After the worst week of her life, pop singer Britney Spears is slowly trying to rehab herself in order to get her children back.
A Los Angeles judge ruled Wednesday that Kevin Federline will retain custody of his two boys with Spears but said the troubled singer can have supervised visitation rights.
The decision was actually a step forward for Spears, who was ordered Monday to hand over her children, Sean Preston and Jayden James, because she had failed to undergo random drug testing, counseling, and parenting classes.
Spears decided to give up her children immediately and then work her way through the judge’s list of requirements, including getting a California driver’s license Tuesday. OK! Magazine reported that Spears was headed this weekend to Antigua to once again check herself into Eric Clapton’s Crossroads rehab center, where she once spent a single hour before leaving.
“Britney’s team has been working closely with her attorneys to figure out a way to get the babies back from Kevin,” a pal of the singer tells OK! “She is surrendering herself to rehab for treatment of depression and alcohol so that there is no questioning if she is drinking or missing any future tests.”
Legal experts told MTV News that the most Spears could hope for in Wednesday’s hearing would be visitation rights, since it “will be a slow process before she and Federline can share 50/50 custody again.” New York divorce lawyer Lois Liberman told MTV that it would take at least three months of clean drug-testing before the court would consider allowing Spears unsupervised visits with her children.
“The court is going to err on the side of caution now,” Liberman said. “It will be a gradual opening of the floodgates. But the court’s goal is to reunite the family in some fashion.”
Meanwhile, Spears is headed to the top of the music charts despite, or perhaps because of, the negative publicity surrounding her personal life. Her new album is scheduled for release in November, but her single “Gimme More” is getting airplay on Top-40 stations, where it’s been one of the top-15 performing songs, the L.A. Times reported.
The song also landed in the No. 1 position on Billboard’s Hot Digital Songs chart, having sold 179,000 downloads in its first week of release and jumping to No. 3 — her best showing on the Billboard chart since her breakthrough, “Baby One More Time,” hit No. 1 in January 1999, the newspaper said.
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