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Tattle | Britney, pre-rehab: The final hours

SNOOPERS: SPEARS SPENT HAIR-RAISING TIME BOOZING, SHAVING, TRYING TO BORROW BIKINI

IT'S NOT quite the academic track Tattle suggested yesterday, but at least

Britney Spears

is doing something:

Rehab.

What kind of rehab is unclear - Booze? Drugs? Parenting? Bad music? - but TMZ.com reports she's checked into the Promises treatment center in Malibu, a fairly hardcore in-patient facility (shared rooms, etc.), which will not serve as merely a resting place until her hair grows back.

In an interview on "Extra," Promises founder Richard Rogg said that when patients check in there, they're in a pretty bad state.

"You have to hit a mental, emotional, spiritual kind of bottom," he said. "It's that place where you are too afraid to go on living and too afraid to die."

A typical stay at Promises is 45 days, but they also do out-patient work. (Mel Gibson rehabbed at Promises.)

Spears' manager, Larry Rudolph, told People magazine that Britney, 25, had voluntarily checked herself in. Then, in a statement to the media, he asked the media to "respect her privacy as well as those of her family and friends at this time."

* As best Tattle can compile

from various reports from people whose job it is to tail Britney, this is how she spent her last day of freedom:

Sunday morning, according to the New York Post's Page Six, she sunbathed at the Sky Bar at L.A.'s Mondrian Hotel, being extra careful to not burn the now-bare top of her head.

Even though it was only 10 a.m., the Page Six spy said Britney had ordered pitchers of mojitos as they're not just for breakfast anymore. She also wanted the music louder.

Lounging at the pool, Britney wore cowboy boots (always an excellent look with a bikini), a Band-Aid over her new tattoo and an electric-blue wig.

She soon changed that to a dollar-store blond wig.

One should always travel with more than one wig.

When Britney decided she didn't like the bikini she was wearing, she asked to borrow one from another someone seeking a morning tan.

We believe she was turned down. Like dental floss, a thong is not for sharing.

At some point during Britney's sun session by the pool, she is reported to have shaved her legs.

Very classy.

She left about 1:30 p.m.

According to London's Daily Mail, since she was chillin' at the Mondrian, Britney tried to get a room there but had no money and no plastic. She did, however, have a piece of paper bearing a few of her credit-card digits, but that wasn't good enough to land a room.

Even for a disheveled Britney Spears.

"She was crying and apparently intoxicated. She kept saying: 'Nobody wants me anymore,' " the Daily Mail reported.

The New York Daily News filled in the next few hours, reporting that Britney had dinner with her father, Jamie, at Stevie's Creole Cafe in Encino. They ate gumbo.

"Britney and her dad ate in a private VIP section," an anonymous restaurant staffer said. "She was wearing a blond wig and a black hat. She was in such an intense conversation with her dad that no one wanted to bother her."

Given yesterday's events, wonder what they were talking about?

After another few hours, Britney reportedly showed up at the Rainbow Bar & Grill in West Hollywood, for a late-night bite.

From there, New York Post/Daily Mail reports say Britney, in the blond wig, partied at the Roxy and Polo Lounge, leaving when the DJ played " . . . Baby One More Time," seemingly in her honor.

The New York Daily News, however, reported that a non-partying Britney sat alone - no bodyguards or hangers-on - in a Roxy booth, while approximately 80 people celebrated a stranger's birthday with karaoke.

In the Daily News version, it was a party guest who requested " . . . Baby One More Time," unaware Britney was even within singing distance.

X17online.com reports that at the Roxy, Brit drank beer and possibly Jack Daniel's and Coke. She left the Roxy about 1 a.m. with a brunette "friend." They headed over to the Beverly Hills Hotel, but that hotel's more discreet staffers would not say what, if anything, the pair did there.

* Meanwhile, Esther's Haircutting Studio, where Britney shaved her head, set up a Web site to auction off her hair and other items.

Minimum price? One million dollars.

"This is it, the opportunity of a lifetime," according to BuyBritneysHair.com. The winning bidder gets Spears' dark, knotty hair extensions, the clipper she used to cut them off, the Red Bull she drank at the salon and her cigarette lighter.

For a million bucks?

For a million bucks they should throw in the salon. And Britney.

* As for Britney's fellow party-hoppers, they sure are there for her in her time of despair.

Page Six reports that at Paris Hilton's 26th birthday party in Las Vegas this weekend, a Paris "pal" said, "Britney was the butt of everyone's joke. All the girls kept saying how fugly she looked as a baldie."

* Lastly, Britain's OK! magazine reported that Britney wants to sell the $7.2 million Beverly Hills mansion she just purchased because her older son likes her Malibu house better.

"It has more land and huge garden," a source told OK! "It's a better environment for Britney to raise the boys."

Oh, yeah, the boys. *

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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