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11-13-2007, 09:31 AM
Britney Spears is said to have returned a positive drugs test.
According to gossip website TMZ.com, the singer - who has to undergo random court-ordered drugs tests as part of the custody arrangements for her two sons with ex-husband Kevin Federline - gave a positive urine sample sometime last week.
However, Spears is adamant she is clean and that the reading was false.
Last week, Kevin's lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan claimed Spears had missed eight out of 14 drugs tests.
The troubled star - who lost custody of Sean Preston, two, and 14-month-old Jayden James to Federline after missing tests - is said to have failed to respond to several calls requesting she take the tests within an hour.
Kaplan said at the time: "We have been in court on this exact issue at least three times.
"She lives in a parallel universe. Mr Federline doesn't want to take these children out of their mother's life but what are we to do?"
On Wednesday, Kaplan plans to show a film of Spears driving through a red light with her kids in the car at another hearing.
A lawyer for Spears said the drug tests are "unconstitutional".
Anne Kiley added: "Since October 5 there have been 10 negative drug tests, the idea that she needs to respond within the hour is meaningless.
"Is the issue that Britney Spears needs to get up at 8.30am and answer the phone? She's a pop star with a number one album. She is not up that early."
However, Judge Scott Gordon hit back, saying the time of the tests are important as it will prove whether the singer can follow rules.
He said: "She needs to take responsibility. The issue is to see if she can follow a court order.
"Since we started this, there have been lost phones, changed numbers, voicemails being left on someone else's voicemail.
"Maybe we should set up a fixed appointment for her to be tested. The point is we cannot continue to do these weekly ex-parte motions."
Britney currently has three supervised visits a week with her sons but last month Judge Gordon took her rights away after she couldn't be contacted on a mobile phone number she had given.
He later reinstated her visitation rights when she gave the correct number.
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According to gossip website TMZ.com, the singer - who has to undergo random court-ordered drugs tests as part of the custody arrangements for her two sons with ex-husband Kevin Federline - gave a positive urine sample sometime last week.
However, Spears is adamant she is clean and that the reading was false.
Last week, Kevin's lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan claimed Spears had missed eight out of 14 drugs tests.
The troubled star - who lost custody of Sean Preston, two, and 14-month-old Jayden James to Federline after missing tests - is said to have failed to respond to several calls requesting she take the tests within an hour.
Kaplan said at the time: "We have been in court on this exact issue at least three times.
"She lives in a parallel universe. Mr Federline doesn't want to take these children out of their mother's life but what are we to do?"
On Wednesday, Kaplan plans to show a film of Spears driving through a red light with her kids in the car at another hearing.
A lawyer for Spears said the drug tests are "unconstitutional".
Anne Kiley added: "Since October 5 there have been 10 negative drug tests, the idea that she needs to respond within the hour is meaningless.
"Is the issue that Britney Spears needs to get up at 8.30am and answer the phone? She's a pop star with a number one album. She is not up that early."
However, Judge Scott Gordon hit back, saying the time of the tests are important as it will prove whether the singer can follow rules.
He said: "She needs to take responsibility. The issue is to see if she can follow a court order.
"Since we started this, there have been lost phones, changed numbers, voicemails being left on someone else's voicemail.
"Maybe we should set up a fixed appointment for her to be tested. The point is we cannot continue to do these weekly ex-parte motions."
Britney currently has three supervised visits a week with her sons but last month Judge Gordon took her rights away after she couldn't be contacted on a mobile phone number she had given.
He later reinstated her visitation rights when she gave the correct number.
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