US Weekly: Britney’s battle with Bipolar disorder

Posted on 09 February 2008 by tammy

US Weekly: Britney’s battle with Bipolar disorder

In this weeks issue of USmagazine, the notoriously evil, Sam Lutfi, opens up to the magazine about how he used to medicate the singer, about her bipolar disorder, what happened the second time she was hospitalized, and her parents reaction.

“In the depressive episodes, it’s all crying,” Lutfi tells Us. “But in the manic episode, there’s very little crying or sympathy or compassion. She becomes another person. She becomes somebody that just doesn’t care about anybody or anything.”

“The British accent is part of the mania,” he adds. “She’ll stick to the British accent because she becomes comfortable with it… But you know, when the pink wig comes on, it’s getting bad.”

According to Lutfi, when Britney was admitted to UCLA Medical Center the second time on January 31, she was having a fight with her a parents and yelled, “Well, he is better family than you guys will ever be.”

Lutfi tells Usthat he gave Britney “a handful of pills” before her parents arrived. “I said these pills are working wonders, they are miracle pills,” he recalls. Spears, Lutfi says, agreed that the meds were helping her sleep.

(In their restraining order against Lutfi filed yesterday, Spears’ parents accuse him of drugging their daughter and being verbally abusive. Jamie, who has been named as his daughter’s conservator, “is doing what he has to do to save Britney,” a source tells Us.)

Spears is one of nearly six million American adults suffering from bipolar disorder, a mental illness consisting of extreme shifts in mood, thought, energy, and behavior patterns.

When the ambulance arrived to take Spears, “she was very quiet,” Lutfi tells Us.

“When I told her, she wrote me a note and put a big heart on it and it said, ‘I love you, Sam. Are there people coming? Circle yes or no,’” Lutfi recalls. “Oh, my God, it was funny, just the cutest little thing. I circled yes and I gave it back to her, and she looked at me and she’s like, ‘Oh, lord, here we go again.”

Attorneys are fighting on Spears’ behalf to take conservatorship away from Jamie. Having Jamie in control of her estate and medical decisions is a worst-case scenario for Spears, sources tell Us.



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