Trainwreck celebrity news of the day: Britney Spears gets 5150'ed
Friday, January 4th, 2008 - 2:41pm
What's a 5150, you ask? That's hospital code for a patient that's a danger to themselves or others, which I heard in another report. I can understand why K-Fed didn't go himself; she might have gone apesh*t on his ass.
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I heard about it on the radio. I never really liked her as a performer, but I hope she gets everything together. Her kids are still young enough that if she straightens out soon, they can still have a good perception of their mother.
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I also heard a few days ago that her custody lawyers all quit. Hmm. Wonder why.
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Did the paramedics revive her with an IV of red bull and vodka?
No, Rockstar and Jager.
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But that only works when the patient isn't chewing gum and smoking at the same time. This is Britney Spears we're talking about. Conventional Hollywood medicine wouldn't work.
What I would have suggested was immediate acupuncture, only instead of tiny needles I would have used a long pole and just poked at her while mumbling in cantonese.
I'm intrigued by my utter lack of interest in this story and how I just couldn't leave the thread unread. You wield a mighty power there, in being able to push all kinds of crap on us obsessive compulsive forum goers. Use it wisely.
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Who says it worked?
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Same here. I've kind of turned the corner on the issue of celebrity trainwrecks, I think. Especially with regards to Ms. Spears. When she first burst onto the scene, unlike many other men who thought she was hawt (maybe even some of you), I was repulsed. They were peddling pedophilia and I'm not sure she entirely knew it. It was worse than those pictures of Jon Benet Ramsey to me. And yet this rocketed her to superstardom.
All through her life people have managed her in order to make money off of her. First her parents, then eventually handlers that took marginal talent, a pretty face and "cooked" up a sex symbol that many people bought.
Now that it turns out she's human and kind of a messed up one, people are quick to pile on, laugh, wish her ill. I hope she gets better. She needs help. She needs someone to handle her money so she has some way to subsist while she gets the help she so clearly needs. She's mentally ill. She's completely out of control. And yeah, it's her fault, but she was raised to be put in this position, IMHO. And the people that drooled over her or bought her albums are complicit.
Sorry, I know I'll likely get flamed for not just piling on like everyone else, but I feel bad for her. At one point she was a little girl who had a chance, possibly, to live a semi-normal life. And now it's a giant trainwreck. She needs help. I'm not going to laugh at her. Instead I'm angry at the system that "nurtured" her to this point.
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She ended up having to go to the hospital in an ambulance. In Hollywood hospitals, the conventional treatment never works on the patient. Instead, patients need the care of a star doctor who can develop some weird, off-the-wall, "this will never work" treatment. Preferably, the doctor is hot with big breasts. Or slightly hot and very neurotic. Or handsome but emotionally unavailable. Or slightly neurotic with a limp or other adorable disability.
A decent Van Halen album.
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I agree with what you said, DS. I feel bad for her, seriously you have to feel bad when K-Fed is the better parent of the two.
I have never liked her "music", though.
For the record, I thought she was hot when she bounced onto the scene in her schoolgirl outfit. I was also only 19 or 20 at the time, so I don't feel like I was a pedophile for thinking so.
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It wasn't pedophilia for all of us ... uh ... not that I ever found her attractive.
Phew. Good save.
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Sorry DS, I had to do it. I tried to fight it, but I succumbed.
Anyway, given the number of things you can actually be 5150'd for, I don't find this all that interesting. My guess is she got a bit drunk and threatened to hurt herself. Given the fact that her career has fallen apart, her children were taken away from her, she's a complete joke (not that I'm helping the situation with my picture there), and her husband (who is a complete tool) is seen as the good guy, I can't say I'd blame her much for having a weak moment... assuming I'm at least partially right.
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Dang it! You beat me to it.
That's because you married a celebrity.
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You're a bit late on that mental evaluation thing doc
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you know you got problems when K-Fed is considered the good parent in your relationship.
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I never get tired of hearing that, even after the thousandth time it's been said.
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I feel bad for Britney's kids but at the risk of sounding like a bastard, I feel nothing for her. She's trailer trash that stumbled backwards into manufactured stardom and quickly became a spoiled brat rich bitch who thinks the world owes her. For the sake of her children, I hope she can get her act together or they can be kept away from her but if she crashes and burns, she'll have no one to blame but herself. If she wasn't famous, most people would just as likely spit on her as feel any sympathy.
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Meh, I'd still hit it.
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Oh God she looks like me in that picture... aside from the hair and make-up. And eyebrows.
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That's probably what you'd need to feel anything...
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They should put a few million into a trust fund for the kids and put them up for adoption (keeping the inheritance secret, of course).
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Hmm... I grew up very poor. My parents were on govt. assistance at times. My childhood home is in the same block as a trailer park. I spent the first 2 years of my life in a trailer park as that's where my mom lived at the time. I don't know. This is where I think we can sometimes start to dehumanize people.
Yeah, she's become a joke as a result of her behavior. But at one point she was a child. And she got thrust into stardom by parents and executives that found out they could dress her up, teach her to sing and dance and make lots of money off of her. She probably never had a choice but to take that path. Who knows what she could have become had she not been raised this way/thrust into the spotlight. Perhaps she'd have had a semi-normal life.
I like to reflect on my life before thrashing child stars like Ms. Spears, Lindsey Lohan or Screech. Not that I could have been a star. But I definitely could have become what many consider "trailer trash". That was a possibility, certainly. Thankfully for me, however, I had good parents and I managed to escape the cycle of poverty and help pull my brothers out with me. I don't think she ever had that chance. So I personally would hesitate to call her "trailer trash" and then pile on.
That's just me.
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