Britney Spears Checks Into Rehab Following Early March DUI Arrest

Britney Spear (American singer)

 US media reported on Sunday that pop superstar Britney Spears has checked herself into rehab following her arrest last month on suspicion of driving while intoxicated near Los Angeles. 

The 44-year-old singer was arrested in early March and booked into custody by the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department on suspicion of DUI. She was released soon after, and a representative for Spears at the time described the incident as “completely inexcusable,” stating that Spears would “take the right steps and comply with the law.”

Multiple US news outlets confirmed on Sunday that Spears had voluntarily checked herself into a treatment facility. While it was not immediately clear when she entered the facility, she is scheduled to appear in court for her DUI arrest on May 4.

Spears had phenomenal early music success in the late 1990s but has largely stepped back from music in recent years. In her 2023 memoir “The Woman in Me,” Spears insisted she never did hard drugs and that she did not have a drinking problem, though she admitted that she was taking Adderall. 

Following a public breakdown in 2007, Spears was placed under a conservatorship where her father, Jamie Spears, controlled her money and her personal life. That conservatorship was eventually dissolved by a Los Angeles court in 2021 after a groundswell of public support to “Free Britney.”