Drugs left Britney talking about ‘parallel universes’, guard says
A bodyguard who worked for Britney Spears has revealed what the singer was like after she was given her weekly antipsychotic medication.
Britney Spears was given powerful prescription drugs weekly during at least one point in her conservatorship, leaving her babbling about “parallel universes”, an ex-bodyguard says.
Fernando Flores, a former police officer who helped provide security for the 39-year-old fallen superstar in 2010, told The Sun in a new interview that a woman would arrive at Spears’ home every Friday with the medication while he was on the job.
“I’d explain [to Spears] what everything was – three antipsychotic medications and birth control pills,’’ Mr Flores said.
“She’d go from sane to talking about parallel universes.”
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Spears was put under a conservatorship, otherwise known as a legal guardianship, in 2008 after a mental breakdown – and is now locked in a US court battle to gain her freedom from it.
Under the restrictive set-up, her father Jamie Spears and a court-appointed personal guardian control decisions about her wellbeing and finances.
Mr Flores said that during the several months he worked the Spears security gig, the singer’s phone was monitored, visitors had their bags searched and she would sob as her father ordered her around.
“Jamie would call three or four times a day to check what was going on,’’ Mr Flores said.
As for Britney, “she spent her days watching TV, or working out,’’ he said. “When down, she’d cry listening to [James Brown’s] It’s A Man’s World.”
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Mr Flores made headlines in 2011 when he sued the Toxic singer’s estate for $US10 million, claiming she sexually harassed him, did drugs, and was basically disgusting.
“She broke wind or picked her nose unselfconsciously and unapologetically before [Flores] and others and she was constantly and gratuitously loud and profane in her speech,” the document alleged.
“She did not bathe for days on end, did not use deodorant, did not brush her teeth, did not fix her hair, did not wear shoes or socks.”
A source tied to the singer called Mr Flores “a liar” at the time.
The case was later settled, RadarOnline reported.
On Monday, a few hours from her next court battle against her conservatorship in Los Angeles court, Britney posted a photo on Instagram of a young woman on a floor mat with her legs spread – and the caption, “MY YOGA POSE WILL NOT MAKE ME FART.”
“OK … so I got a lot off my chest last week,” Britney wrote. This came after Wednesday when she sobbed to the judge overseeing her conservatorship case that the arrangement was “abusive” and her father should be charged.
“I said what I needed to say … and life goes on,” she said. “Where’s my yoga mat now?”
This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission