The Sun Online Says:
(Snap happy ... Brit paparazzi Adnan Ghalib holds Britney's hand last month)
BRITNEY SPEARS was last night being comforted by the man she regards as her ONLY true friend — a paparazzi snapper from Birmingham.
The troubled superstar was in hiding with ADNAN GHALIB and THREE of his fellow photographers after fleeing the hospital she was taken to on Friday strapped to a stretcher.
(Flash mob ... photographer Adnan, circled, and other paparazzi swarm around Britney’s car on a previous outing in LA)
Britney, 26 — who ripped an IV drip from her arm and refused further treatment — bizarrely told loved ones the paparazzi are now the only people she trusts.
She said of new love Ghalib, whose Brummie dad used to run a clothing business: “He’s my only friend in the world.”
(Wild-eyed ... Britney drug
drama on Friday)Last night she was holed up with her “chums” in a rented Hollywood mansion.
Family and friends begged Britney — whose latest single Piece Of Me went up from 46 to 19 in yesterday’s UK chart — to seek medical help amid renewed fears for her mental state.
(Despair ... Mum Lynne at sister’s grave)
A source close to a long-time pal said: “Britney is on the edge. It’s worrying — and ironic — that the only person she feels she can turn to is a paparazzo.
“It’s like the lamb going to stay with the wolfpack. Britney knows Adnan because he has followed her relentlessly for months.
“Her family are astonished a photographer is the person Britney turns to when she needs to step out of the media storm. She seems to think he’s her only friend in the world.
“They fear she has lost her grip on reality so much that she feels her only friends are the paparazzi.”
Britney’s dad Jamie was said to be “frantic with worry”. On Friday, a berserk Britney was at the centre of a three-hour stand-off with cops after her children SEAN PRESTON, two, and JAYDEN JAMES, one, spent New Year at her Los Angeles mansion.
She refused to hand them back to estranged husband KEVIN FEDERLINE, 29, and was so hysterical she had to be bound to a stretcher.
The Sun revealed she had become hooked on a lethal cocktail of drugs — including one designed to make racehorses leaner. Hours later the star checked out of a psychiatric ward at LA’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after another tantrum.
(Snapper ... Adnan on duty)
She told staff she was off to another clinic — but joined Ghalib, 35. Britney took a shine to him in December. He was with the star and her kids over the New Year — but left before her meltdown.
In an interview on US telly, Ghalib, who is married but separated, told how he had made a mint out of Britney — declaring: “Maybe the only friends she’s going to have that treat her with the respect she deserves are going to be the photographers that work her 24 hours a day.”
Britney has shunned help from her family. Hours after the star was taken to hospital, distraught mum LYNNE sought refuge in a cemetery.
Lynne was seen wiping away tears at the grave of her sister Sandra, 59 — who died a year ago of breast cancer.
