Britney Spears's mom staged the intervention !

Troubled pop tart, Britney Spears checked in to rehab last week after her mother, Lynne Spears, staged an intervention reports Perez Hilton.

On Wednesday of last week, Lynne took action after she found her daughter incapacitated and sprawled out on the floor in the middle of the day.

According to a source, she had been 'partying heavily and was completely out of it.'

Lynne Spears then reportedly threatened her 25-year-old daughter that she would take her two children away from her unless she checked into rehab.

Britney checked into Eric Clapton's Crossroads Centre in Antigua rehab
clinic last Thursday (15.02.07) following a four-day drinking binge in New
York.
But she stayed less than 24 hours before visiting her two sons, Sean
Preston, one and five-month-old Jayden James in Malibu.

A friend of Britney's says, "[She's been] thriving on the publicity of her recent behavior. She feels a failure professionally and unloved in her personal life. It's as if she is getting a kick out of doing increasingly erratic things just to see how the public and media react. Sadly, she is getting confused by what she sees as adoration, when it's actually her fans reacting in horror."

Britney Spears sparked fears she is on the verge of a breakdown after
shaving her head.
The 25-year-old singer - who is said to be terrified of losing her children
in a custody battle with estranged husband Kevin Federline - was seen crying
in her limousine before entering Esther's Haircutting Salon in Tarazana,
California, on Friday (16.02.07).
After hairdressers refused to shave her head, Britney grabbed a pair of
clippers and sheared off her locks herself.
Salon owner Esther Tognozzi said: "I tried to talk her out of it, but she
said, 'No, I absolutely want it shaved off now.'
"Afterwards she looked in the mirror and said with tears in her eyes, 'Oh,
my God, I shaved it all off. My mom is going to be so upset with me.'
"I asked her if the buzz cut was a symbol of a new beginning and she said,
'Yeah, something like that.' "
An hour later Britney went to the Body and Soul Tattoo parlour and had pink
lips etched onto her wrist and a black, pink and white cross on her lower
hip.
One onlooker revealed: "She said she was tired of having things plugged into
her. She seemed distraught and disturbed, like she was on the verge of a
nervous breakdown."
Later that night, troubled Britney was seen at Beverly Hills' Cedars Sinai
Medical Center wearing a dark wig.
She went into a private room and was seen by medical staff before leaving an
hour later.