Britney Takes Trip To Palm Desert
Britney Spears managed to escape the paparazzi staked out in front of her Beverly Hills home to take a trip to Palm Desert, Calif. with her photog friend Adnan Ghalib on Sunday.
Brit — who was released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center early Saturday after a custody dispute standoff on Thursday night — was in good spirits, according to reports.
However, Britney was not happy about her hospital visit from TV talker Dr. Phil McGraw, TMZ reports. Britney was blindsided by Dr. Phil and wanted nothing to do with him, sources tell TMZ.
Dr. Phil, who said he was convinced Britney needed help, told CBS' The Early Show, "I want to set the record straight. I went to see Britney at the request of her family. I talked to [her mother] Lynne, [her father] Jamie, and [her brother] Brian, because they were frustrated that she wasn't going to be held for a longer time."
Dr. Phil explained, "Thursday night, the phone rang, it was Lynne, clearly she was very upset. Any parent would be. I was first contacted by her family a year ago, and had maintained a running dialogue for the last year or so."
Meanwhile, London's News of the World is reporting that Britney downed a cocktail of 100 prescription pills plus a "Purple Monster" mix of vodka, NyQuil and Red Bull before her meltdown on Thursday.
