Feb 7 2008Britney Spears' release: Why, God? WHY?!
Britney Spears' release from UCLA Medical Center has many people scratching their heads. It turns out that a court-appointed lawyer stepped in and decided that Britney was no longer a danger to herself and others. People reports:
The procedure calls for a hearing at the hospital to find out whether the hold is justified. The rep for the court, called a "hearing referee" – who is usually a lawyer – interviews the patient and doctor to determine if there's "just cause" for detainment.
"This is when law and medicine collide," says attorney Terry K. Wasserman, who's not involved in the Spears matter, "when a lawyer can override a doctor's opinion."
Britney Spears' parents are obviously none-too-thrilled and issued the following statement last night to the media:
"As parents of an adult child in the throes of a mental health crisis, we were extremely disappointed this morning to learn that over the recommendation of her treating psychiatrist, our daughter Britney was released from the hospital that could best care for her and keep her safe.
"We are deeply concerned about our daughter's safety and vulnerability and we believe her life is presently at risk. There are conservatorship orders in place created to protect our daughter that are being blatantly disregarded. We ask only that the court's orders be enforced so that a tragedy may be averted."
My sources tell me that, after releasing the statement, a concerned Lynne and Jamie Spears met with Pentagon officials, The Super Friends and that kid from Home Alone who, sadly, forgot his paint buckets. So much for devising a fully functional crisis response. Kevin, you're such a disease.*
*My apologies to anyone whose never watched Home Alone and has no idea what I'm talking about. You also have my sympathy for living what must be a shallow, empty existence. Even if you're a doctor that saves orphans.
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Reader Comments
1. Liz - February 7, 2008 10:59 AM
probably not first.
2. Liz - February 7, 2008 11:02 AM
Holy crap! I was first. LOL at the Superfriends reference.
3. D. Richards - February 7, 2008 11:02 AM
I'll tell you why: The cafeteria couldn't continue to keep feeding the beast.
Frist knows what I'm talking about.
4. samuel - February 7, 2008 11:04 AM
NO! I'm first... Or was that number one?
She'll be back, they always go back....
5. mi - February 7, 2008 11:05 AM
PRAYING for BRITNEY!
All you haters need to get a BRAIN enema!
6. Shelly - February 7, 2008 11:06 AM
PRAYING for BRITNEY!
All you haters ned to get a brain enema!
7. momo - February 7, 2008 11:07 AM
hell is dying and being reborn as her nasty ass boots, or the drivers seat of her mercedes
8. oh - February 7, 2008 11:09 AM
Hope she is ok. She is gorgeous. seems saw her before on a celebrity and millioniare dating site like millionairefriends.com where Charlie Sheen found his new love there. Is she finding her love there.
9. I Love this Site - February 7, 2008 11:10 AM
Super Fish you are the Best.
10. McLoven - February 7, 2008 11:11 AM
@5 &6 Mi and or Shelly, You need to get a BRAIN..
11. Whitman - February 7, 2008 11:11 AM
Tho I'm no fashion maven, I'm pretty sure she should be committed just on the basis of that dress, clearly a discount gas station purchase, and the hat-boots-lipstick ensemble.
I love Britney tho. She can rehab at my house, with my promise not to steal any of her personal effects.
Compassion for the crazy. A pox on Paris tho.
12. Oprah's Gorilla Butthole - February 7, 2008 11:12 AM
The BOOTS!! Oh, THE HUMANITY!
Maybe those boots are standard issue for all mental health patients.
I'm sure the smell in those puppies could cure schizophrenia.
And #8, you're such a disease.
13. D. Richards (Sadist.) - February 7, 2008 11:12 AM
#6? That was cute. One thing, you misspelled 'need'.
'Brain enema'. Not only would my brain purge it's shit, but also Satan's prick.
14. Whitman - February 7, 2008 11:14 AM
Tho I'm no fashion maven, I'm pretty sure she should be committed just on the basis of that dress, clearly a discount gas station purchase, and the hat-boots-lipstick ensemble.
I love Britney tho. She can rehab at my house, with my promise not to steal any of her personal effects.
Compassion for the crazy. A pox on Paris tho.
15. FRIST!!! - February 7, 2008 11:18 AM
Guess who's back?
Back again.
Britney's back
Tell a friend..
16. shithole world - February 7, 2008 11:19 AM
This fucking bullshit blows. How does that lawyer live sleep at night? Hmm well I guess the way all scummy lawyers sleep at night in a solid gold bed with a machine that simmulates the sound of the ocean. What a fucking a-hole. How is he going to feel isf she hurts herself or someone else? I guess pretty fucking relaxed since he'll get the news during his daily massage from 5 playboy bunnies on a solid gold massage table. Fuck this world. I'm done with all of this shit. No more, anything regarding Britney I am now completely ignoring. There are millions of people in her situation and I don't hear about them everyday. It's not funny anymore it's just infuriating and it make me hate society, more than I already do. Everytime I hear about this heinous ongoing saga it makes me cranky and pissy well fuck why should I have to feel that way, I didn'yt whore out my oldest child for fame and riches, I'm not hillbilly white trash. ENOUGH of this shit, this is the last story I read about Brit. The 24/7 surveilance of this woman is insanity if they used all this crap to fin Bin Landin they'd find him tommorrow.
17. John Q. Public - February 7, 2008 11:23 AM
Greetings from America! Here, if a citizen has not committed a crime, you can't take away her freedom except under rare extreme circumstances.
How often is a psychiatrist's opinion at least partially incorrect? Most studies indicate that psychiatrists' clinical judgments (about diagnosis, choice of treatments likely to be effective, short-term and long-term prognosis) rarely exceed 75% accuracy, and fall around 50% for most practicing clinicians. Their opinion alone is not sufficient to lock somebody up. The system worked the way it was supposed to.
18. rusty trawler - February 7, 2008 11:24 AM
dude, it's none too thrilled, not "non-too-thrilled"
19. Anal Fistula - February 7, 2008 11:26 AM
wtf, fish....would you even have a website without Britney? there are other human disasters out there to cover...and why the lack of bikinis and nipple slips?
20. McLoven - February 7, 2008 11:28 AM
Hey FRIST, Did you hear Britney was released from the looney bin yesterday??
21. Snarf - February 7, 2008 11:30 AM
That's not Britney Spears!
That's Boy George you cheeky flop!
22. nipolian - February 7, 2008 11:32 AM
#16 - You have issues.......Seek help......They have meds that will make you better.
23. The Laughing God - February 7, 2008 11:35 AM
America! FUCK YEAH!!!
24. Yuni - February 7, 2008 11:35 AM
I would like for Britney to make her poopies in my mouth.
25. Ed B. - February 7, 2008 11:35 AM
Good. Maybe now she'll kill herself and end this whole thing.
26. lisa - February 7, 2008 11:39 AM
She is gorgeous.seems saw her before on a millionaire&celeb dating site Celeb Mingle . com
,but don't know ih it is her.
27. deaconjones - February 7, 2008 11:39 AM
my penis gave her wrist ringworm. I'm going to burn this thing off. It's no fun anymore. Stupid limp ringworm giving penis. I hate myself.
28. Mick - February 7, 2008 11:39 AM
#24 - just drop by her house, I'm guessing she'll oblige. Just make sure you wait for the laxatives to kick in.
29. Chauncey Gardner - February 7, 2008 11:42 AM
She is a walking, procreating horror.
30. Britney - February 7, 2008 11:44 AM
I'M OUT MOTHERFUCKERS!!! WHOOOOO!!!
Adderall and laxatives all around, I'm buyin'!
31. matt - February 7, 2008 11:46 AM
Could whoever writes the content here start COLLATING the 9 million weekly Britney posts into just one, or maybe none at all?
Nobody is interested in the microscopic developments of her rehabilitation. We only need a Britney post after:
i) She exposes a nipple / breast / labium.
ii) She dies.
That's it, really.
