The Sun: Britney Spears collapsed with exhaustion in 2007 after being plied with prescription drugs by her management, her former friend claims

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SINGER Britney Spears collapsed from a suspected overdose after being plied with prescription drugs by her management, her former pal claimed last night.

Speaking out for the first time to defend the star, Sean Phillip, whom Britney lived with for a time, said that Britney’s controlling father Jamie did nothing to help as she plunged into addiction to pills and amphetamines.

As the singer fights to overturn Jamie’s controversial conservatorship, Sean told The Sun the recovering alcoholic dad spent years “milking the Britney cash cow”.

And he recalled how Britney was tipped over the edge as she collapsed with exhaustion after a New Year’s Eve gig in 2007.
He claimed the incident sparked her mental collapse, leading to her infamous head-shaving incident.

Sean said: “Jamie only wanted to be Britney’s father when she turned 26 and was a multi-millionaire.
“When she started having problems, he came in — but he had no compassion, and just didn’t seem to care about his daughter’s wellbeing.
“He had every opportunity to stop what was happening to her — her descent into prescription pill addiction — but he didn’t. I believe 100 per cent he was an enabler.”
'NO COMPASSION'
He went on: “Hollywood has a terrible reputation for doctors and lawyers working together. That’s what killed Michael Jackson. I believe Jamie was in contact and in cahoots with management throughout much of what happened.”

Towards the end of his time with Britney, management stopped paying him.
But he continued to stay with her for free because he had concerns over her well-being. 
On Wednesday, Britney told a US court she wants her father Jamie prosecuted for his alleged “conservatorship abuse”.
She told a judge by phone: “I’m here to press charges. I’m angry and I will go there. You’re allowing my dad to ruin my life.”

Following a ruling allowing her to choose her own lawyer in her fight to end the legal arrangement, the singer posted an Instagram video of herself doing cartwheels in celebration.

She added a caption thanking her loyal supporters and using their “#FreeBritney” hashtag. Sean is backing her campaign by giving his inside account of the chaotic years leading up to the conservatorship.
And he revealed how Jamie’s control of the pop icon started even before he was given conservatorship powers.

Sean said: “It was crazy. They took away her credit cards, her phone went, she wasn’t even given the access code to her own house.
“All she had financially — and this is long before the s*** hit the fan, this is before the head shaving incident — all she had was a piece of paper with one credit card number on to pay for things.

“But she didn’t actually have the card in her hands. It was a black Amex which was assigned to her manager’s business. So we would be left with bills for things that we couldn’t really afford.

'IT WAS CRAZY'
“We once stayed at The Standard hotel in Los Angeles, and couldn’t pay for it at the end because we had no means. Stuff like this would happen loads.

“Britney never talked to me about money. But she would ask me, ‘How much did that cost?’.
“When she moved, she asked me a few weeks later, ‘Sean, how much did the house cost?’. And she didn’t know, and I didn’t know either.
“People around her saying, ‘Order this private jet, buy this house, go shopping if you want’, but it’s like, where is the rest of the money going? Is it invested? Is it in a bank account? Right now, I don’t think she has access to knowing.

“I don’t think she knows her net worth. I honestly don’t think she has any idea of how much money she has.”

Jamie was first introduced to Britney through mutual friends in 2003 but initially started working for her as a personal trainer in October 2006.

He claims the superstar was given two UNKNOWN pills daily  and believes the singer was a puppet controlled by those paid to look after her.

And he believes the singer was a puppet controlled by those paid to look after her.
He witnessed her being given the drugs but never noted the brand name down. He said: “I don’t think I wanted to know.”

Sean soon started taking care of Britney’s day-to-day life, and became one of her most trusted allies. Despite slurs that the Toxic singer, who has sold more than 100million albums, was using drugs, Sean said he never saw her take any illegal drugs.
He went on: “Things started becoming uncomfortable when my role turned into a 24-hour job. I was the stylist, I was the babysitter, I was the trainer, I was security, I was the paparazzi liaison officer — begging them to not take pictures of her.

“Then management would chime in just every now and then and be like, ‘Just make sure she takes those pills’.

“And I said, ‘No, I’m not a doctor or nurse. I’m not doing that’. At this stage, Britney wasn’t her normal self. But I never noticed any drug use at all. We would go out to clubs and have a couple of cocktails, but that was it.

'UNCOMFORTABLE'
“They tried to impose this drugs narrative on her, again, as a means of discrediting her and getting more control over her life.”
Last month Britney said she was forced to take lithium against her will in a court hearing. She said her therapist forced her to take lithium, a drug used for mood stabilization. 
Sean, who now works in wildlife and conservation, recalls another shocking incident on New Year’s Eve 2007 in Las Vegas, when Britney’s team covered up a collapse.
He says that after she fainted in Pure nightclub, management tried to give her a suspected amphetamine to get her conscious and functioning again. At the time, representatives for Britney denied the episode and claimed that she had left the club because she was “tired”.

