Britney Spears charged with driving under influence of alcohol, drugs - BERITAJA

Britney Spears was charged successful California connected Thursday pinch driving nether the power of narcotics and alcohol, authorities said.

The 44-year-old popular prima was charged pinch a azygous misdemeanor count of driving nether the mixed power of intoxicant and astatine slightest 1 drug, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said.

An email sent to a Spears typical seeking remark was not instantly answered.

A criminal title does not specify what benignant of intoxicant aliases drugs, aliases what amount, Spears is accused of having used.

Spears, who has since entered constituent maltreatment treatment, was arrested March 4 aft she was pulled complete for driving her achromatic BMW accelerated and erratically connected U.S. 101 adjacent her home, the California Highway Patrol said. She appeared to beryllium impaired, took a bid of section sobriety tests, was arrested connected suspicion of driving nether the power of a operation of intoxicant and narcotics and was taken to a Ventura County jail, the CHP said.

She was released connected bail the pursuing day. Police completed their investigation and presented it to prosecutors connected March 23.

A typical astatine the clip called Spears’ actions “completely inexcusable” and said it would ideally beryllium “the first measurement successful agelong overdue alteration that needs to hap successful Britney’s life.”

Spears voluntarily checked into a constituent maltreatment curen installation conscionable complete a period aft the arrest, her typical said.

Spears’ arraignment is group for Monday. Because it is simply a misdemeanor charge, she will not beryllium required to look successful court, prosecutors said.

The onetime teen popular arena and “Mickey Mouse Club” alum became a defining superstar of the 1990s and 2000s pinch hits for illustration “Toxic,” “Gimme More” and “I’m a Slave 4 U.” Most of her albums person been certified platinum, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, pinch 2 gem titles: 1999’s “… Baby One More Time” and 2000’s “Oops! … I Did It Again.”

Spears became a attraction of tabloids successful the early 2000s, and a root of nationalist scrutiny, arsenic she battled intelligence unwellness and paparazzi documented the specifications of her backstage life.

In 2008, Spears was placed nether a court-ordered conservatorship, tally chiefly by her begetter and his lawyers, that would power her individual and financial decisions for good complete a decade. It was dissolved successful 2021.

Since then, she has joined and divorced, and released a bestselling, tell-all memoir, “The Woman successful Me.”

She has fundamentally been retired arsenic an creator successful caller years, releasing only a fewer collaborative singles since her past afloat medium successful 2016.