32. poo - February 7, 2008 11:48 AM
#16. Um in this case the psychiatrist's is right on the money. The woman is fucking batshit crazy and a threat to herself and others. Her parents believe this, it has been HEAVILY documented and everyone with a brain and access to the internet, a television, radio or grocery store knows it.
Psychiatrist's are usually idiots who require far more help then the people they are attempting to help. There is no definitive word on how to treat mental ilness or why it even happens and most of the time psychiatry is as useful as scientology, it is a VERY loose science almost as lose as Paris Hilton but, as we all know nothing on earth is as loose as that whore.
However with all that being TRUE I still believe that this chick is better off in the care of "professionals" than out wandering free buying lattes, befriending and screwing people who clearly do not have her best interest at heart (if they had a human heart that is). This woman should not be on the road or with her children until she gets help and STICKS to some sort of treatment program.
Unfortunately with her out again she'll likely get her kids back soon and then well it won't be pretty. I hope those kids and other children and people stay safe because they shouldn't have to pay for this woman's mistakes and personal problems and the sickening failure that is the legal system. The same legal system that won't prosecute some fuckface caught on tape snorting crack because well there is no proof that it is crack when everyone and their crack sniffing dog knows it ain't fucking icing sugar.
So don't give us any of this freedom bullshit, this is NOT about someone 's rights being taken away this is about giving someone the help they desperately need because they are too fucking looney to know they need it. This is in her BEST interest, it's in everybody's best interest. Because society as a whole and most of all her kids have the RIGHT to NOT have to deal with and suffer the consequences of this fucking bullshit. If something is not done to deal with this shit once and for all she will hurt someone else or herself in the end. I sicerely hope I'm wrong about that but, I'm not.
33. Bemused - February 7, 2008 11:50 AM
I wonder what branch of the Church of Scientology 'John Q. Public' (#17) belongs to? Anyway, with luck, Adnan Ghalib will discard his wife, Muslim-style, Britney will find happiness in the arms of her favorite Pakistani paparazzo, Sharia law will prevail, and she'll be stoned to death in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
34. Travis Bickle - February 7, 2008 11:50 AM
If there's nothing missing in my life, then why do these tears come at night?
35. poo - February 7, 2008 11:50 AM
*pardon my spelling but I don't spell check or edit for shit like this.
36. Commissioner Gordon - February 7, 2008 11:51 AM
I know I've been tough on the girl recently, but I think it's time to put the signal up in the sky for her superhero to come and rescue her...
na-na na-na na-na na-na ADNAN!
na-na na-na na-na na-na ADNAN!
37. mrs.t - February 7, 2008 11:52 AM
I think my insane 89 yr-old aunt wore that exact ensemble to my graduation party. She's dead now. Probably not because of the outfit.
38. Andrew - February 7, 2008 11:53 AM
look what you did, you little jerk!
39. Chauncey Gardner - February 7, 2008 11:53 AM
Oh, and I love the HOME ALONE reference.
Whenever I see that movie, it's tough to ignore Kevin's potential as a black ops operative for any number of government intelligence and security agencies. Can you imagine what kind of damage he could do with a silenced M4, a ballistic knife, and fourty pounds of Semtex A?
40. John Q. Public - February 7, 2008 11:56 AM
Yeah, no. I'm not quoting Scientology. Here's something from a recent article in one of the top journals in medicine.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2007:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/18/1834
"Notwithstanding the importance of the assessment of patients' competence by physicians and the incidence of impaired capacity among patients, data suggest that the performance of capacity assessments is often suboptimal. Physicians are frequently unaware of a patient's incapacity for decision making. When incapacity is suspected, physicians may not know which standard to apply, and, as a result, their evaluations may omit mention of the relevant criteria or may not apply them specifically to decisions about treatment. The assignment of diagnostic categories may be confused with the determination of capacity. For example, a diagnosis of dementia or a psychotic disorder may be presumed incorrectly to indicate incompetence. Hence, the reliability of unstructured judgments of competence by physicians has been poor. In one study, five physicians reviewing videotapes of capacity assessments and rating the competence of patients achieved a rate of agreement that was no better than chance."
