Britney Spears was charged Thursday with driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said. American media report this.
Officers saw the pop star driving fast and erratically on a road near her home in California in early March. For that violation she was arrested.
The 44-year-old singer, known for songs such as Baby One More Time and Oops!…I Did It Again was released a day later and showed up in mid-April voluntarily enter a drug rehabilitation clinic. According to the American newspaper The Los Angeles Times she herself had decided to seek help.
The indictment did not specify what type of drugs prosecutors say Spears used. A justice spokesperson declined to provide details.
Spears is scheduled to appear in court in Ventury County on Monday, May 4. In a press release, authorities said that the singer is not required to attend the hearing because she is only charged with one misdemeanor.
Recidivism
It is not the first time that the singer has come into contact with the law. In 2007, the Mississippi-born singer avoided criminal charges for hit-and-run after an accident. Photographers captured Spears crashing her car into another vehicle as she tried to park in a California parking lot, then walking away after inspecting the damage to her own car. She eventually paid for the damage.
Spears, an indispensable part of the music world in the 2000s, looks at her biography, published in 2023 The Woman In Me back on her eventful life. “I loved drinking, but I never lost control,” she writes, also admitting that she used the drug Adderall, which is prescribed for the treatment of attention disorders and which belongs to the amphetamines product group.
