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Spears Gets Treatment, Kid Calls
Britney Spears finally appears to be on the receiving end of both personal and professional help—steps that may help her regain visits and eventually shared custody of her sons.
As word came Monday that Spears has been granted phone calls with her boys, the "Gimme More" star's manager-pal Sam Lutfi confirmed that the troubled singer has begun treatment with a psychiatrist and is back in contact with her estranged mother, Lynne.
Lutfi chose The View den mother Barbara Walters as his vessel for the news.
"I can't vouch for this," Walters qualified Lutfi's information by saying. "He said that Britney is suffering from what he describes as mental issues, which are treatable. He said she has been to a psychiatrist and that she, I assume, is starting some kind of treatment.
"She's been having mood swings, she's been having trouble sleeping, and also she is in touch with her mother—because we had heard she wasn't—and her mother has been very supportive of whatever Britney is going to do."
Sources told E! Online that Lynne was "instrumental" in persuading the 26-year-old to seek treatment. Although their relationship is still icy, Spears women spoke Friday, and Lynne has agreed to "help her through it."
Lynne Spears arrived solo in Los Angeles Sunday night and was photographed talking on a cell phone. The purpose of Lynne's trip, planned weeks ago, was to visit her grandchildren and not to see Britney.
Britney had not spoken to either her mother or father Jamie Spears since her Jan. 3 meltdown. An insider said Britney had chafed at her parents' insistence to begin treatment: "She still isn't convinced she has a mental problem. But she knows this is what she has to do to get her kids again."
Now, however, the Blackout artist is amenable to begin taking medication, should the psychiatrist recommend it. Spears spent about an hour at a Santa Monica psychiatrist's office on Friday.
The source said that Brtiney hasn't been happy for quite some time "and she wants that to change, too."
Spears has not seen her sons, two-year-old Sean Preston and one-year-old Jayden James, since earlier this month, when she refused to return the children to Kevin Federline. A court commissioner subsequently stripped her of all visitation rights.
However, in a ruling last week and made available Monday, Britney has been granted permission to speak with the boys on the phone. (View the court minute order.)
Walters, meanwhile, said on The View Monday that she believed the beleaguered pop star has "moved away" from her relationship with paparazzo Adnan Ghalib. The two have been off and on in recent weeks, and over the weekend, Spears, Lutfi, former assistant Alli Sims and new hanger-on Chad Hardcastle—but not Ghalib—were spotted late Sunday taking in a showing of 27 Dresses in Los Angeles. (Then again, maybe the shutterbug doesn't like chick flicks.)
Sims herself recently spoke out about her feelings toward Ghalib after he shared private voicemails left for him by Spears during long interviews with Entertainment Tonight and The Insider last week.
"He's been around, what, three weeks?" she told People. "I don't really see the point of that...I only know him from him following us around for eight months. I don't personally know him. But I don't like that vibe."
(Originally published Jan. 28, 2008 at 10:57 a.m. PT.)
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