{"id":684714,"date":"2026-05-21T18:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/684714\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:59:12","slug":"britney-spears-allegedly-told-cops-she-took-adderall-prozac-on-day-of-dui-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/684714\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears Allegedly Told Cops She Took Adderall, Prozac on Day of DUI Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Britney Spears<br \/>\n                          Allegedly Admitted to Adderall, Prozac Use During DUI Arrest &#8230;<br \/>\n                          Told Cop &#8216;I&#8217;m An Angel&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              May 21, 2026<br \/>\n                            9:23 AM PDT<br \/>\n                                                                      |<br \/>\n                                                                Updated<br \/>\n                                  May 21, 2026<br \/>\n                                11:18 AM PDT\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"media-link document-block__link js-track-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dam.tmz.com\/document\/32\/o\/2026\/05\/21\/320d4224d9204fe583274678d03445d7.pdf\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:document-asset:document_pdf_20260521_320d4224d9204fe583274678d03445d7\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:1b47f46b-c185-4acf-8f30-3e7fdf2d313d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>              <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cb68f51daa6d4c3b928719be45fc31f5_md.jpg\" alt=\"main-britney-spears-doc-launch-ig-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>11:13 AM PT &#8212; We&#8217;ve obtained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/05\/21\/britney-spears-in-handcuffs-during-dui-arrest-video\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dashcam footage<\/a> from Britney&#8217;s March 4 arrest &#8230; which shows cops questioning her after pulling her over for allegedly swerving through lanes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/britney-spears\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Britney Spears<\/a> allegedly told cops she&#8217;d taken Prozac and Adderall on the day of her shocking DUI arrest and told an officer she could drink four bottles of wine and still take care of him &#8230; this according to the police report.<\/p>\n<p>An officer laid out Spears&#8217; March 4 arrest in great detail in the report, starting from when he says he saw a car crossing into another lane multiple times before he turned on the sirens to pull the car over.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report &#8212; first obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/britney-spears-dui-police-report-reveals-arrest-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Us Weekly<\/a> &#8212; when Spears finally pulled over, after the officer says she initially did not react to his emergency lights, the officer smelled the &#8220;distinct odor of an alcoholic beverage&#8221; and allegedly observed a wine glass in the car&#8217;s cupholder.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1183b0f868a94b37b8ead11587bf673c_md.png\" alt=\"Britney-Spears-audio-art-desktop 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Spears initially refused to get out of the car, the report says &#8230; allegedly telling the cop she &#8220;had the right as a woman not to exit the vehicle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The officer says he asked Spears if she&#8217;d been drinking &#8230; to which he says she told him she&#8217;d had one mimosa several hours earlier but could handle her liquor.<\/p>\n<p>The officer says she told him, &#8220;I could probably drink four bottles of wine and take care of you. I\u2019m an angel.&#8221; She allegedly followed that up by claiming her intoxication level was a 0 out of 10.<\/p>\n<p>Britney allegedly told cops she&#8217;d taken several different prescription drugs on the day of her arrest &#8230; including Adderall, Prozac, and Lamictal &#8212; a mood stabilizer and anticonvulsant.<\/p>\n<p>The officer says Britney experienced frequent mood swings during the arrest &#8212; going from &#8220;confrontational and agitated to flamboyant and compliant.&#8221; He also says she seemed to slip into a British accent at times. Britney also fidgeted a lot during the interaction, cops say.<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/dfba233add484166a0c685ff6b21e7ae_md.png\" alt=\"britney-spears-audio-3\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The officer says Spears submitted to two breathalyzer tests &#8230; and blew .05 and .06 &#8212; below the legal limit of .08 in California. However, the officer says he requested a Drug Recognition Evaluation &#8230; which dispatch audio we obtained back in March confirms.<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/493d1591d0e9490c87527cebd3755e0c_md.png\" alt=\"050426 britney spears hearing kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As we reported &#8230; Britney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/05\/04\/britney-spears-arraigned-on-dui-charge-in-ventura-county\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reached a plea deal<\/a> with prosecutors earlier this month, which resulted in them dropping the DUI charge. The charge was reduced to a &#8220;Wet Reckless&#8221; &#8212; reckless driving involving alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal &#8230; Spears was put on probation for 12 months and cannot possess drugs without a valid prescription.<\/p>\n<p>Spears <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/04\/12\/britney-spears-in-rehab-for-substance-abuse\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">checked into rehab<\/a> shortly after the arrest &#8230; though she ended up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/04\/30\/britney-spears-spotted-for-first-time-since-finishing-rehab-dui-charges\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">checking out<\/a> after just three weeks. Sources told us those close to her wanted her to stay in for more than a month. We were told she was happy, healthy, and centered after rehab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britney Spears Allegedly Admitted to Adderall, Prozac Use During DUI Arrest &#8230; Told Cop &#8216;I&#8217;m An Angel&#8217; Published&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,44,82,865,866],"class_list":["post-684714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684714","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=684714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}