41. Auntie Kryst - February 7, 2008 11:58 AM
Who ghost wrote the Spears parent's release? Louisiana swamp rats don't know nuthin bout reedin' and ritein.
42. Clothes Horse - February 7, 2008 11:59 AM
He He He! She dresses funny!
43. nipolian - February 7, 2008 11:59 AM
If you don't like this site's content.........stay the fuck off it! Google celebrity gossip....you will find that there are many other sites on the internet that are very similar to this one. Quit fucking bitching. Go Fish!!!!
44. my comment - February 7, 2008 12:00 PM
The boots. Now with wet disgusting sweat stains.
45. Salesman Terry - February 7, 2008 12:00 PM
Beautiful Miss Britney, you don't need hospitals, you don't need drugs, all you need is the support, protection, and unconditional love of a good man. If I were your man, I'd keep the jackals away from you. I'd hold you gently in my arms and kiss away your tears and your pain. I'd caress you and assure you that you're the most important woman in the world to me and the most beautiful. Don't let the losers and haters get you down. You are perfection. Don't you forget it!
46. panty magnet - February 7, 2008 12:08 PM
#40. So then what do you suggest should be done?
47. oishii - February 7, 2008 12:16 PM
you're what the french call "les incompetents"
48. Vince Lombardi - February 7, 2008 12:20 PM
Two points:
1) I'm quite relieved that a lawyer (not a medically certified psychiatrist who spent years and years studying and treating clinically mentally ill patients) proclaimed Miss Spears is not nuts. Now I can start bagging on her again.
2) Someone should check the Bing Crosby display at the Wax Museum. I think the mannequin is missing its hat.
49. #1 hater - February 7, 2008 12:24 PM
John Q Pubic.........did you just arrive in this country...??? have you missed two years of of extreme batshite behaviour out of this mess...??? just use your superhuman powers of observation and tell me you see a sane person when you look at brit.....seriously......check it out...she's nuts.....she'll yell at you with a british accent, for Christ's sake.........where you been, man....????
50. LL - February 7, 2008 12:25 PM
That hat and those boots (if that's a fairly recent picture) should be proof enough that she's not ready to be released.
51. grrr - February 7, 2008 12:33 PM
those boots are made for walking
52. burgernoodle - February 7, 2008 12:34 PM
wull, she's definitely a danger to me...
53. FRIST!!! - February 7, 2008 12:35 PM
Yes, McLoven, we discussed it briefly yesterday..
It makes me happy
54. John Q. Public - February 7, 2008 12:45 PM
#49 - I didn't say she doesn't need treatment. I said they lacked sufficient reliable evidence to take her freedom away and try to force treatment on her. You've seen lots of cases where that worked, have you? Do you have any idea how ineffective forced psychiatric treatments are? There are good reasons why the standard is very high for the government to force psychiatric treatment on a non-criminal adult.
Some people just can't handle this outcome, but it happens all the time. A 72-hour involuntary hospitalization is designed to engage a patient with clinical treatment in the hope that he or she will voluntarily continue it after the 3 days are up. Most of the time that's exactly how it works. In some cases the patient clears up a bit and declines further treatment, even though all the doctors think that's a bad idea. Most doctors also think it's a bad idea to pursue a court order for extended involuntary treatment under those circumstances, because it often makes things much worse in the long run (the patient never trusts anybody again when they start talking about treatment, which they rightfully associate with imprisonment).
She'll get better when she decides to do it on her own, and not a minute sooner.
55. Rooting For Spears Family - February 7, 2008 12:48 PM
The Psychiatrist said "She's fucked-up ! ... keep her"
Mommy and Daddy said "Won't somebody please for the love of god think of the children.....keep her"
The Lawyer-Jackal-Bottom-Feeder said "you have no LEGAL right to keep her"
Britney said "Duh-Blurble-Shoon-Mama-Me-Wanna-Pee-M8"
Sammy Luftwhatever said "I told you I'd be back ... hehehehehe" ... *snif*
Adnan The Great said *click-click* "Give a smile here sweetie "
And the saga that is Britney Spears and her free media coverage continues.
