Last night, while you were holed up on your Ikea couch eating a Totino's Party Pizza and breathlessly watching Intervention on A&E, a real-life intervention was taking place in Hollywood. And just like the show, there is mucho family drama, fighting in the streets, and tweaked wailing. Only the real-life one involved our favorite dainty blossom, Britney Spears. According to TMZ:
TMZ has been reporting for weeks that Britney's family and some professionals in her life have been planning a "creative way" to deal with her mental problems. It looks like the time has arrived.
Sources told TMZ "if it happens," it should happen this week. Last night, Brit's mom, Lynne, her dad, Jamie, cousin Alli, as well as Sam Lutfi and Adnan Ghalib all showed up at Britney's house and were all there at the same time.
Brit's mom and dad (and others) have known for months that a bipolar disorder — and not substance abuse — is at the root of her problems. They cannot involuntarily commit her (impossible under these circumstances) and Brit has refused to voluntarily enter a hospital or even undergo evaluation for the problem. But now the plan is underway.
Here's what's significant: Britney has not spoken to her mom for a while — no contact at all. Last night, Britney and Lynne (along with Sam) left the house at one point and went to the drugstore, so it seems they are now interacting.
There were signs last night that Britney didn't feel as warm toward her dad, that she didn't want anything to do with him.
This move has been in the planning stages for well over a month. It should begin to unfold IF Britney cooperates, and that is the wild card.
However, Us Weekly reports that last night's coming together of Team Spears was a little more volatile:
Sources tells Us the fight was fueled by Lutfi's insistence she speak to her mother, Lynne, Lutfi wanting her to see a psychologist, as well as Lutfi's refusal to let Spears see her paparazzi boyfriend, Adnan Ghalib. Spears – who won telephone rights to speak to her kids Monday, according to court papers – then got into the car of another photographer named Felipe, and drove inside the gates of her home. It was then that her pap boyfriend, Ghalib, tried unsuccessfully to gain entry into her gated community. At 9:07 p.m. Spears' father, Jamie, arrived at the Summit home. After sitting outside the gates for a few minutes, he finally went inside. Spears' mother, Lynne, arrived soon after. At around 9.30 p.m. Spears left her home. She was later seen driving around Los Angeles with Ghalib by her side. Shortly after 11 p.m., Spears and Adnan returned to her home. At 11:15 p.m., Spears was spotted returning to the home. Jamie had left at that point. At 1:20 a.m., Spears went to nearby Longs Drugs with her mother, Lynne, and Lutfi.
Fighting with mom and gay BFF, cruising around aimlessly shortly before midnight, running to the drugstore for some late night Zingers. Sounds exactly like our teenage years in suburbia, only with less Denny's coffee and Nine Inch Nails tapes in the deck of the Dodge Omni, and more stretch marks.
