This Week In 2007
Feb. 11, 2007 After a night of partying at Tenjune, Britney arrives at Club One in the Meatpacking District with a a couple of friends… where she strips naked and swaps clothes with the club’s dancers.
Feb. 12, 2007 Britney flies from Manhattan to Miami and checks into the Four Seasons with her sons. The hotel staff noticed she seemed “overwhelmed” and even though she’d originally planned to stay a week, “something happened” causing her to leave after a day.
Feb. 13, 2007 Britney’s former personal assistant Felicia Culotta writes a letter to a gossip blog stating: “There’s just so much you can do to help a person… I know that we (as in her family and nearest and dearest - all of whom are not on the payroll anymore) are doing everything in our power to get help for Britney.”
Feb. 14, 2007 Britney flies on a private jet from Miami to Antigua where she checks into rehab at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Centre… and checks out less than 24 hours later.
Feb. 16, 2007 Shortly before 11AM, a frantic Britney is the final passenger to board an American Airlines flight from Miami to LA, where she sits alone in coach. On the verge of tears, Britney tells an agent: “I’ve got to get on this plane to get home to my kids.”
After arriving in LA, Britney visits Esther’s Haircutting Studio in Tarzana. Despite it being closed, the owner opens it up for Britney, who requests to have her head shaved. When the owner refuses, Britney takes an electric shaver and does it herself. When she leaves the salon, paparazzi ask her why she did it - she responds: “Because of you.”
Afterwards, Britney heads to Body & Soul Tattoo in Sherman Oaks where she gets tattoos of a black-white-and-pink cross on her lower hip and red-and-pink lips on her wrist. When an employee asks her why she shaved her head, Britney responds: “I don’t want anyone touching me. I’m tired of everybody touching me.”
Feb. 17, 2007 A distraught Britney attempts to get a room at the Mondrian Hotel with only a scrap of paper with half a credit card number scrawled on it. When denied, she reportedly says: “Nobody wants me anymore.” She’s later seen shaving her legs and drinking by the hotel pool and asks fellow guests to trade bathing suits and pose for pictures with her as if they’re her friends.
Feb. 18, 2007 Britney debuts a blonde wig while attending a birthday party at The Roxy. She leaves shortly after arriving, though, after the DJ starts playing …Baby One More Time, and then heads to the Beverly Hills Hotel Polo Lounge.
Feb. 20, 2007 Britney checks into Promises treatment center in Malibu… and checks out less than a day later.
Feb. 21, 2007 Britney visits a lawyer in LA - the same one who represented Mel Gibson in his 2006 DUI case.
Later that night, Britney visits Kevin Federline’s house in the Valley. After buzzing the intercom three times with no response, an angry Britney stops at a gas station nearby and attacks a photographer’s SUV with an umbrella.
Later that year she apologizes for the incident, claiming it was for a “movie role.”
Feb. 22, 2007 Britney checks into rehab for a third time, spending nearly a month at Promises before checking out in late March.
And Kelly Clarkson’s reaction to all of this:
