Britney doesn’t just need rehab. She needs it to be public to make a splash and revitalize her career, and maybe convince the public and the judge that she’s fit to be a mother.
It’s a deal between two business people to make them both more money.
Her career is fine, Jive Records is stage-managing the marketing for her Blackout album like a charm, considering they have a completely uncooperative star who is incapable of doing even basic PR for the disc.
Hell, I think she probably spent 2 or 3 hours recording the vocals for the disc. With autotune technology, all they need her to do is speak the lyric out loud into a mic once and they can tweak it into sounding like whatever they want it to sound like.
She’s friggin’ crazy, truly crazy, either bipolar or schizophrenic, with the multiple drug addictions that these people develop when they try to self-medicate. That our media has no problem putting the meltdown of a mentally ill drug addict on 24/7 coverage ... it’s sick.
... and we lap it up.