Britney Spears enjoyed her third visit in five days with her two young sons yesterday morning, it has emerged.
The 'Toxic' singer was reunited with Sean Preston, two, and Jayden James, one on Saturday, for the first time since she had her visitation rights revoked following a breakdown at her Beverly Hills home at the beginning of January.
Following a second meet-up with the kids on Monday, Spears and her boys spent more than three hours together on Thursday morning.
A car dropped Sean Preston and Jayden James off at their mother's mansion just before 9am, and the pair were picked up again at midday.
Recent reports had suggested Spears and her lawyers were hoping to get visitation rights up to three times a week.
The singer and her ex-husband Kevin Federline will be back in court for a custody hearing on April 9.
Friday brought some relatively quiet time for Britney Spears, who spent the afternoon shopping in West Hollywood at the boutique of Monique Lhuillier – who designed Spears's wedding dresses – and the Fred Segal and the Betsey Johnson stores. At all three places she appeared to do more browsing than buying as the President's Day weekend was just beginning.
On the domestic front, her family is caring for the pop star. Father Jamie Spears has been granted a co-conservatorship over his daughter's affairs, while brother Bryan is acting a co-trustee of his sister's revocable trust.
(A Los Angeles County Superior Court commissioner placed Spears under a conservatorship at the beginning of this month. Such conservatorships are established when a court determines an individual cannot take care of herself or her affairs.)
Mother Lynne Spears, who departed Los Angeles earlier this week, had been part of the attempted healing process, spending rare quality time with her daughter – cooking for and shopping with her. In terms of the calendar, Saturday marks an unusual anniversary: It's exactly a year since the pop star turned heads by shaving hers.
Britney Spears misses her kids but doesn’t want them back full time, according to the troubled star’s first husband Jason Alexander.
Alexander - who was married to Brit for 55 hours in 2002 – claims that Britney accepts that she’s a crap mom and doesn’t want to take sons Sean Preston and Jayden James back full-time.
He tells U.S. magazine In Touch: "She wants to see them (kids), but she doesn't want to be a full-time mom. She said it doesn't matter if she doesn't get them back full-time, and that she can always have other kids later on."
The singer lost the right to visit her sons in Janaury following a stand-off with police and paramedics when she refused to return her boys to ex-husband Kevin Federline, who has full custody.
Alexander reveals he and his former childhood sweetheart renewed contact over the Christmas period:: "I got a phone call, a voice mail, that said, 'Hey! It's me. I know we haven't spoken in a while.' It was Britney.
"She said she'd call me back, and we've been speaking ever since."
LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears' parents said Wednesday they believe the pop star's life is at risk following her early release from a hospital psychiatric ward over the recommendation of her treating psychiatrist. In a joint statement given to The Associated Press by their attorney, Jamie and Lynne Spears said they were "extremely disappointed" to learn their daughter had been released. "As parents of an adult child in the throes of a mental health crisis, we were extremely disappointed this morning to learn that over the recommendation of her treating psychiatrist, our daughter Britney was released from the hospital that could best care for her and keep her safe," the statement said.
"We are deeply concerned about our daughter's safety and vulnerability and we believe her life is presently at risk. There are conservatorship orders in place created to protect our daughter that are being blatantly disregarded. We ask only that the court's orders be enforced so that a tragedy may be averted." After Spears' release, which came a week earlier than expected, she spent the day dodging paparazzi as she drove around Los Angeles in a black Mercedes-Benz with an unidentified man.
Paparazzi vehicles zoomed around the Mercedes and photographers surrounded the vehicle at each stop. More than 15 people circled the car at one point, shooting still photos and video. Spears' vehicle, however, was observing traffic laws, the helicopter pilot reported. At one point the Mercedes pulled into the Beverly Hills Hotel entrance. Beverly Hills police Sgt. Mark Miner said a "keep the peace" detail was sent to the hotel, a common practice when paparazzi are causing a nuisance.
Spears' release came after a series of legal developments in which her father fought for control of the pop star and her estate, her frequent companion was ordered to stay away from her, and her mother vividly described her daughter's fragile state, drug use and the strange behavior that led to her hospitalization. The troubled singer was hospitalized Jan. 31 and held for a 72-hour evaluation that was originally set to expire Sunday. Her stay was then extended for two weeks, a person close to the pop star told The Associated Press.
The expectation that she would remain hospitalized may explain how she avoided paparazzi on her way out. Until Feb. 14, Spears remains under the conservatorship of her father, an arrangement created when a judge determines a person can no longer care for herself or her personal affairs. James Spears was named her conservator Monday, and he and attorney Andrew Wallet were made co-conservators of the estate. As her conservator, Spears' father has been granted access to all of her medical records and authority to determine where Spears lives and who she sees.
Spears, who is in a child custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline, was also briefly hospitalized earlier in January after police were called to her home when she refused to return her sons to a Federline bodyguard after a visit. That trip to the hospital occurred amid a swarm of paparazzi. Spears has since lost all visitation rights to her sons, 1-year-old Jayden James and 2-year-old Sean Preston.
On Friday, a court issued a restraining order against Sam Lutfi, who's been at Spears' side in recent months after the singer's mother declared that he held her daughter hostage in her own home, drugged her, took over her finances and controlled the paparazzi. Lutfi was ordered to stay away from Spears, her homes and her parents' and siblings' homes. The singer has been in a spiral of increasingly bizarre behavior since November 2006, when she filed for divorce from Federline.
Britney Spears enjoyed her third visit in five days with her two young sons yesterday morning, it has emerged.
