{"id":601290,"date":"2026-04-13T14:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/601290\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:02:08","slug":"britney-spears-checks-herself-into-treatment-facility-after-arrest-on-suspicion-of-dui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/601290\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears checks herself into treatment facility after arrest on suspicion of DUI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

Britney Spears at the 29th annual GLAAD Media Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., in April, 2018.Chris Pizzello\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Britney Spears has entered a substance abuse treatment facility just over a month after she was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence<\/a> of alcohol and drugs.<\/p>\n

A representative for Spears said in an e-mail to The Associated Press on Sunday that the 44-year-old pop superstar had voluntarily checked herself into the facility.<\/p>\n

On March 5, California Highway Patrol officers received a report that a BMW was driving fast and erratically on U.S. 101 in Ventura County near the Los Angeles County line, the CHP said.<\/p>\n

Spears, who lives in the area, took a series of field sobriety tests and was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of a combination of alcohol and drugs, authorities said. She was taken to a county jail and released several hours later.<\/p>\n

Investigators turned over the case on March 23 to the Ventura County District Attorney\u2019s Office, which plans to make a decision on charges against Spears before a scheduled May 4 court date.<\/p>\n

A representative at the time called Spears\u2019 actions \u201ccompletely inexcusable\u201d and said it would ideally be \u201cthe first step in long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spears has mostly set aside her music career. She has not toured in nearly eight years and has not put out an album in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n

In 2021, she regained control of her life decisions and finances when a court-ordered conservatorship was dissolved after nearly 14 years. Two years later, she released a bestselling memoir, The Woman in Me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Britney Spears at the 29th annual GLAAD Media Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif.,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,1008],"class_list":{"0":"post-601290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-pleasemod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}