According to the media reports, the troubled pop diva
Britney Spears was released from the Cedars
Sinai Medical
Center.
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.