Sean insisted: “The reality is that she was exhausted. She was being worked to the bone, and was in no fit state to still be performing.
“The medication she was on was not helping her at all. She was becoming paranoid like I’d never, ever seen her before. She fainted in the club at the party she was hosting.

“I had to get her out, carrying her over my shoulder with a black suit jacket thrown over her, and stopping people trying to take pictures on their phones.

“By the time we got back upstairs she was fine, but crying hysterically, and so upset. She was saying, ‘Why am I so accessible? Why am I still doing club gigs?’.

“That night, management came up and were trying to give her something, in pill form, and I said, ‘No, it’s not happening’. She was just overwhelmed. I begged for them to let her rest.”

A few days later, Britney went on a rampage and lashed out at a photographer’s car, smacking it with an umbrella. She was descending into chaos.

I had to get her out, carrying her over my shoulder with a black suit jacket thrown over her, and stopping people trying to take pictures on their phones.
Sean Phillip

Her behaviour in public became increasingly erratic, with boozy nights out with party pals including Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.
Meanwhile, her on-stage performances were heavily criticised for being stilted and robotic. Terrifyingly, in January 2008, she was pictured being carted out of her house strapped to a wheeled stretcher.

It was reported she had taken prescription amphetamines and locked herself in the bathroom with youngest son Jayden, as she refused to hand him back to ex-husband Kevin Federline.

Within days, a court deemed her unfit to look after her own affairs, and her father was given control of her estate and all aspects of her career and life.

Sean said: “Britney was just so sweet, kind, loving and fun — and also so much smarter than people gave her credit for.

“Her meltdown wasn’t because she was crazy. It was because what was happening to her was driving her mad. Jamie was known as a raging alcoholic. He seemed largely indifferent about his daughter.

“Management wanted to control and manipulate the energy around her. They just wanted to milk their cash cow.”
Sean said he would get random phone calls from people saying they wanted to help Britney.

He continued: “I remember Mel Gibson was one of them, telling her that Christianity would save her and to turn back to God. It was all quite surreal.”

Source: https://www.google.com.br/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/15614693/britney-spears-pills-cash-hell-pal/amp/

BRITNEY Spears went missing for 24 hours and was found by strangers on the street, one of her former best pals has revealed.
The bombshell revelation was made by one of her closest confidantes in a world-exclusive interview with The Sun.

Sean Phillip, first introduced to Britney through mutual friends in 2003 but started working for her, initially as a personal trainer, in October 2006, said the incident happened after her meltdown in 2007 when she had shaved off all of her hair.

Sean was holidaying in Jamaica at the time but was immediately called and asked to fly home.
The star then went AWOL for 24 hours before Sean got another call from an unknown number.

Sean explained: “At this point in her life, Britney was going out and meeting random people when she was in a very vulnerable state.

I got a call from these random surfers in Malibu who said they had Britney, and did I want to pick her up?
Sean PhillipBritney's Best Friend

“I then get this call from these random surfers in Malibu who said they had Britney, and did I want to pick her up? They’d found my number on that old bit of paper she carried around with her numbers on it.

“Britney was upset, she felt so sad because the whole world was watching her. She was on every newspaper cover, every magazine, on every TV.

“That night I got her home and cooked her dinner, and the house landline kept ringing with people offering support.”

One of those people who called her included Hollywood actor Mel Gibson, 65.

In his explosive interview with The Sun, Sean also revealed he believed the only thing that kept Britney going was her two sons, Sean, 15, and Jaden, 14, from her marriage to Kevin Federline.
He said: “I honestly believe she might be dead if it weren’t for her kids - she’s a great, loving mother.

“I feel like when money gets involved, the people who are being paid are more worried about where their money is going than about anything else, or her welfare.

Source: https://www.google.com.br/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/15612648/britney-spears-missing-24-hours-found-surfers/amp/

[WhatTheHellWhoCares?]

I hate how people act like it’s such a bad thing that she may have have taken pills or drank too much in her 20’s and that’s why Jamie stepped in. 
Like, that’s average behaviour for young people ESPECIALLY in Hollywood. I agree with her lawyer, Britney never needed the conservatorship. 

[Matou]

OMG 

Change this title I almost died

[Jadedkitten]

Dude wtf I thought something happened to her recently 

[Soso]

Who is this guy  Don Phillip? 

[NotBuyingIt]

17 minutes ago, WhatTheHellWhoCares? said:

I hate how people act like it’s such a bad thing that she may have have taken pills or drank too much in her 20’s and that’s why Jamie stepped in. 
Like, that’s average behaviour for young people ESPECIALLY in Hollywood. I agree with her lawyer, Britney never needed the conservatorship. 

