So says her former goonish manager/friend/moocher Sam Lufti in his official civil suit.
Lufti is pulling out all the stops and telling ALL in his bid to get paid. He claims she was hooked on prescription amphetamines during that whole batshit crazy period of her life when she shaved her head. In fact, he says she shaved her head to beat a drug test.
‘She liked to use amphetamines. Mostly everything that went wrong was because of this drug,’ Sam’s attorney, Joe Schleimer told the jury on Thursday, alleging that Mr Lutfi was made a scapegoat for the singer’s mental breakdown back in 2008. Schleimer told the jury that Spears had a ‘prescription for amphetamines, and overdosed on them’ before being put in the involuntary 5150 hold.
Lutfi felt that Spears should not perform at the 2007 MTV Awards as she was still overweight and did not rehearse. However ‘Britney wouldn’t hear it.’
Sammy boy wants a share of the singer’s fortunes, claiming he had an agreement to serve as her manager in exchange for 15 percent of her earnings.
Schleimer says the case will not be as cut and dry as you think. It’s obvious to us that Brit-Brit was off her meds crazy and he was taking advantage of the lack of family and real professionals protecting her at the time to sneak in and trying to weasel his way into managing one of the biggest money-making stars in the world. Which is funny…does that guy look like he can handle the magnitude of Britney Spears Inc.?
Lufti says he was the good guy and was trying to save her. In fact, one of his first actions after being hired as manager was having drug-sniffing dogs search the singer’s hilltop home. He claimed Spears favoured amphetamines and that the dogs turned up a substance the Grammy-award winner told Lutfi was probably crystal meth.