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Britney Spears Is Not Crazy, She Just Can’t Speak In Public

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Posted by Emily Exton on 05/12/2011 at 5:53 PM News

Sam Lutfi, the creepy former manager and alleged “master manipulator” of Britney Spears, has a motion with a Los Angeles court to order the psychiatric evaluation of the 29-year-old, Billboard reports. The evaluation would prove whether or not Spear is capable of testifying in the defamation lawsuit Lutfi filed against her mother Lynne, following the longstanding battle by Spears’ parents to protect their daughter from her former manager. The Spears family claimed Lutfi was responsible for Britney’s erratic behavior in 2008, and Lynne chronicled the ordeal in her memoir Through the Storm, writing that he secretly drugged her and cut off all outside communication. According to Britney’s parents, she is currently mentally incapable of testifying in a court of law.

Because of Spears’ recent promotional appearances in support of new album Femme Fatale, not to mention her highly publicized upcoming tour with Nicki Minaj, Lutfi believes she is in fine condition to speak publicly—as evidenced by displayed logical thinking and mental competency—and free from the tight grip of her parental handlers. He went so far as to have UCLA Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Joshua Pretsky analyze Spears’ behavior from a recent interview with Ryan Seacrest. Pretsky’s findings:

“In the Ryan Seacrest interview, which was recorded approximately two months ago, Britney Spears is interviewed at length, and she responds logically and coherently to questions, evidencing logical thinking and mental competency. The edited interviews in the [MTV] video documentary also evidence coherent and logical thinking, responsiveness to questions, and mental competence … In my opinion, there is good cause to conduct an Independent Medical Examination to investigate the Conservators’ claim that Ms. Spears is not mentally capable of testifying, and the claim that she was not mentally competent to enter into a binding contract. …

Granted she can’t dance like she used to, but she appears to be happy and healthy (or at least heavily medicated), so what are mom and dad so afraid of? And how do they expect to justify that she’s not in the right mindset to speak in a court of law, but performing (well, “performing”) in front of thousands of people is totally harmless? Making things more complicated, if Spears is found fit to speak on her own, the court will likely revaluate her father and family lawyer’s current conservatorship over her. The plot thickens.

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