A rehab admission following DUI arrest has been reported involving US pop singer Britney Spears after she was arrested in Ventura County near Los Angeles on suspicion of driving under the influence, according to US media reports.
The 44-year-old singer was arrested in early March by the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department and booked into custody on suspicion of DUI. She was released shortly afterwards. At the time, a representative for Spears described the incident as “completely inexcusable” and said she would “take the right steps and comply with the law", according to entertainment outlet Deadline.
Multiple US media organisations reported on Sunday that Spears has voluntarily checked into a rehabilitation facility. The exact timing of her admission has not been confirmed publicly. She is scheduled to appear in court on 4 May in connection with the DUI case, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Spears rose to global fame in the late 1990s with major hits including “…Baby One More Time", becoming one of the most commercially successful pop artists of her generation. In recent years, she has largely remained outside the mainstream music industry.
In her 2023 memoir The Woman in Me, Spears said she did not have a drinking problem and denied using hard drugs, although she acknowledged using Adderall, a prescription medication for ADHD. Her personal life has long been under public scrutiny following a widely reported breakdown in 2007, which led to a court-ordered conservatorship controlled by her father, Jamie Spears.
That conservatorship, which managed her finances and personal decisions while she continued performing, was terminated by a Los Angeles court in 2021 following public campaigning under the “Free Britney” movement.
The latest development adds renewed attention to Spears’ legal and personal challenges as her DUI case proceeds through the US judicial system.
