For years, there were rumors that Britney Spears’ drug misuse and had been a contributing factor to her infamous 2007 behavior. During Sam Lufti’s defamation lawsuit against Spears and her parents, he alleged in court that the pop star had shaved her head in a bid to avoid her hair being used for drug testing. “She liked to use amphetamines, speed or uppers … and most of the things that went wrong were related to that drug,” he said, per New York Post. Meanwhile, her ex, Jason Alexander, claimed to The Sunday Mirror (via CBS News) that Spears’ drug use was frequent and dangerous, stating, “We used ecstasy at night to party and cocaine during the day.”
The issue had been raised in court cases, too. For instance, a judge in her 2007 custody case against Kevin Federline had ordered her to submit to random drug testing, stating (via People), “The court finds that there is a habitual, frequent, and continuous use of controlled substances and alcohol by [Spears].” During a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against the performer by one of her former bodyguards in 2010, she was likewise alleged to have used methamphetamines, per Radar.
While Spears has remained relatively quiet on the matter, she did reveal in a since-deleted Instagram post (via Insider) that she was drug tested three times a week during her conservatorship and was banned from consuming alcohol — even though she can’t stand drinking most alcoholic beverages.
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