{"id":580703,"date":"2026-04-13T00:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580703\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T00:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:51:08","slug":"britney-spears-checks-into-rehab-for-substance-abuse-weeks-after-dui-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580703\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears checks into rehab for substance abuse weeks after DUI arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britney Spears is in rehab following her DUI arrest<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

A rep for Spears confirmed to Page Six on Sunday that Spears has voluntarily checked herself into a treatment facility.<\/p>\n

The new development comes weeks after her arrest on a DUI charge in Ventura, California.
She\u2019s due in court on May 4. <\/p>\n

Britney Spears has checked herself into rehab, a rep for the singer confirmed to Page Six. britneyspears\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Spears was arrested for DUI on March 4. Getty Images<\/p>\n

She\u2019s been supported by her sons<\/a> Sean Preston, 20, and Jayden James, 19, over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n

Sources told us that Spears\u2019 arrest came as a wake-up call.<\/p>\n

At the time of the arrest, a source exclusively told us the singer,<\/a> 44, was \u201cincredibly emotional.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to our source, Spears \u201cfelt ashamed and embarrassed\u201d and is \u201cvery sorry\u201d for what happened.<\/p>\n

Spears was swerving in and out of lanes ahead of her arrest, according to cops. GC Images<\/p>\n

Sources told us that Spears\u2019 arrest came as a wake-up call. Britney Spears\/Instagram<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s been a very hard couple of months,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n

The news of her decision to enter rehab was first reported by Celebrity Intelligence with Dan Wakeford<\/a>. <\/p>\n

On March 4, Spears was taken into custody after authorities saw her\u00a0swerving in and out of lanes<\/a>. They also allegedly\u00a0discovered an unknown substance<\/a>\u00a0inside her car during her arrest and she is believed to have been\u00a0on a cocktail of alcohol and drugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She was released the following morning, per arrest records from the Ventura County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Spears has been supported by her sons, Sean Preston (pictured here) and Jayden James. britneyspears\/Instagram<\/p>\n

The singer recently spent time with her sons on a yacht. britneyspears\/Instagram<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the Ventura County District Attorney\u2019s Office told the California Post, \u201cThe DUI case against Britney Spears has been submitted to the Ventura County District Attorney\u2019s Office and is under review by our prosecutors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spears broke her silence on her arrest late last month on Instagram, when she shared videos with Jayden.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThank you guys for all your support\u2026 spending time with family and friends is such a blessing!\u201d Spears wrote.<\/p>\n

The \u201cToxic\u201d singer recently shared videos of her yacht getaway<\/a> with her two sons.<\/p>\n

She spent Easter Sunday with her unexpected celeb pals<\/a> \u2014 songwriter Diane Warren and actress Molly Shannon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britney Spears is in rehab following her DUI arrest last month. A rep for Spears confirmed to Page…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[9645,236,91,44141,88,216,89290],"class_list":{"0":"post-580703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-britney-spears","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-celebrity-news","11":"tag-dui","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-rehab"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}