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Britney Spears, Code Name 'The Package', Rushed To Hospital As GurneyGate 2.0 Unfolds Overnight
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 7:03 AM on February 1, 2008
Oh dear. For those of you who actually sleep at night, you missed a whopper of an evening at the Spears household. After Britney's newly assigned psychiatrist visited her at her house in the early evening, he found her condition and recent antics so dismal, he contacted the LAPD in an attempt to have her officially committed to UCLA Medical Center - a plan that TMZ reports was "days in the making". What followed was an all-night is-she-or-isn't-she-sane frenzy, the timeline of which we've etched out for you after the jump:
7:30pm: Britney's new shrink visits Britney with Lynne Spears in tow, launching rumors (as reported by Page Six) that he rushed to her house because she'd attempted to commit suicide (these rumors have since been debunked.)
11pm: The LAPD arrive at Britney's mansion. Police were reportedly instructed to refer to Britney as "The Package."
12am: Ambulances arrive to transport Britney, once again strapped into a gurney, to UCLA Medical Center.
2am: Just like in GurneyGate 1.0, Britney is held at the hospital on yet another 5150-Crazycakes-Alert.
4am: After doctors' examinations, the LAPD confirms to TMZ that Britney has been ordered to remain in the hospital for a "three day psychiatric hold" under supervision. But in the same breath, TMZ reports that the stay will likely to be extended to 14 days.
5am: US Weekly issues a report that Spears hasn't slept since Saturday, adding substance to the shrink's quick decision to send her to the hospital ASAP.
Phew. Did you get all that?
[Photo Credit: X17]
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blackheartededitor
Posted 5:07 AM 1/2/08
So....any plans for a new album?
blackheartededitor
NoWireHangers
Posted 5:07 AM 1/2/08
Does this mean we won't have to hear about her for 3 to 14 days?
NoWireHangers
bowlingfordollars
Posted 5:07 AM 1/2/08
Man, this is just sad. I have no snark, just want her to get better.
I mean, if she gets well, we can snark on the music and boyfriends and such, like we did pre-drugs and during the time of her hit songs and it's just as fun. This is pathetic.
Get well Britney.
bowlingfordollars
Nomi Malone
Posted 5:07 AM 1/2/08
@Sweet Panda Love: only if her new mercedes is pancaked against a tree, i'm assuming. makes him feel like a superhero!
Nomi Malone
Sweet Panda Love
Posted 5:07 AM 1/2/08
Also Tom Cruise doesn't want to reach out to help during this train wreck? I thought he was the only one who could help!
Sweet Panda Love
SteamyMcFirecrotch
Posted 5:07 AM 1/2/08
Yes, but what was she wearing?
SteamyMcFirecrotch
Sweet Panda Love
Posted 5:07 AM 1/2/08
Oh please. Please please please let her finally be getting some goddamn fucking help.
Sweet Panda Love
viruswithshoes
Posted 5:07 AM 1/2/08
That's weird - I refer to my "package" as "Britney". Crazy world, eh?
viruswithshoes
Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.
Posted 7:07 AM 1/2/08
@TheGrandToenail: Hey, the more "former" the better. She needs to move on from that moniker into something a grownup can be.
Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.
ElizabethD
Posted 7:07 AM 1/2/08
Not to be picky, but isn't Brit's psychiatrist a "she" not a "he"?
ElizabethD
TheGrandToenail
Posted 7:07 AM 1/2/08
@nowirehangers:
Did they say that? "Former"? Damn bro, that's cold.
TheGrandToenail
hollywodpastor
Posted 7:07 AM 1/2/08
Pray...
hollywodpastor
Trixie from Toronto
Posted 7:07 AM 1/2/08
How is this 5150 different from the last 5150, when she insisted she wasn't suicidal, had a tantrum and was out in two days?
I suspect Britney will be wandering around gas stations in ripped fishnets and talking in an English accent by the end of the weekend.
Tally ho, y'all!
Trixie from Toronto
Tiger_Tanaka
Posted 7:07 AM 1/2/08
The hell with her. Who is her sister's baby's daddy?
