Pop star Britney Spears miraculously cheated death as she swerved dangerously over the center line and pulled a wild U-turn with her tires screeching on a winding highway on her way home from a night out in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Britney, 43, was also filmed tailgating and meandering into the bike lane, according to Page Six.
She was returning from dinner at Red O, where her erratic behavior, including wandering unsteadily around the eatery holding hands with another woman, knocking over glasses and dropping things, attracted the attention of other patrons.
But Red O’s general manager, Oliver Wynn, told US Weekly Britney was not drunk. He says she only ordered “a quesadilla and no alcohol.” Although a fan brought a glass of wine to her table, she “was not intoxicated.”
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The outing came the day after the release of her ex-husband Kevin Federline’s memoir, You Thought You Knew. In the tell-all, the former backup dancer and the father of Britney’s sons, Sean, 20, and Jayden, 19, claims she did cocaine while breastfeeding, cheated with a backup dancer and once stood outside the boys’ bedroom with a knife in her hand while they slept.
Although Britney’s rep blasted the book, claiming Kevin is “profiting off her” and “all she cares about are her kids,” the scandalous revelations have caused her to spin “out of control,” the insider says. An insider adds she’s been hitting the booze hard recently to numb the pain of her lonely life, but it’s ultimately doing her a lot more harm than good.
“Barely a day goes by without Britney falling over or harming herself in some way,” says the insider. Recent photos on TikTok reveal injuries, including bruises all over her body and a bandaged knee.
“The elephant in the room for Britney is her boozing. Way too often she’s chugging wine or cocktails, which don’t mix well with the medications she takes, then stumbling around and falling flat on her face,” the source says.
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In March she admitted to drowning her sorrows, telling fans on Instagram, “I don’t like drinking. I do it for my heart when it’s been through too much but I’m weird.”
According to our insider, “It doesn’t take a genius to figure this is headed for disaster sooner or later, but try telling that to Britney. She’s all over the map right now and booze is one of the few pleasures she has left.”