Britney placed under 14 day hold

Britney Spears’s hospitalization has been extended to an additional 14-day hold. Britney could potentially be released earlier if she legally demands to be released or her doctor deems her well enough for outpatient treatment.

Early Thursday morning, Britney was rushed by ambulance to the hospital for the second time in a month. Britney was physically removed from her home by police and put into an ambulance at around 1 a.m. PT, then escorted to the UCLA Medical Center by a phalanx of more than a dozen motorcycle officers, two police cruisers and two police helicopters.

Spears was taken to the hospital to “get help,” a LA police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press.

On January 3rd, Britney was placed on a 72-hour mental-health evaluation hold when police were called to her house after she would not give up custody of her two children to a representative for ex-husband Kevin Federline, who had come to pick them up; she was released two days later. The troubled singer lost visitation rights of sons Sean Preston, 2 and Jayden James, 1, on January 4 after her hospitalization following her refusal to hand the children back to Federline.

On Friday, a Los Angeles judge decided that the hospitalized singer’s father, who along with her mother called an emergency hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court, should have control over their daughter’s affairs, at least temporarily.

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