Was it Britney Spears dad who called in Dr. Phil?
The circumstances behind Dr. Phil’s surprise visit to Britney Spears at the Cedars-Sinai psych ward this weekend are now becoming clear.
A source exclusively tells PageSix.com that Brit’s dad, Jamie, is the one who sounded the emergency on the red Phil phone once he learned his daughter was checking out early. The TV doctor walked Brit to her dad’s car, and the father/daughter duo drove home together.
Our source explains that one-time restaraunteur Jamie believed that Phil would be able to keep Brit at Cedars, despite the doc’s assertion that he would not have the power to do so. The source adds, “Phil was absolutely brought in to intervene with Britney leaving the hospital against medical advice.”
Dr. Phil has been in contact with the family for over a year, and it’s the Spears clan who have wanted to bring their troubled daughter on his show. Our spy says that Dr. Phil,”absolutely never wanted or planned on bringing Britney on the show.”
So why the falling out? We are told exclusively that Jamie became “engraged and angry” when Dr. Phil was unable to convince Britney to stay.
Our source tells us that the family is blaming the wrong person for this tragic situation. The family is a big source of angst to Britney our source tells us, and they are “doing nothing to help her” at this time.
Of her whereabouts right now, calls to Brit’s pal Sam Lutfi were unreturned, but our family source told us that “she is still with Adnan–but safe for now.”
