Britney Spears charged with DUI after arrest last month in Southern California - BERITAJA

Pop prima Britney Spears has been charged successful Southern California pinch driving nether the influence, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday.

Spears, 44, was arrested successful March connected suspicion of driving nether the influence. In April, she voluntarily checked herself into a curen facility aft respective group adjacent to her encouraged her to do so, a root acquainted pinch the business previously told Beritaja.

A spokesperson for Spears did not instantly respond to a petition for remark Thursday.

A tribunal proceeding for the prima has been group for Monday, according to the territory attorney's office.

“Whether aliases not Ms. Spears will look astatine the proceeding will beryllium a determination made betwixt her and her attorney,” the Ventura County District Attorney's agency said successful a statement. “Since it is simply a misdemeanor charge, she is not required to attend, and her lawyer could make the quality for her.”

With DUI cases, the DA's agency said, if location was a debased humor intoxicant level and nary clang aliases injury, defendants often scope a resolution, "particularly erstwhile a suspect demonstrates self-motivation to reside underlying issues done rehabilitation aliases a supplier and intoxicant curen program."

"Under that offer, a suspect is placed connected probation for 12 months, receives in installments for immoderate clip spent successful custody, is required to complete a DUI class, and must salary state-mandated fines and fees," the DA said successful a statement, noting that the "DUI lawsuit will beryllium handled according to our modular protocols."

After the March arrest, a typical for Spears described the incident arsenic “completely inexcusable” and said, “hopefully, this could beryllium the first measurement successful agelong overdue alteration that needs to hap successful Britney’s life.”

The DA did not specify what Spears was alleged to beryllium nether the power of.

Spears, known arsenic the “Princess of Pop,” was freed from her conservatorship successful 2021, ending the 13-year statement that legally stripped her of the authority to make individual and financial decisions.

In the years since, galore of her followers person expressed interest complete her intelligence health, citing her societal media posts. Many of her Instagram updates show her dancing unsocial successful her home. One featured her dancing pinch knives that she later said were not real.

Her about caller post, shared successful April connected Instagram, is simply a video that appears to show personification putting their fingers successful a water-filled vessel of pinkish flowers. She also posted a video of herself dancing to Cardi B.