Britney Spears spent a few hours behind bars after she was arrested for driving under the influence in Ventura County, California.
According to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, Spears, 44, was booked into the pretrial detention facility at 3:02 a.m. on Thursday, March 5 and cited. The pop star was released at 6:07 a.m, spending just over three hours in jail.
Spears was also given a court date of May 4.
Spears was arrested on Wednesday, March 4, for a DUI after being pulled over by police. Luxury Handbag Shopping obtained 911 dispatch audio which revealed Spears appeared to be “speeding,” going “in and out of lanes” and driving “erratic[ly] braking, swerving and driving with no taillight.”
“This was an unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable,” Spears’ rep told Us in a statement. “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. Hopefully, she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time.”
The rep added that Spears will be “spending time” with her sons, Preston, 20, and Jayden, 19, whom she shares with ex-husband Kevin Federline.
“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.
TMZ reported that Spears was transported to a hospital by California Highway Patrol for a blood test to determine her blood alcohol content (BAC). The pop star’s BAC level was .06, which is under the legal limit, per the outlet. The official results have not been publicly released.
Spears’ arrest comes five years after the termination of her conservatorship in 2021. Following a series of personal struggles in the early 2000s, the singer’s father, Jamie Spears, acted as her conservator of her estate and person.
Britney wrote about how she struggled while under conservatorship in her 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. “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.”
