Britney Spears Released From Hospital After Chat With Dr. Phil

"Boyfriend" Update
The British press reports that Britney's paparazzo boyfriend Adnan Ghalib (who is British and married) is trying to sell intimate photos he's taken of the troubled pop star since her release from the hospital. Price? Over $1 million.

Britney Spears's new boyfriend - a Birmingham-born paparazzi photographer - has been touting around intimate pictures taken of them together in recent days with a staggering 500,000 pound price tag

The Los Angeles-based photo agency that Adnam Ghalib works for, Finalpixx, was yesterday trying to broker a deal with UK newspapers for use of pictures of Mr Ghalib and Miss Spears together.

The images were taken after Spears managed to check herself out of a secure unit at an LA hospital

Dr. Phil Update
Dr Phil has canceled his planned all-Britney show on Monday and neither of her parents will be appearing with him:

In a statement posted Monday on his Web site, McGraw said the 26-year-old pop star's situation was "too intense" for him to go forward with the show. He didn't say whether he planned to reschedule.

Britney Update:
Britney and photographer Adnan Ghalib were videotaped in Santa Barbara together over the weekend. A pantless Britney is seen sucking a lollipop and smoking on a hotel balcony with Ghalib.

Update: Britney Drinks Again

Hours after her release from Cedars-Sinai and a talk to Dr. Phil (below), Britney Spears showed up in the desert drinking champagne with a paparazzi she has befriended, Adnan Ghalib.

According to a report in Norm Clarke's Vegas Confidential column, the pop singer, 26 and Ghalib, 35, shared an hour-long breakfast at 11 a.m. this morning. Spears was seen "celebrating her [hospital] release with a mimosa champagne" cocktail during the meal, and even "went to the restroom with her champagne flute while [Ghalib] stood outside the door," Clarke writes.

X17online.com says the couple is currently holed up together at Shutters Hotel in Santa Monica, California.

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Television's "Dr. Phil" McGraw said Britney Spears was released from a hospital Saturday but still needs psychological help, the syndicated programs "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider" reported in a press release.

The troubled pop star was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center by paramedics Thursday night after police were called to her home because of a dispute involving the two sons she had with ex-husband Kevin Federline.

"My meeting with Britney and some family members this morning in her room at Cedars leaves me convinced more than ever that she is in dire need of both medical and psychological intervention," McGraw told the programs.

"She was released moments before my arrival and was packing when I entered the room. We visited for about an hour before I walked with her to her car. I am very concerned for her," he said.

McGraw planned to talk more about Spears on his daytime talk show this week, the press release said.

Responding to an e-mail request for further comment from McGraw, a "Dr. Phil" publicist referred The Associated Press to his statement posted on the etonline.com Web site.

Medical center officials have had no comment on Spears, and authorities have given no full explanation of why she was hospitalized.

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Update:
TMZ reports Dr. Phil blindsided Britney at the hospital, and contrary to his press release, only talked to her for 15 minutes:

People on the 7th floor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center say the Doctor arrived at about 7:30 AM Saturday. We're told Britney did not invite him in; she didn't even know he was coming. Sources say it was Brit's parents who told Dr. Phil to go to the hospital. When he walked into her room, we're told, a blindsided Britney walked out -- and eventually came back.

Sources say Phil tried speaking with Spears for about 15 minutes -- not an hour as Dr. Phil's press release states --but she wanted none of it. We're told Phil was doing almost all the talking. As for walking with her to the car on her way out -- again as his release states -- we're told, if he was walking behind her, that's news to her. She absolutely was not accompanied by him.

She left via underground tunnel

Read about Britney's custody stand-off, hospital trip strapped to a gurney, her sobbing mother and more

See the first video of Britney after her release, from HollywoodTV:

Comments

[nirak]

2please,
Britney is hardly a child for heavens sake.
She is 26 year old and no mother can make her do anything she doesn't want to do.
Britney is a MOM of two little kids and should think of them a little and not just herself.

[2please]

Maybe her case is like Frances Farmer. Everybody thinks she's a loon, but it's the people around her that make her look crazy.

If I had to hand over my kids to a "bodyguard" of my ex-husband's--I might act weird and lock my self in the bathroom too.

Her mom kinda reminds me of Frances Farmer's too. Crappy mom who wants her daughter to "be a star!" no matter how fragile the child's psyche is in 'trying to please' mom and everyone on the payroll.

[RedWhiteandBrooklyn]

"Now, Britney, honey... you just got to understand: two coonhounds fighting over a hambone under a cottonwood in July don't add up to a handful of nickels at a train station... y'know what I'm saying?"

My God! Listening to Dr. Phil talk for ten minutes and even I would start taking drugs! Please, somebody keep him away from her! She's confused enough as it is!

[samuraijack]

Hey Brit, you're hot when you're medicated. I bet you never heard that before.

[1rewd1]

Dr.Phil is to psychology­/psychiatr­y as Britney is to music ... Lord help us all.

[Foohog]

Now the media will continue to lather attention on these abject morons.

yay

[avicenna]

This guy is like a vulture - except feasting on dead meat, he feasts on celebrated crash cases. Who can help dear Dr. Phil for his unquenchable thirst for exploitation? It would be a worthy hour show if we can find him help from this unhealthy obsession. I saw this one coming as soon as he started publicly defending Lynn Spears on her parenting skills after the media was getting its cliched kicks out of her potential "Christian parenting" how-to book. They both have no problem with using young lost souls for self-gain.

[ljsfolly]

Now we should really pray for her. His idea of therapy is not anywhere near what a psych doc would do with her. She needs inpatient therapy and the way she's going the death of another is not far down the road. Bipolars are very self injurious when they are depressed and out of control she has done/will do dangerous things without thought of what the outcome will be. Either way she has some some need for help no one around her has the desire to help her get. The rich and famous have the hanger ons who are not the least bit caring except for what they will not get if the talent gets healthy. Her sister will now get all of the attention and that is a blow to the ego. The loss of her children after this incident will probably continue until she gets what help she needs. Dr Phil is a sucker fish who feeds on other people and their problems not to help them but to promote him.

[hjo4]

He's disgusting­.Phillip McGraw have no shame.You'­ve just reached a new low.No wonder Oprah doesn't speak with you any longer. What a shameless man.

[TAC]

Is this the usual sloppy HuffPo headline writing or deliberately misleading?

Headline: Britney Spears Released From Hospital After Chat With Dr. Phil

Article: "She was released moments before my arrival and was packing when I entered the room."

I clicked on this article not because of my zero interest in Spears, other than the safety of her children, but my distaste of charlatan "Dr." Phil. Very inaccurate.

[CintiBlue]

Don't forget his positive addition to the Natalie Holloway mystery.

[Sovrana]

How is this man allowed in to see her?
Doesn't Cedars-Sinai have a medical ethics board?

[peacebypiece]

That's Entertainment!!!

[OxyCon]

Yeah, Dr. Phil cares about Britney so much that he immediately used her personal problems as another way to get himself more media attention, and as another way to jack up his television ratings.

[konchster]

Dr. Phil " I cured Britney after only one chat" This will undoubtedly cause him to be heralded throughout the kingdom. Britney gets to remain delusional