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Mr Schleimer suggested Britney was concerned a judge would test her hair for drug use - and she could lose custody of her two young children if the test came back positive. Mr Schleimer claimed his client tried to get Britney to meet with a psychiatrist two days beforehand - but she refused.įurthermore, Lutfi claimed that Britney was paranoid her hair contained traces of the drugs she was using at the time. On the day in question, Lutfi claims she took eight pills earlier and several more later that evening before going off the rails.
Lutfi’s claims were laid bare in his defamation case against Lynne Spears which is now before a jury in an LA court.ĭuring proceedings yesterday Lutfi’s lawyer, Joseph Schleimer, told the jury Spears had a script for amphetamines filled. He also claimed that the Grammy winner felt she needed to shave off her hair to hid evidence of drug-taking as she battled ex Kevin Federline for custody of her young sons Sean Preston and Jayden James. Her manager at the time Sam Lutfi, who is now suing Spears’s mother Lynne for her description of him in her new book, claims the singer’s amphetamine use was behind her shocking meltdown. The infamous meltdown occurred on Januwith Britney shaving her hair in a downtown salon just days later. Paramedics took the mum-of-two from her Los Angeles home after she locked herself in her bathroom with one of her then toddler sons. BRITNEY Spears overdosed on amphetamines shortly before she was infamously strapped to a stretcher and taken to hospital where she was placed under pyschiatric hold.