Britney Spears got arrested Wednesday night. Looks like CHP pulled her over in Moorpark around 9:30 p.m. and booked her on suspicion of DUI just after 3 a.m. Thursday. She was out by 6, cite and release. Court date is May 4 in Ventura County. Oh, Britney.
For the WeHo gays waking up to this news it’s a bummer. Many of us have been rooting for her since her “Free Britney” days. It’s no secret she’s a gay icon and a fixture of the queer community for decades, her music blasting in every bar since the late ’90s. We celebrated when the judge finally ended her conservatorship back in 2021. Hoping it was the beginning of a new era. Sadly, we’ve been watching her spiral ever since, hoping it would stop.
dance videos posted to social media.
(Screenshot via TikTok)
It hasn’t. For a couple of years now Spears has been posting and deleting bizarre videos and messages. She wrote that she dances on Instagram to heal things in her body that “people have no idea about.” In January she posted that she’d never perform in the U.S. again, then took it down. Her Instagram went dark after the arrest.
West Hollywood was practically her second home in the early 2000s. She used to hit tanning salons on Santa Monica Boulevard, strolling the neighborhood, shopping on Melrose. Paparazzi were making serious money off her. One agency estimated Britney photos alone accounted for $3 million in annual sales, roughly a quarter of their total income. The packs of photographers that trailed her through WeHo back then were relentless. It finally came to a head in 2007 when she grabbed an umbrella and went after a photographer’s car outside a Tarzana gas station, an iconic and tragic moment etched into pop culture history.
The past few years haven’t been kind either. Her marriage to Sam Asghari fell apart after fourteen months, divorce finalized in December 2024. She sold her song catalog to Primary Wave shortly after. A stalker who’d been harassing her online since 2013 broke into her property last year and she had to fight for a restraining order in court.
She’s not a kid anymore. She’s 44. Sadly, it seems like her story may never have the happy ending we’ve all been rooting for.
The one thing that gives me hope is that her spokesperson is recognizing the gravity of the ‘completely inexcusable’ situation and saying it is leading to a ‘long overdue’ reckoning and an ‘overdue’ plan of action.
Also good that her Insta is now disabled.
I wish Britney well and truly hope this is a wake-up call for her, and that she accepts the help, offered with love, that she clearly could benefit from.