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LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Britney Spears<\/a> refused to get out of her BMW for about 10 minutes before her driving under the influence arrest in March. When she did, the singing superstar<\/a> smelled of booze and appeared drunk in field sobriety tests, according to a police report and dashcam video obtained Friday by The Associated Press. <\/p>\n

\u201cHer speech was rapid and slurred, her gait was unsteady, and she was fidgeting with her fingers,\u201d the report from the California Highway Patrol said. \u201cHer mood changed from confrontational and agitated to flamboyant and compliant. She also appeared to speak with a British accent at times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spears told officers, \u201cI could probably drink four bottles of wine and take care of you, I\u2019m an angel.\u201d <\/p>\n

But she said that in actuality she only had one drink, a mimosa, hours earlier, and she put her level of drunkenness at \u201czero.\u201d Breath tests put her blood alcohol level at .05 and .06, below the .08 level at which someone is presumed impaired in California.<\/p>\n

A bottle of Adderall \u2014 the stimulant used to treat attention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder \u2014 was found by an officer in her purse, and was not prescribed to her, the report said. She also gave a blood sample for a drug test, but those results were not included in the report. <\/p>\n

A Spears representative did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Friday.<\/p>\n

Spears was pulled over<\/a> for speeding and swerving on U.S. 101 in Ventura County near the Los Angeles County line in the area where she lives on March 4, authorities said. She was later charged with misdemeanor DUI and pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. <\/p>\n

Spears at first refused to get out of the car, saying she had been pranked and harassed in the past and as a woman she had a right to decline. She also said she feared getting out on the highway. When officers said they could take her around the corner, she suggested they go to her house. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll make you food or lasagna, whatever you want. I have a pool,\u201d Spears says on the video. <\/p>\n

She was eventually cuffed, taken to jail and released on bail hours later.<\/p>\n

Spears voluntarily checked into a rehabilitation facility<\/a> soon after. <\/p>\n

On May 4 she pleaded guilty to reckless driving involving alcohol and drugs and avoided more jail time. Ventura County prosecutors said the plea agreement is standard offer for defendants with no DUI history, no crash or injury on the road and a low blood-alcohol level.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think anybody\u2019s happy about pleading guilty to anything, but under the circumstances, to get this behind her, I think everybody is pleased with the result,\u201d Spears\u2019 lawyer Michael Goldstein said after the plea hearing, at which she did not appear. <\/p>\n

Spears grew to superstardom in the 1990s and 2000s with several platinum-selling albums and hit singles including \u201cToxic,\u201d \u201c\u2026 Baby One More Time\u201d and \u201cOops! \u2026 I Did It Again.\u201d<\/p>\n

She became a tabloid obsession in the early 2000s and a source of intense public scrutiny as she battled mental illness and paparazzi fought to document her private life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spears spent nearly 14 years in a court-ordered conservatorship controlled primarily by her father before she was freed from it in 2021. Since then she has married, divorced and released a bestselling memoir, \u201cThe Woman in Me.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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This story has been updated to correct the date of Spears\u2019 arrest to March 4, not March 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Britney Spears refused to get out of her BMW for about 10 minutes before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[30487,9645,2356,3071,88,793,4381,243,283989,2825,795],"class_list":["post-659845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-addiction-and-treatment","tag-britney-spears","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-law-enforcement","tag-medication","tag-michael-goldstein","tag-prisons","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659845","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=659845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}