Tiger_Tanaka
heidiho
Posted 7:07 AM 1/2/08
If they love her at all, Brit's dad and brother will give that Sam Lufti piece of shit a good old-fashioned country ass kicking.
heidiho
Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.
Posted 7:07 AM 1/2/08
Well she's been treated like "The Package" rather than a person pretty much her whole life, why not call her that while hauling her off to the mental ward?
Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.
jasonelias
Posted 7:07 AM 1/2/08
Ever since she cheated on Justin Timberlake her life has been in a downward spiral.
jasonelias
NoWireHangers
Posted 7:07 AM 1/2/08
@blackheartededitor: The ABC morning news referred to her occupation as "former pop star."
NoWireHangers
Barbarella
Posted 8:07 AM 1/2/08
@blackheartededitor: Yes, it will be entitled " BRITNEY SPEARS: REDEFINING CRAZY"
Barbarella
WasatchMan
Posted 8:07 AM 1/2/08
Looks like we're in Frances Farmer territory now.
WasatchMan
BigBoobsMagee
Posted 8:07 AM 1/2/08
@LIttle Mintz Sunshine:
Co-dependent?
BigBoobsMagee
SuperStarSteve
Posted 8:07 AM 1/2/08
This young woman is in trouble. It's about time they take her in and figure just what is going on inside the windmills of her mind. If it turns out that it's not all drug related, then does she get put into a 'funny farm'? I've been trying to figure what drug "it" was, and have a few theories, but I think it's part mental breakdown as well. She's just not with it, and it taking drugs (of some sort) to help ease her meltdown and it's making her worse. Leave her alone for 14 days and hopefully she'll get some kind of balance back to her life.
SuperStarSteve
LIttle Mintz Sunshine
Posted 8:07 AM 1/2/08
Another fine use of my tax dollars. Can I claim Britney as a dependent or as a charitable donation for '07?
LIttle Mintz Sunshine
shag_carpet_bomb
Posted 9:07 AM 1/2/08
The LAPD is giving statements on mental patients to TMZ? Nice. She really, really needs to sell the house and get outta Hollywood.
shag_carpet_bomb
hart88
Posted 9:07 AM 1/2/08
@blackheartededitor: as soon as they can get Britney and Courtney Love's rehab schedule synched up.
hart88
OldTowneTavern
Posted 9:07 AM 1/2/08
She hasn't slept for five days?!? She should have taken Bill Clinton's seat behind that minister.
OldTowneTavern
mesousa
Posted 11:07 AM 1/2/08
Her Codename Was "The Package"
~in theatres July 4th~
Sounds to me we finally have a chance for her to be a Bond girl.
mesousa
Trixie from Toronto
Posted 11:07 AM 1/2/08
@sundaeg1rl: The funny thing is, her accent is totally bang-on. Bang on as in just as good as Renee Z's Bridget Jones accent. Who knew?
@WasatchMan: That's what I've been thinking for weeks. Locked up against her will by her family, who think she's insane even though she insists she's not.
Trixie from Toronto
sundaeg1rl
Posted 11:07 AM 1/2/08
@WasatchMan: Oooh, spooky! I was thinking the exact same thing. I can't wait for the lobotomy rumours to start!
@Trixie from Toronto: Brit goes Brit? this brit says "Blimey!"
sundaeg1rl
Trixie from Toronto
Posted 12:07 PM 1/2/08
@mockingbird: Interesting, and something I didn't know. So will she actually have to stay in this time? Because the girl just really needs to sleep for a long, long time. She's going to wake up all embarrassed. "What? I was talking in an English accent all the time? Fuck!!!"
Trixie from Toronto
mockingbird
Posted 12:07 PM 1/2/08
@Trixie from Toronto: It's different because they took her to a real hospital this time, not the celeb "friendly" Cedars.
Cedars Sinai: We might almost kill your newborns, but we'll let you out early when you're having a psychotic break! Come in soon and take advantage of our Lindsay special: get treated for "exhaustion" and we'll throw in "appendicitis" for free!
mockingbird
PaisleyPajamas
Posted 1:07 PM 1/2/08
@mockingbird: I've heard the same thing, i.e., Cedar-Sinai is for the Ho'wood crowd as St. John's in Santa Monica is to the Malibu set. Rules need not apply.
