Britney Spears was reportedly taken to the hospital after being released from police custody after her DUI arrest.
According to TMZ, Spears, 44, was transported by California Highway Patrol in order to have her blood drawn and tested to determine her blood alcohol content. The outlet reported that the singer’s BAC level was .06, which is under the legal limit, but the official results have not been publicly released.
Luxury Handbag Shopping confirmed Spears was arrested just before 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4. Ventura County Sheriff’s Office records state that she was booked in the early hours of Thursday, March 5, before being released at 6:07 a.m.
“This was an unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable,” Spears’ rep told Us in a statement on Thursday. “Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law, and hopefully this can be the first step in long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney’s life.”
The statement continued, “Hopefully, she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time.”
Spears’ rep confirmed that her sons, Preston, 20, and Jayden, 19 — whom she shares with ex-husband Kevin Federline — are “going to be spending time” with their mother.
“Her loved ones are going to come up with an overdue, needed plan to set her up for success for well-being,” the statement concluded.
Online records confirm that Spears is due in court on May 4. Her Instagram appeared to be deactivated on Thursday.
Spears’ arrest comes nearly five years after her conservatorship ended.
Following her 2007 divorce from Federline, now 47, and a series of public ups and downs, Spears was put under a conservatorship. Several people, including her father, Jamie Spears, took charge of her legal, financial and business decisions.
After 13 years, a judge terminated the conservatorship in November 2021.
Spears later detailed what her conservatorship experience was like in her 2023 bestselling memoir, The Woman in Me.
“I became a robot. But not just a robot — a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself,” she wrote at the time. “The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me.”
