 Britney Spears: Taken to hospital
Pop star Britney Spears was taken to hospital for tests to see if she was under the influence of alcohol or drugs and for a psychological evaluation after police were called to her home Thursday night to mediate a custody dispute, a police spokesman said.
Spears appeared to be conscious as she was rolled out of her Studio City home on a gurney about three hours after police and ambulances arrived there.
Celebrity news website TMZ says Britney Spears has been taken to a hospital for a "medical hold," which it described as a mental evaluation.
An Associated Press photographer outside the gated community that includes Spears' house saw six police cars, an ambulance and a fire engine enter around 10.30pm
The troubled singer was driven away after a tense stand-off lasting nearly three hours in an ambulance for evaluation at hospital. Police officer Jason Lee said Britney Spears had been under the influence of an "unknown substance".
Officer Jason Lee says that officers had been at Spears' hilltop home in the suburb of Studio City since 8pm local time "trying to resolve the dispute peacefully and legally," according to the court order governing Spears' two sons with former husband Kevin Federline.
Aerial footage from local television stations showed Britney Spears being lifted into an ambulance on a trolley. It was unclear where she was being taken. |
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