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Rehab Update: Dad Urged Britney to Seek Help
Tuesday February 20, 2007


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Usmagazine.com has learned that Britney Spears checked herself into an in-patient rehab facility in L.A. on Tuesday after her father pleaded with her to get help.

"Britney Spears has voluntarily checked herself into an undisclosed rehab facility today," the singer's manager Larry Rudolph confirms.

"We ask that the media respect her privacy as well as those of her family and friends at this time."

Though the name of Spears' treatment center has not been released, a source tells i she has been seen walking the grounds and smoking cigarettes outside Promises Treatment Center in Malibu, California.

The decision to enter rehab comes only days after the singer's weekend meltdown. On Friday night, she spontaneously dropped into Esther's Haircutting Studio in L.A.'s Tarzana area and shaved her own head.

She then popped into Body & Soul Tattoo parlor in Sherman Oaks, where she got inked with a pink, black and white cross on her hip and pink and red lips on her wrist.

Spears' relationship with her mother, Lynne Spears, has been strained for months over her rampant partying, says a source. "Her mom cries and begs Britney to calm down, but Britney just yells at her and tells her to mind her own business," a source told Us shortly before the singer checked into rehab. "Lynne was at a breaking point."

Over an early dinner at Stevie's Creole Cafe in Encino on Sunday, Spears' father, Jamie Spears, pleaded with his daughter (who was wearing a blonde wig) to enter treatment, according to a friend of the family.

"Jamie just told Britney how much he loves her and that he wants her to get help," says the source. "He told her that he's afraid for her safety and that she needs to take a look at her life and make some major changes or everything is going to get worse. Britney listened to her father and nodded, but was very serious."

After the intense meeting, Britney and her father walked out of the restaurant together at around 5:30 p.m.

According to the source, the death of the singer's aunt, Sandra Covington, last month may have pushed Spears over the edge. "She was already in a bad place and to lose a favorite family member compounded all the other tragedies and difficulties in her life -- it only added to her downward spiral."

This isn’t the first time Spears has entered a treatment center. On February 15, the 25-year-old mother of two checked into Antigua’s Crossroads Centre, a rehab facility founded by musician Eric Clapton, but checked out the following day.

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