Britney Spears has entered a treatment facility following her arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence last month.
A representative for the singer confirmed to PEOPLE on Sunday that the 44-year-old had voluntarily checked herself in to receive support.
Spears was arrested in Ventura, California, on March 4 and released the following day.
At the time, her team described the incident as “completely inexcusable”.
“Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law and hopefully this can be the first step in long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney’s life,” the statement said.
“Hopefully, she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time.”
The statement added that her sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James, whom she shares with her former husband Kevin Federline, would continue to spend time with her as her family works towards a plan focused on her wellbeing.
The arrest marks another difficult chapter for Spears, who has previously spoken about her struggles with mental health.
In 2008, she was placed under two psychiatric holds within weeks of each other, including an incident in which she locked herself in a bathroom with her young son.
The episode contributed to Federline being granted sole custody.
Reflecting on that period in her 2023 memoir The Woman in Me, she wrote that she “didn't want anyone taking [her] baby” and was “feeling desperate to keep my own children for a few more hours.”
The singer has also detailed the impact of her conservatorship, which lasted more than a decade before being terminated by a judge in 2021.
“This is what’s hard to explain, how quickly I could vacillate between being a little girl and being a teenager and being a woman, because of the way they had robbed me of my freedom,” she wrote.
“The woman in me was pushed down for a long time.”
Since its end, Spears has spoken about the ongoing process of recovery, saying she was on the “right medication” and that she “still needs lots of healing.”
In a video shared in 2022, she described the experience of the conservatorship as traumatic, adding: “I was scared, broken, [and] I'm sharing this because I want people to know I'm only human… I do feel victimised after these experiences and how can I mend this if I don't talk about it?”