I gotta tell ya .... I LIKE reading about all the bat-shit crazy stuff she and her
kin-folk say and do. It makes for a funny conversation, that's for sure. YOU GO GIRL ...I mean .... Y'ALL
It's like reading the comic paper clips.... Don't ever get normal Britney ... You and your kin stay just the way you are ! You're All so loveable this way ... Hell I'd watch a sitcom like this anytime ... HAHAHAHAHA ........
56. wesley - February 7, 2008 12:51 PM
BRITNEY'S INSANE!! YEEHAW!! Watch out, folks! The crazy bitch is on the loose! Better get the rangers to hog tie the bitch before she mows down a bunch of passersby.
57. clareargent - February 7, 2008 12:54 PM
@#50 yeah, that outfit is nuts. How can anybody think she's even partially functional? Put her back before someone gets hurt! And if K-Fed is smart he'll HIDE her kids from her.
58. Auto-Erotic-Asphixiation - February 7, 2008 1:01 PM
@57 Nobody ever accused K-fed of being smart though
59. Juaquin Ingles - February 7, 2008 1:07 PM
Orange and brown NEVER go with purple... UNLESS it's from bruises left from smacking a bitch around, and then it's perfectly acceptable.
60. Juaquin Ingles - February 7, 2008 1:11 PM
Orange and brown NEVER go with purple... UNLESS it's from bruises left from smacking a bitch around, and then it's perfectly acceptable.
61. freejose - February 7, 2008 1:18 PM
One look at that outfit tells the world she is not OK.
62. Cocopuffs - February 7, 2008 1:26 PM
Is it just me or is she starting to look like that Chyna chick?
Only uglier..
63. #1hater - February 7, 2008 1:28 PM
i wonder who's liabel for brit when she drives her mercedes through a van full of blind orphans, killing them and their catholic nun caretakers.....she oughta be restrained until stops talking like kelly osborne...
64. Hot mama - February 7, 2008 1:28 PM
I love how people who come to the conclusion that medical professionals (the family too) in fact MAY be wrong on their assessment of competence come to the conclusion that a LAWYER (with absolutely no expertise in the matter, who has clear motive and does not even have the pretense of objectivity or impartiality) obviously knows that it's best that she be released.
65. #1hater - February 7, 2008 1:29 PM
i wonder who's liabel for brit when she drives her mercedes through a van full of blind orphans, killing them and their catholic nun caretakers.....she oughta be restrained until stops talking like kelly osborne...
66. HughJorgan - February 7, 2008 1:29 PM
There must be alot of "if she's sane what the fuck am I doing here?" going on back at the UCLA med center right now.
67. Richard McBeef - February 7, 2008 1:37 PM
#16 - You are right on. The world sucks. You should kill yourself, no one likes you anyway.
68. turdo - February 7, 2008 1:39 PM
bet you a million bucks her crack super stinks.
69. jason - February 7, 2008 1:39 PM
try the site SugarMommaMatch.c..... more exciting than this. i am sure you will love it.
your dream can come true here.
70. lace - February 7, 2008 1:41 PM
Why do they let her dress herself?
71. mizscarlett - February 7, 2008 1:44 PM
TOXIC.
72. tanya - February 7, 2008 1:47 PM
She should be committed for wearing that hat alone!
73. Marci - February 7, 2008 2:02 PM
"I love how people who come to the conclusion that medical professionals (the family too) in fact MAY be wrong on their assessment of competence come to the conclusion that a LAWYER (with absolutely no expertise in the matter, who has clear motive and does not even have the pretense of objectivity or impartiality) obviously knows that it's best that she be released."
It's a lawyer because the situation involves basic rights under the Constitution. Some of you people are complete retards. Do you know anything about the country you grew up in?
74. natinc - February 7, 2008 2:42 PM
I really enjoyed not seeing her all over the news these few days. Please send her back .
