The reports where confirmed by Dr. Phil McGraw, who met with Spears at Cedars Sinai hospital. Apparently, he will devote his Monday show to the Spears’ problems.

"My meeting with Britney and some family members this morning in her room at Cedars leaves me convinced more than ever that she is in dire need of both medical and psychological intervention” McGraw said in a statement for Entertainment Tonight.

"She was released moments before my arrival and was packing when I entered the room. We visited for about an hour before I walked with her to her car," he added.

On Friday morning, Britney Spears was taken by ambulance to the Cedars Sinai Medical Center following a three-hour standoff with police at her luxury Hollywood home. According to reports, she locked herself and her year-old son Jayden in a bedroom rather than turn them over to her ex-husband's bodyguard as she was supposed to.

The pop diva was reportedly hospitalized under a "5150 Hold," order under which a person is considered a danger to themselves or others as a result of mental disorder.

The TMZ.com site reported that during her stay at the hospital, Spears was uncooperative, screaming at the hospital staff and demanding to leave.

Because of the incident, Britney Spears has lost on Friday the visitation rights. The Los Angeles judge, who handles, the custody dispute between Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline suspended the pop star's visitation rights at an emergency court hearing.

Though, according to MTV News Los Angeles police have no plans to charge Spears with any crime relating to the incident. "We were only there because of the child-custody dispute, and that's going to play out in the courts," police spokesperson Ana Aguirre told MTV News.

On Thursday, the law firm representing Spears in the custody battle had quit, saying the pop star was "impossible" to work with. The legal resignation came after Spears missed another court-ordered deposition with Federline's lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, to undergo cross-examination about her parenting abilities. Last month she called in sick to a similar meeting just hours after she was caught on camera at a night club.

The  Friday’s incident is coming after a turbulent year for Britney Spears. During 2007, she repeatedly failed to show up for court appearances, attacked her ex-husband's car and a posse of paparazzi with an umbrella, and was unable to comply with court-ordered drug testing. Efforts to revive her career backfired when she appeared overweight and disoriented at a much-hyped appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards.