The Breakdown

Britney Spears' hospitalization Friday was the most serious event in a long line of erratic behavior in recent years -- this timeline takes a look back.

Britney Spears abused drugs in 2007 and 2008 and slept in a car park the night she lost custody of her children, according to new court documents.

She was a pop princess. Now she's in and out of hospitals, rehab and court. How Britney lost it all.

The father of pop star Britney Spears was terrified by his daughter's deepening drug addiction as her life spiraled out of control five years ago, his attorney told jurors on Friday."Jamie (Spears) was living in constant fear that he was going to look at the TV one day and see Britney was dead," said Leon Gladstone, Jamie Spears' attorney.

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From "Mickey Mouse Club" to sex symbol and single mom, Britney Spears has always been noticed for a bit more than her music.

Britney Spears' infamous 2007 meltdown is in the news again due to a legal battle Spears is having with former manager Sam Lufti, who claims Britney still owes.

Britney Spears overdosed on amphetamines shortly before she was infamously strapped to a stretcher and taken to hospital where she was placed under pyschiatric hold.

In November 2006, the ink was barely dry on Britney's divorce papers with Kevin Federline when she hit the Hollywood club scene hard with two of Tinseltown's biggest party girls: Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.

The celebrity meltodown and comeback - in today's fame-obsessed culture it is a well documented path, but no trainwreck has been as talked about as Britney Spears 2007 meltdown.