Right? For ****s sake, 85% of my college campus was binge drinking into oblivion. It was a party school in the middle of cornfields. I had several parties where I started anywhere from 9 to 11 AM and didn't come home until sunrise - we'd be drinking on and off throughout days like Saint Patrick's Day, etc.

I remember when Perez Hilton frantically stated she was on molly the night of her Vegas wedding. And? So were half of us at every night club in my 20s... and we sure as hell didn't need Jamie Spears and Vivian Thoreen to step in for us!

I'm now completely independent with a job in a great field and a salary that is above average in my major city. And I have probably 2.5 standard glasses of wine (I'm LITERALLY talking about the 6 oz cups, not the giant glasses ) when I go out nowadays.

This is BULL S H & T.

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4 minutes ago, Matou said:

OMG 

Change this title I almost died

 

1 minute ago, Jadedkitten said:

Dude wtf I thought something happened to her recently 

Sorry, i just copied the headline of The Sun article. Put 2007 on it to not make any confusion.

[MinakoS]

Me reading the title 

[colormefresh]

Found her on the street? That sounds so dramatic.

A headline Team Colon would be proud of.

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3 minutes ago, Soso said:

Who is this guy  Don Phillip? 

It’s Sean Phillip

[Matou]

1 minute ago, derriereondisplay said:

 

Sorry, i just copied the headline of The Sun article. Put 2007 on it to not make any confusion.

Thanks bc this and the first sentence "SINGER Britney Spears collapsed from a suspected overdose after being plied with prescription drugs by her management, her former pal claimed last night. " I was near to cry

[joe sp]

Team con was getting ready for the c-ship

I can't wait to hear Britney's version of all this mess

[LanaDelGeyJordeezy]

I don't really remember him

[queenofhearts]

God Bless this guy. what a true friend.

But I don't understand this part:

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Sean said: “It was crazy. They took away her credit cards, her phone went, she wasn’t even given the access code to her own house.
“All she had financially — and this is long before the s*** hit the fan, this is before the head shaving incident — all she had was a piece of paper with one credit card number on to pay for things.

“But she didn’t actually have the card in her hands. It was a black Amex which was assigned to her manager’s business. So we would be left with bills for things that we couldn’t really afford.

how did she not physically have her own credit cards if this was around the time of the head shaving incident which is also way before the conservatorship? who took them?

[Applejack]

Y'all know he's saying her team/family was overdosing her with prescription pills to discredit her?

[Slave4Brit88]

Annoys me that they mess up the timeline and say she got put into c-ship after the first 5150 which is wrong. It’s extremely important to note she was released after being deemed not a risk to herself or others and then three weeks later the planned 5150 operation happened. So many times this is left out of the story and it’s so crucial it really infuriates me. Is it lazy reporting or deliberate?

[Heitorzinho]

3 minutes ago, Slave4Brit88 said:

Annoys me that they mess up the timeline and say she got put into c-ship after the first 5150 which is wrong. It’s extremely important to note she was released after being deemed not a risk to herself or others and then three weeks later the planned 5150 operation happened. So many times this is left out of the story and it’s so crucial it really infuriates me. Is it lazy reporting or deliberate?

You said it all. And Britney's timeline is already so confusing cause we don't know all the details...

[Onyxgirl17]

This is dark…. :(

[glitterfalls]

We're definitely in the same boat thinking she's still alive because of her kids.

And I must say I'm glad he mentioned that Britney was asking about how much things costs. That sounds like something a responsible adult would do instead of hand waving and saying "Who cares how much it costs! Let's have some fun!" 

[land]

So basically he is accusing Larry Rudolph & co of conspiring with her father to drug her, take everything from her and overwork her in a moment she was fragile / vulnerable going through a divorce and having two babies she had recently gave birth to and her body / shape not being prepared for that (2006), which eventually led her to lose control and shave her head and all that stuff (she was still under Larry's management at the time). 

IMO it makes sense because: 1) Soon after she shaved her head and went to rehab she was furious with Larry and fired him and distanced herself from her family accusing her mother and father of many things, she even posted letters on her website at the time of how she felt betrayed by her family

2) Soon after the conservatorship was established Larry was reinstituted as her manager, which indicates his previous connections to Jamie

Always seemed suspicious for me those claims that "Sam Lutfi drugged and took everything from her!!!" from her mom... her friend Jackie that is used as a witness in her book and now became a whistleblower against the c-ship suggested that although she didn't like Lutfi none of that is true to The New Yorker and then they raise the question "Did Lynne make that up to incriminate Lutfi and push him away with a restraining order? Or did she change the characters to blame Lutfi for what other people ie Larry and Jamie were doing to her?" I think by Britney's recent statements and now this former pre-2007 friend declarations it's more and more clear Larry and Jamie were always the ones drugging and taking things from her.

I just hope after this c-ship is over she changes her entire medical team and gets new opinions on her mental health and medications cause I think they're still trying to control her and push her to work through drugs.