Spears released from hospital, expert says she needs urgent help
Los Angeles (ANTARA News) - Troubled pop star Britney Spears, 26, returned home Saturday after a two-day stay in hospital that followed her refusal to turn over one of her children to her ex-husband's custody.
Spears left the Cedars Sinai Medical Center through an underground tunnel to avoid paparazzi who have laid siege to the building, according to the US broadcast show "Entertainment Tonight."
Beforehand, the singer received a visit from celebrity television therapist Dr Phil McGraw, who said afterwards he believed Spears was in urgent need of medical and psychological treatment.
Spears' physicians have not commented on her condition.
Spears was hospitalized Thursday for physical and psychological evaluation following a tense, three-hour stand-off with police in her luxury Hollywood home. Spears refused to follow court orders and hand over her children, Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, to the custody of her ex-husband Kevin Federline.
After the court-appointed monitor put Sean in the car, Britney locked herself in a room with Jayden, a source close to Spears was quoted by DPA as telling People Magazine.
Police were called to enforce the custody handoff, and after a tense, three-hour standoff inside the house, paramedics carried Spears to an ambulance on a stretcher.
On Friday, a Los Angeles family court commissioner suspended Spear's visitation rights to her children after a hearing on safety concerns for the children.
On Thursday, the law firm representing Spears in the custody battle had quit, saying the pop star was "impossible" to work with.
The legal resignation came after Spears missed another court-ordered deposition with Federline's lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, to undergo cross-examination about her parenting abilities.
Last month she called in sick to a similar meeting just hours after she was caught on camera at a night club.
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