Sam Lutfi: "I Gave Britney Miracle Pills"

Sam Lutfi: "I Gave Britney Miracle Pills" 2/7/08

Britney Spears' self-proclaimed manager Sam Lutfi has confessed to drugging the troubled pop star.

Lutfi was served with a restraining order by the singer's parents Jamie and Lynne Spears last week (01Feb08) amid claims he verbally abused and drugged Britney.

And now Spears' longtime companion has confessed to medicating the star, insisting he only handed out pills to help the singer get some rest after suffering a period of sleep deprivation.

In the new issue of American magazine Us Weekly, Lutfi reveals he gave "a handful of pills" to the star shortly before her parents arrived at her Los Angeles home last month (31Jan08) to take her to UCLA Medical Center.

He recalls: "I said these pills are working wonders, they are miracle pills."

And he goes on to describe the severity of Britney's illness, adding: "In the depressive episodes, it's all crying. But in the manic episode, there's very little crying or sympathy or compassion. She becomes another person. She becomes somebody that just doesn't care about anybody or anything."

Lutfi admits there were clues to Spears' mental state in the characters and accents she adopted.

He adds, "The British accent is part of the mania. She'll stick to the British accent because she becomes comfortable with it... But you know, when the pink wig comes on, it's getting bad."

Spears is currently undergoing psychiatric treatment at the L.A. hospital and is expected to remain there for another fortnight.

In a declaration from Lynne Spears, released on Tuesday (05Feb08), the pop star's worried mum claimed, "Sam told me that he grinds up Britney's pills, which were on the counter and included (sleeping medication) Risperdol (sic) and Seroquel.

"He told us that he puts them in her food and that was the reason she had been quiet for the last three days.

"She had been sleeping. He told us that the doctor who is treating her now is trying to get her into a sleep-induced coma so that they could give her drugs to heal her brain."