Spears appeared to be conscious as she was rolled out of her Studio City home on a gurney about three hours after police and ambulances arrived there.

Pop star Britney Spears was taken to hospital for tests to see if she was under the influence of alcohol or drugs and for a psychological evaluation after police were called to her home Thursday night to mediate a custody dispute, a police spokesman said. and this is the point at which all hell broke loose as Britney was hauled away to the hospital after it was determined that she was 'under the influence of an unknown substance': Then at about 8pm PT, Britney was supposed to hand over custody of her sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James, to their father and she refused to do so. After only about 13 minutes of actual deposing, after time ran out, Britney was excused and that was the end of that. Earlier in the day Britney finally showed up to be deposed by K-Fed's attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, albeit almost 2 hours late.

Here is a short recap of the major events that went down yesterday. Last night, at approximately 8pm PT, Britney Spears started a chain-reaction of events that whipped up a scene of mayhem, confusion and, almost literally, insanity. I wish I could say I was shocked to hear this news. In short, what began as a custody dispute (when Britney Spears failed to hand over custody of her sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline at the appointed time) turned into a 3-alarm medical situation where helicopters lit up the night sky as Britney was strapped to a gurney, loaded into the back of an ambulance and was carted off to Cedars Sinai Hospital to undergo a psychological evaluation. thankfully, the situation isn't as bad as my worst fears (thank ye Gods she is still alive) but it's pretty close to as bad as I feared. The news I feared I would eventually wake up to was what I actually woke up to this morning.

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