Britney Hospitalized Again -- Getting Psychiatric Evaluation
Britney Spears is back in a psychiatric ward less than a month after she was hospitalized for holding son Jayden hostage.
After a meticulously orchestrated operation, the singer was taken with a huge motorcade to UCLA Medical Center in Westwood, Calif. early on Thursday. She will have to stay there for at least 72 hours.
"You would have thought the President was coming to town with the amount of security," one witness to the early-January 31 morning scene at her house off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles tells Star.
"Four motorcycle cops led a police squad car on to the premises. They were followed by an ambulance, a white van and at least six more motorcycle cops."
Two police helicopters flew overhead.
"I knew something was odd when I saw flares on the main street leading to Britney's house earlier in the night around 10 pm," says the witness. "When the ambulance finally took Britney away, the street was closed off, along with other streets. There must have been at least 30 patrol cars scattered around the vicinity between Britney's house and the hospital."
"The windows in the ambulance were all blacked out, so no one could see Britney," a second witness tells Star.
Officers radioed a message back to headquarters saying, "The package is on the way out," according to the Los Angeles Times, which claimed the motorcade stretched "longer than a football field."
Britney's mom, Lynne, and her paparazzi boyfriend, Adnan Ghalib, arrived at the hospital in the same car immediately following the singer's arrival around 2:00 am.
Her "manager," Sam Lutfi was initially denied access inside the hospital, but was finally let in.
Things have been rapidly spiraling out of control for Britney. After being released from a two-day stint in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Jan. 5, she was banned from seeing her 16-month-old son Jayden and her older son Sean Preston, 2.
For the past few days her condition again seemed to worsen, and police sources say they took her to the hospital after getting a call from her psychiatrist. "I don't think she has slept for at least three days," says one person who knows her. It's simply not safe for her to be driving around Los Angeles. Someone was going to get seriously hurt real soon."
Lynne Spears left the the hospital at 5:00 am Thursday with her son, Bryan. When asked how Britney was doing, Lynne simply relied, "Fine."
Britney's father, Jamie was also at the hospital and left right after his ex-wife. Lutfi and Ghalib had both left earlier, although Britney's close friend Alli Sims reportedly stayed with the singer.
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