The former manager of Britney Spears has legally requested that the American singer is given a psychiatric evaluation. The singer is said to be a crucial witness in a case involving her mother Lynne Spears and former manager Sam Lufti, but it has been claimed that the singer is in no psychiatric condition to testify.
Lufti was fired from his role as Spears’ manager in early 2008, but has embarked on a defamation lawsuit against the singer’s mother, Lynne Spears. Speaking in her autobiographical book Through The Storm, the singer’s mother claimed that Lufti used to manipulate her decisions by secretly drugging her and cutting off vital channels of communication.
However, Lynne Spears claimed that her daughter is incapable of testifying in the trial due to a mental weakness. Lufti has now moved to deny this claim, requesting that the Los Angeles Supreme Court conduct a psychiatric evaluation on the ‘Till The World Ends’ singer.
Lufti has pointed to the interviews that Spears gave to promote her latest LP ‘Femme Fatale’ as evidence that the singer is mentally sound.
This is, of course, not the first legal case that Spears has been involved in. A sexual harassment lawsuit was filed against the singer by former bodyguard Fernando Flores in 2010 and Spears was sued for more than $10 million by a fragrance company earlier this year.
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