PaisleyPajamas
foofer
Posted 3:07 PM 1/2/08
"the girl just really needs to sleep"... um and what? she is going to wake up and no longer be bipolar? A few nights of sleep will cure her? If she is indeed bipolar.. she is going to need medication. She is no Frances Farmer, please. Francis Farmer is an extreme example of someone who was mistreated by an outdated/older system who's laws have been overturned now. You can no longer place some one in a hospital indefinitely (unless they are in prison), or lobotomize them. Neither of these things are going to happen to Britney.
foofer
LIttle Mintz Sunshine
Posted 3:07 PM 1/2/08
@mockingbird: @PaisleyPajamas: UCLA once "lost" a friend of mine's dad. Hey, he was only an elderly, sedated heart patient. They found him three hours later (alive, so alas no lawsuit). In a hallway. In the maternity ward.
LIttle Mintz Sunshine
dr. foofer
Posted 5:07 PM 1/2/08
comparing her to Francis Farmer doesn't do her any favors, although it's good comedy at a sick person's expense.
dr. foofer
Trixie from Toronto
Posted 5:07 PM 1/2/08
@foofer: Sorry, Dr. Foofer, I wasn't suggesting she wasn't bi-polar, although, let's face it, neither you nor I know whether she IS in fact bi-polar, because we are anonymous commenters on a celebrity gossip blog -- I was just saying that no sleep for five days? That's going to fuck up anyone badly. She needs a nice, long, 48-hour sleep.
Trixie from Toronto
KittyCarlisle
Posted 7:07 PM 1/2/08
@TrixiefromToronto - Hilarious.
@DrFoofer - Ease up, Doc. It's funny. and pretty fair-minded by Defamer standards. Jeez.
p.s. She's probably suffering from Histrionic Syndrome as well. At least she's limiting the pretension to the bad Posh Spice imitation. She could be applauding by snapping her fingers. Yikes.
KittyCarlisle
LIttle Mintz Sunshine
Posted 7:07 PM 1/2/08
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Thanks. I'm here all week.
Unless I'm being treated for Epstein-Barr, ADD, ADHD, PMS, Exhaustion, Anxiety, PMDD (which is real, so STFU), Acid-Reflux, OCD, or Hypo-Thyroidism.
LIttle Mintz Sunshine
GBU-52
Posted 7:07 PM 1/2/08
Jeezus Crist!!! Is everyone with a problem called bi-polar nowadays? Okay, yes, we have two concious conditions; 'sober' and 'stoned' so that makes you bi-polar?! It is the fall back excuse to explain their behavior, pure Bull Shiite...Would everyone leave the Broad alone before they truly drive her nuts and into the land of no return. She is the direct product of USE's (United States of Entertainment) insaitable obession with celebrity status. Sickening!!! What about our true stars that really contribute to our lives like; doctors, nurses, Soldiers, Marines, scientists, Police, etc... who get almost no recognition. No wonder our culture has gone down the crapper, pathetic...
GBU-52
I-heart-Rien
Posted 2:07 AM 2/2/08
Meth will do that to a girl! just ask Sizemore.
I-heart-Rien
Trixie from Toronto
Posted 3:07 AM 2/2/08
@dr. foofer: Newsflash: I don't think she's reading this!
Trixie from Toronto
Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.
Posted 1:07 PM 2/2/08
@dr. foofer: Defamer policy: cruel to be kind. And forgive me if I chime in with my medical own expertise, evidenced in my screen name, to say that, even if she is bi-polar (or as they say in the medical profession: batshit crazy), she could use some sleep. And french fries.
Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.
dr. foofer
Posted 5:07 PM 2/2/08
Your Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins, III, ESQ. I am going to eat some fries, and go take a nap. I think both sound quite nice and have great curative powers. Excellent prescription! A burger and a shake as well.
"Da mihi sis bubulae frustrum assae, solana tuberosa in modo gallico fricta, ac quassum lactatum coagulatum crassum"
dr. foofer