Britney’s aunt: “She needs to be on suicide watch!”
Last Thursday night, Britney Spears’ apparent mental illness — speculated to be anything from bipolar disorder to postpartum depression — was undeniable to the world.
“She needs to be on suicide watch,” her aunt, Chanda McGovern, tells Us Weekly in its latest issue.
The nightmare scenario came to a boil when Spears, frustrated by a custody deposition earlier in the day, refused to turn over her sons, Sean, 2, and Jayden, 16 months, to ex-husband Kevin Federline’s bodyguard as planned at 7 p.m.
When Mark Vincent Kaplan, Federline’s attorney, appeared to show the court papers of the visitation, the singer “lost it,” an insider told Us. “She screamed, ‘Get him out of my house!’ She hates Kaplan.”
The 26-year-old then locked herself in a bathroom with Jayden. “She was crying and freaking out. She kept saying she wanted her babies,” a Spears insider tells Us.
Us has learned Federline made desperate calls to Spears’ estranged parents, Lynne and Jamie, from Cedars-Senai, where Spears was rushed by ambulance.
Britney father, who showed up to around 1 a.m., “has cried a lot of Britney and Jamie Lynn, but he was just happy to be with his baby again,” an insider says.
At the hospital (mom Lynne stayed with Jamie Lynn in Kentwood, Louisiana), Britney and her father held hands as she slept. “Britney was resting and Jamie was watching football,” says the insider, who adds that Jamie insisted Lynne and Jamie Lynn only to talk to Britney through him.
As Spears left the hospital following a rocky visit from Dr. Phil, Jamie “did talk to her about going to a mental facility,” says the insider. “But she freaked out and said, ‘Now you want me to go to rehab again? I don’t need to be locked away!’”
Spears, meanwhile, has spent much of her time since leaving the hospital on Saturday with married paparazzo Adnan Ghalib, who has been shopping photos of a partially nude Spears to tabloids for $1 million — cash, a source says.
“He’s been trying to get with her because she is his meal ticket,” Gina Bisignano, his neighbor is L.A.’s Encino area, tells Us.
Adds Spears aunt, Chanda McGovern: “I’m truly, truly concerned. I don’t think things can get any worse now than us losing her completely.”
January 9th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
If people truly care about you, they would not constantly degrade you in public, even if you do that already. They should take the higher ground, set an example. Her family does not love her. They are actively trying to destroy her. Why?.
Is Britneys’ break with her mother and Kevin due to their demands for her money?. Did they turn on her because she no longer supports them financially?. Are they tearing her down in public with constant references to her being crazy so they can push her over the edge emotionally and legally get their hands on her finances?.
I think Federline is using his custody battle to get as much of Britneys’ money as possible. We can never know what drove this young woman to shave her head last year. She looked so emotionally broken in those pictures. Another thing that struck me when she shaved her head; usually rape victims cut/shave their hair out of self-loathing. I have always wondered if Britney was the victim of spousal rape and had no one(namely her mother)to turn to for support, because she didn’t acquiese to her familys’ financial demands. Something is really wrong here, and, someone may have intentionally lit this fuse to get this exact reaction from Britney and the public.