On the day in question, Lutfi claims she took eight pills earlier and several more later that evening before going off the rails. Lutfi’s claims were laid bare in his defamation case against Lynne Spears which is now before a jury in an LA court.ĭuring proceedings yesterday Lutfi’s lawyer, Joseph Schleimer, told the jury Spears had a script for amphetamines filled. He also claimed that the Grammy winner felt she needed to shave off her hair to hid evidence of drug-taking as she battled ex Kevin Federline for custody of her young sons Sean Preston and Jayden James. Her manager at the time Sam Lutfi, who is now suing Spears’s mother Lynne for her description of him in her new book, claims the singer’s amphetamine use was behind her shocking meltdown. The infamous meltdown occurred on Januwith Britney shaving her hair in a downtown salon just days later.
Paramedics took the mum-of-two from her Los Angeles home after she locked herself in her bathroom with one of her then toddler sons. She also wrote that Britney didn't sleep either and was very agitated.BRITNEY Spears overdosed on amphetamines shortly before she was infamously strapped to a stretcher and taken to hospital where she was placed under pyschiatric hold. (Lynne wrote that she later couldn't sleep that night, nor could her friend Jackie, despite being up past 4 a.m., and both felt like they had drunk coffee, even though they hadn't actually consumed the beverage. "Britney spoke to me with a tone and with the understanding of a very young girl," Lynne wrote, "Britney.picked up a bottle of pills and read the label and asked us, 'What does insomnia mean?' Sam told her that the pills would help her stay awake." MTV reports, "Lynne described Lutfi trying to encourage them to drink tequila shots, and when they refused that, wine, but thought she saw him crushing something on the counter behind the raised bar. In her own petition, Lynne Spears also said that Lutfi drugged Spears, citing specific examples. He claims to control everything-Britney's business manager, her attorneys and the security guards at the gate." He has cut Britney's home phone line and removed her cell-phone chargers.
In his petition, Jamie wrote, " essentially moved into Britney's home and has purported to take control of her life, home, and finances. MTV News reports that in 2008, Spears' parents, Jamie and Lynne Spears, each filed petitions for protective orders to keep Lutfi away from their daughter. I have seen her use alcohol." Weeks prior to the bodyguard blabbing, People reported that Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon labeled the singer a "habitual, frequent and continuous" user of alcohol and controlled substances during a custody hearing. In 2007, one of her former bodyguards told Today (via People) that he witnessed her using drugs, but noted, "I have never seen her use drugs in the presence of her children.Alcohol?.I don't know if 'abuse' is the correct language. It wasn't the first time Spears had been accused of substance abuse. Lutfi's attorney, Joseph Schleimer, told the court, "Britney Spears was addicted to speed, methamphetamine was her drug of choice." He added that Lutfi brought drug-sniffing dogs to Spears' home in an attempt to ensure she was clean, noting, "The dogs found hot spots of drug residue in the carpet and her children crawled on the carpets." The attorney said an overdose on 30 pills led to Spears' psychiatric hold in 2008 Radar Online reports that in a 2012 court hearing, Spears' former "manager" and hanger-on, Osama "Sam" Lutfi, claimed the singer was addicted to drugs.
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