{"id":2427232,"date":"2026-05-21T23:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2427232"},"modified":"2026-05-21T23:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:27:43","slug":"britney-spears-fails-sobriety-test-in-dui-arrest-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/britney-spears-fails-sobriety-test-in-dui-arrest-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears fails sobriety test in DUI arrest video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>New footage shows Britney Spears allegedly failing a sobriety test during her DUI arrest on March 4.<\/p>\n<p>In dashcam footage<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/05\/21\/britney-spears-in-handcuffs-during-dui-arrest-video\/#disqus_thread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> obtained by TMZ<\/a> Thursday, the Grammy winner was seen being questioned by police officers before she was placed in handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p>Spears can be heard asking cops if they had her phone, which they claimed was still in her purse.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Page Six exclusively reported that several drivers <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/21\/celebrity-news\/britney-spears-harrowing-911-dui-calls-revealed-as-drivers-beg-police-to-help-erratic-singer\/\">reported the \u201cToxic\u201d songstress, 44, to police<\/a> when they saw her allegedly driving \u201cerratically\u201d and almost \u201csideswip[ing]\u201d\u00a0several vehicles while in Ventura County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m reporting an erratic driving person,\u201d one person said in a 911 call.<\/p>\n<p>The individual told the dispatch responder the location and told them how a BMW was allegedly moving \u201cin and out of lanes\u201d and \u201cslamming on the brakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Britney Spears was seen allegedly failing a sobriety test during her DUI arrest on March 4, per footage obtained by TMZ. <span class=\"credit\">TMZ<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>A dashcam video showed the hitmaker talking to officers. <span class=\"credit\">TMZ<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt almost sideswiped a couple of vehicles. It\u2019s driving at high speeds. I\u2019m worried they\u2019re going to crash with somebody,\u201d the caller said.<\/p>\n<p>A second caller reported a \u201cpossible drunk driver\u201d in a black BMW, saying how she allegedly \u201calmost sideswiped three or four vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, in a police report obtained by Us Weekly, officers smelled a \u201cdistinct odor of an alcoholic beverage\u201d\u00a0from inside Spears\u2019 car.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>She was then placed in cuffs. <span class=\"credit\">TMZ<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Officers escorted her to the car. <span class=\"credit\">TMZ<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The \u201cGimme More\u201d singer allegedly told an officer that she had one mimosa several hours prior, before bragging about her tolerance level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could probably drink four bottles of wine and take care of you. I\u2019m an angel,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Spears also claimed to have <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/21\/celebrity-news\/britney-spears-listed-drugs-taken-before-dui-arrest-as-she-boasted-she-could-drink-4-bottles-of-wine\/\">taken prescription drugs<\/a>, including the\u00a0mood stabilizer Lamictal and\u00a0anticonvulsant, antidepressant Prozac and Adderall.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Spears (seen here) was arrested on March 4. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/britneyspears<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>At the time, she was driving in Ventura County and several people reported a possible drunk driver in a BMW. Seen here: Spears\u2019 BMW. <span class=\"credit\">Andy Johnstone for Page Six<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c[An officer] located a brown purse that contained a bottle of pills labeled \u2018Adderall,\u2019 which were not prescribed to Spears,\u201d the report read, adding that there was an empty wine glass in the car\u2019s cup holder.<\/p>\n<p>Spears also allegedly told officers that on the sobriety scale from zero to 10, she was a \u201czero.\u201d Additionally, she didn\u2019t want to complete field sobriety tests.<\/p>\n<p>The hitmaker, however, passed several breathalyzer tests.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Spears allegedly admitted to having taken prescription drugs. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/britneyspears<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>An empty wine glass was also allegedly found in her car. Seen here: Spears. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@britneyspears<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following the arrest, Spears <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/12\/celebrity-news\/britney-spears-checks-into-rehab-for-substance-abuse-weeks-after-dui-arrest\/\">checked herself into rehab<\/a>\u00a0in April, with her rep telling Page Six that she was \u201cdedicated to working on her health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her lawyer Michael Goldstein\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/04\/celebrity-news\/britney-spears-pleads-guilty-in-dui-case-days-after-leaving-rehab\/\">accepted a \u201cwet reckless\u201d offer<\/a> on Spears\u2019 behalf on May 4.<\/p>\n<p>Spears received a one-year informal probationary grant and is required to complete a three-month alcohol school totaling 30 hours.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New footage shows Britney Spears allegedly failing a sobriety test during her DUI arrest on March 4. In dashcam footage obtained by TMZ Thursday, the Grammy winner was seen being questioned by police officers before she was placed in handcuffs. Spears can be heard asking cops if they had her phone, which they claimed was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[21966,29953,24003,360563,21800],"class_list":["post-2427232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-britney-spears","tag-celebrity-arrests","tag-celebrity-news","tag-dui","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Britney-Spears-fails-sobriety-test-in-DUI-arrest-video.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2427234,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427232\/revisions\/2427234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}