Britney Spears rushed to hospital

Britney Spears rushed to hospital amid new suicide fears

According to thisislondon.co.uk

Britney Spears has been taken to a Los Angeles hospital by ambulance to be put under psychiatric care for the second time this month.

She was taken to UCLA Medical Centre around 1.30am after a carefully staged intervention, with the police calling ahead to waiting medics with the message: "The package is on its way."

Britney was sectioned under code "5150" - the emergency services' way of indicating she is considered a danger to herself and others.

When Britney heard she was being taken into care, she said: "Is something wrong?" and insiders say she was too "out of it" to resist.

But she then reportedly made herself a hot chocolate while she waited for the paramedics to arrive. She was strapped to a hospital trolley before being carried into the ambulance.

It had been feared early this morning that Britney had attempted suicide, but sources have since denied she attempted suicide.

It appears the operation had been in planning for a number of days and vehicles were blocked from following the same route as the emergency services convoy, which included 30 police cars and several police motorbikes.

Britney's mother, Lynne, who reunited with her daughter earlier this week after months of estrangement, best friend Alli Sims and “manager” Sam Lutfi were all at the property when police and ambulance arrived.

The hospitalisation came after Britney's psychiatrist visited the star and recommended she be temporarily committed on the basis she poses a danger to herself and to others, according to reports.

Britney, who is being treated for bipolar disorder, had not slept in days was seen driving blindly around in a new Mercedes saloon two days before the intervention.

At one point, she became lost and asked a photographer for directions using an English accent.

A US report claimed she had been on a three-day binge using the deadly addictive drug crystal meth in the time leading up to the stand-off over her children. "Britney was high on meth and naked all day before," a source said.

"Even when losing her boys became an issue, she didn't stop. After the boys were taken from her, Britney went on another drug binge, using crystal meth almost every day for an entire week."

Her psychiatrist is said to have ruled she should be treated under a 5150 hold, the same order that led to her being forcibly taken from her house on a stretcher earlier this month after a three-hour stand-off with police during which she locked herself in the bathroom with one of her sons.

Her visitation rights were stripped following the incident.

Under California law, a 5150 order allows a patient to be hospitalised against their will for up to 72 hours. Her psychiatrist can, however, apply to a court for her to be held for an additional 14 days.

Lynne, who followed the convoy to hospital in her car along with Britney's father Jamie and boyfriend Adnan Ghalib, flew into Los Angeles from her home in Louisiana on Monday, where she reunited with her daughter after an ongoing rift.

The pair have been estranged since last summer, when they reportedly fell out over Britney's children.

Sources say Britney went to hospital willingly, but earlier this month, she allegedly threatened to commit suicide if she is forced into psychiatric care.

She reportedly told a friend: "They're not sending me to the nut house! No one can make me go - and I'm not going.

"I'll kill myself before I let them lock me up again. So tell Mama and Daddy I said so. Oh my God, it's over for me."

Britney has been in a highly public downward spiral since filing for divorce from Federline in November 2006.

Her bizarre antics include shaving her head bald, attacking a car with an umbrella and bringing along a paparazzo pal on trips to a courthouse in her child custody case.

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Reference: thisislondon.co.uk