75. Kat - February 7, 2008 3:34 PM
Oh, God. How dare that lawyer step in and uphold Brittney Spears' civil rights and liberties! That bastard. It's disgusting. How could he sleep at night and blatantly disregard the conservatorship order that affords her father power over her finances. Oh wait...
I know a lot of insane people that should be in a therapy or a medicated-induced coma. It doesn't mean I have the right to force them into it. Obviously the doctors didn't have absolute documentation that Spears was planning to kill herself or others. They were being cautious. And I can understand that, but there's this little thing called the constitution. Some lawyers take it pretty seriously, I hear.
76. ha8ter - February 7, 2008 3:45 PM
You people are boring me today. Come up with something more intelligent.
77. Movie Stealer - February 7, 2008 4:15 PM
I watched Home Alone and noticed how similar the story was to a French movie called 3615 code PereNoel released a few months beforehand. The French movie is not a comedy, it is a scary movie, about a child having to stay on his own at Christmas because his mother is an executive in a big department store. He starts chatting with Santa Claus on the Minitel (IE did not exist yet) and the bad guy creeps in his house and the boy find ways to defend himself. Yet another movie stolen from a foreign country, conveniently repackaged as an American original thing (where the parents fly to... France).
78. Lindsay - February 7, 2008 4:16 PM
"i wouldnt let you sleep in my room if you were GROWING ON MY ASS" - buzz
79. Me - February 7, 2008 7:13 PM
would that not be considered practicing medicine without a license if an attorney can decide the health status of a person???? hmmm, interesting. perhaps I don't have to go to medical school after all to become a doctor. I can just go to law school and take matters into my own hands.
80. Pilatunes - February 7, 2008 8:15 PM
My car insurance just went up.
81. jack - February 7, 2008 9:14 PM
I don't know about you, but when I see someone dressed that way, my first thought is "Oh yeah, that's a sane person."
82. Giggles - February 7, 2008 10:38 PM
Society and her parents beg her to get treatment, and a goddamn lawyer undoes it all. Fucktard.
83. Stacy - February 7, 2008 11:36 PM
Umm, is it just me, or is there a red mark on her arm?
Looks to me like a cigar burn haha
84. Blondamnation - February 8, 2008 3:57 AM
they need to not let her out until she can dress herself, she's a danger to society in that outfit. (The BOOTS-PLEASE SOMEBODY MAKE IT STOP!! Those "crazy boots" are what her doctors need to look at. I think they have her under hypnosis and they're leading her all over LA, hitting up gas stations and Carls Jr drive-thru's..)
85. Blondamnation - February 8, 2008 4:32 AM
"hmmm, what to wear to my release party?(it's not a record release party? Ohhh, THAT kind of release-goody! AdninTime!!) "
"Purple dress, brown plaid hat, and my lucky boots..brown, no, white white purse. Come on voices- we look hot!"
86. la lohan - February 8, 2008 9:25 AM
wow Brit Brit looks like SHIT SHIT.
87. Iago - February 10, 2008 7:22 AM
The lawyer didn't say she couldn't have treatment. He said it was HER DECISION. Some of you people are complete idiots. You can't help someone that doesn't WANT to be helped. Physical illness differs from mental illness in that regard. . The lawyer didn't say she SHOULDN'T get treatment, he ruled that treatment shouldn't be FORCED. That's right: she shouldn't be imprisonment when she hasn't committed a crime. You should be glad you live in a country where doctors can't lock you up arbitrarily. Dipshits.
88. sierra - March 1, 2008 5:55 PM
why are you guyz so mean??like brittany spears is going threw a rough time.. just leave her alone i acually am a big fan of brittany.and u do.n't know anything about her u DON'T KNOW HER PERSONAL LIFE... iam praying for brittany to get better and start her carerr again and get her boys back... as soon as they got token away she was broken hearted.... like u guya are so mean.......JUST GO GET A LIFE ....I BET BRITTANY IS BETTER THAN ALL FO U'S SO JUST U DON'T KNOW WHAT SHES GOIN THRW JUST GIVE THAT GIRL A BRAKE