Los Angeles: The one-time confidante of Britney Spears said he crushed up drugs in the pop singer's food to help her sleep and disabled her phone lines during the height of her meltdown five years ago, Spears' mother testified on Friday.
Lynne Spears told the Los Angeles jury in a civil trial that Sam Lutfi, Britney's self-styled manager at the time, described his actions to her in a January 2008 exchange at her daughter's Los Angeles home.
"Those were his exact words," Lynne Spears said on her first day on the witness stand. "I was very worried and I didn't know what to do so I tried to get her away from there."
Lutfi is suing Lynne Spears for defaming him in her 2008 book 'Through the Storm,' in which she related some of Lutfi's actions in 2007 when he became the singer's closest friend, and moved into her house....
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06:50 PM, Oct 27, 2012
