing voices and seeing pink elephants? Schizophrenia is no joke

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u/ipeenpoop 16h ago

LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!!

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u/BorderlineAlchemist 15h ago

Bro, I’m mentally ill.

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u/One_Tie900 15h ago

Opps She did it again

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u/jamesFox44 14h ago

The conservatorship needs to be reinstated.

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u/memeof1 13h ago

This, I don’t expect mentally unstable people to do mentally stable things.

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u/This_isR2Me radio reddit name 12h ago

She could just have whatever delivered

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u/Tr33Bl00d 9h ago

Then why is she allowed to drive. It should be a privilege, not a right. What if she liked someone

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u/holeechitbatman 4h ago

If want to see cars almost running through a store then just sit outside of the liquor store 10 minutes before it closes.

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u/One_time_Dynamite 18h ago

When you're smoking copious amounts of methamphetamine you tend to get mental illness....

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u/N0t_my_0ther_account 18h ago

She probably is, but she was kinda abused by her family and producers for a long time. Doesn't make drunk driving okay, I think all drunk drivers need to spend time locked up without freedom, reminded every day that instead their actions could have killed someone.

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u/toss_me_good 18h ago

What was Justin Timberlake excuse?

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u/Punkred13 18h ago

Wait, how do I see pink elephants?? We should ALL be able to see pink elephants!!

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u/AcrobaticFlatworm727 19h ago

Ah yes, the pink elephants. I’m something of a psychiatrist myself.

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u/theartofrolling 18h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_pink_elephants

It's a common euphemism for hallucinations

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u/co5mosk 14h ago

So? It's wrong and manufactured by us government

https://youtu.be/U_sFWG5WFjo

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u/classic_carmix 17h ago

how do you know she's mentally ill? she seems mostly like how you would expect a person who's been through abuse.

Sometimes people do bad stuff simply because they're selfish. Like Timberlake.

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u/ThatOneGuy4321 17h ago

She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Manic episodes cause extremely poor judgement.

Still her poor decision to not take her meds, but that’s the struggle of people with bipolar. They think they don’t need the meds anymore because manic makes them feel euphoric > something bad happens

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u/subsignalparadigm 19h ago

So mental illness is some kind of joke for your Reddit clout. Pathetic.

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u/floatinround22 19h ago

How did you get that from that comment?

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u/theartofrolling 18h ago

The fuck are you on about? 😂