BRITNEY SPEARS HAS ANOTHER BREAKDOWN

Britney Spears's friends announced that she was seeking psychological treatment, but hold on, not so fast the pop star was in the midst of yet another public breakdown.

The scene began Monday evening, Britney Spears and her confidante Sam Lutfi went for a short drive around Beverly Hills. When they returned to her Summit home at around 6 p.m., the visibly distraught singer – who appeared to be fighting with Lutfi – jumped out of the white Mercedes near the guard gate.

Spears, clutching her Yorkie puppy whom she call's London, wandered around with tears in her eyes and, at one point, sat down on the curb. "She looked completely lost," says those on the scene. Throughout it all, the gathered paparazzi snapped away.

Wearing brown high heels, cutoff shorts and a plaid fedora, Spears then seemed to downplay the incident, saying, "I'm fine. I'm . . . having a nice time with my dog." (She later hopped into a car with another photographer, Filipe Teixeira, who gave her a lift to Ralph's supermarket in Studio City, before bringing her home. He and another photographer pal were then invited inside, where they spent the remainder of the night.)

About thirty minutes later, the scene became even more surreal when Spears's paparazzi pal Adnan Ghalib – who'd been noticeably absent in recent days – showed up at the house. But the photographer was turned away at the gate and not allowed to get close to Britney.

Adnan Ghalib who recently dished on his relationship in a two-part interview on Entertainment Tonight and The Insider – proceeded to show his fellow photographers a series of text messages, allegedly from Lutfi, the sender calls Ghalib a "manic trigger" for Spears and adds ominously that any further contact between the two "will kill her."

Police cars pulled up to the house soon afterward, responding to a call from security at Spears's gated community. "Spears drove through the gates and paparazzi followed her car on foot," said LAPD Officer Mike Lopez. "By the time officers arrived, the paparazzi were off the property, but officers handed out citations for those who were illegally parked."


But Britney's crazy night was far from over. Her father Jamie and mother Lynne – who recently flew into L.A. from Kentwood, La., where she'd been holed up with Spears's pregnant sister, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn – arrived at the estate around 9 p.m. (Earlier in the day, Lynne had spent time visiting Britney's kids – Preston, 2, and Jayden, 1 – at Kevin Federline's house in Tarzana.)

The family reunion didn't last long, however – as Spears, clutching a bag, bolted from the mansion. She hopped into a car with Ghalib and the two sped off.

Once again Britney got a flat tire, the two pulled into a Chevron to pump air into the deflated tire, then returned to the Summit house – where mom Lynne, and the two photographers, still waited – at around 11 p.m. (Ghalib left soon afterward.)

Then Britney and her mom soon surfaced at around 1:30 a.m., with Lynne driving Spears to Longs Drugs in Studio City. Where her night soon ended.