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		<title>Tiger Woods Is Back in Rehab — After Flying Home to Be With Vanessa Trump</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 22:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Tiger Woods returned to his rehab facility in Switzerland after briefly flying home to support girlfriend Vanessa Trump following her breast cancer diagnosis.</p>
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<li>Tiger Woods, 50, has returned to his rehab facility in Switzerland after a brief trip to the U.S.</li>
<li>He flew home to support girlfriend Vanessa Trump after she revealed a breast cancer diagnosis</li>
<li>A source tells PEOPLE he is &#8220;doing fine and on the road to a healthier future&#8221;</li>
<li>Woods entered treatment following his DUI arrest in March, after a two-car rollover crash near his Jupiter Island home</li>
<li>He broke his social media silence on Memorial Day with a tribute to veterans</li>
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<p>Tiger Woods took a brief detour from his recovery to be with the people who matter — and now he&#8217;s back to the work of getting well.</p>
<p>The 50-year-old returned to his rehab facility in Switzerland this week after flying to the U.S. to support his girlfriend, Vanessa Trump, following her recent breast cancer diagnosis. <a href="https://pagesix.com/2026/05/26/tiger-woods-returns-to-rehab-vanessa-trump/">Page Six confirmed</a> the trip, and a source close to Woods told PEOPLE: &#8220;Tiger should be in a planned program for a while more. He is doing fine and on the road to a healthier future.&#8221;</p>
<p>The same insider added that Woods is &#8220;doing what is necessary to get healthy and move forward in his life.&#8221;</p>
<h2>The Road Here</h2>
<p>Woods entered treatment after his arrest in March following a two-car rollover crash near his home on Jupiter Island, Florida. The DUI charge marked another difficult chapter in a life that has already had more than a few. His decision to seek treatment, and to stay in it even through personal upheaval, reads as something different from the Tiger Woods of even five years ago.</p>
<p>The detour to support Vanessa — who publicly revealed her breast cancer diagnosis earlier this month — didn&#8217;t derail the program. It was a pause, and then a return. Sources say the plan was always to go back.</p>
<h2>Memorial Day</h2>
<p>Woods also made his first social media appearance since entering treatment, posting an Instagram Story on Memorial Day honoring veterans. &#8220;My father was a Special Forces operator with two tours in Vietnam and 20 years of service,&#8221; he wrote. It was quiet and personal — and a reminder that he&#8217;s still present, even while stepping back from everything else.</p>
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		<title>Britney Spears Breaks Silence After Restaurant Drama</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sloane Whitaker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 17:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Britney Spears returned to Instagram with an F-bomb and a movie date after reports of a chaotic scene at a Sherman Oaks restaurant divided witnesses and her team.</p>
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<li>Britney Spears, 44, posted an Instagram Reel Friday heading to see <em>The Devil Wears Prada 2</em> — her first social media appearance since restaurant drama erupted mid-week.</li>
<li>Witnesses alleged she was barking, screaming, and walking around Blue Dog Tavern in Sherman Oaks holding a knife on Wednesday night.</li>
<li>Her rep called the reports &#8220;completely blown out of proportion,&#8221; saying she was telling a story about her dog and cutting her hamburger.</li>
<li>Entertainment journalist Jeff Sneider, who was dining nearby, went viral on X after posting about the &#8220;INSANE&#8221; experience in real time.</li>
<li>The incident comes weeks after Spears completed rehab and accepted a &#8220;wet reckless&#8221; plea deal following her March DUI arrest.</li>
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<p>Britney Spears had one response to a week of chaotic headlines: buttered popcorn and a Slurpee.</p>
<p>The pop icon, 44, returned to Instagram on Friday with a breezy Reel filmed inside her car, announcing she was on her way to catch <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/devil-wears-prada-sequel-with-anne-hathaway-everything-to-know/"><em>The Devil Wears Prada 2</em></a> — the long-awaited sequel reuniting Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt. &#8220;What&#8217;s up world?&#8221; she opened, flashing a grin. &#8220;So I&#8217;m about to go see Devil Wears Prada 2. I personally prefer Chanel or Gucci, but yo, if the devil says Prada, I guess we should listen, right?&#8221;</p>
<p>Then came the moment that had her fans immediately sharing the clip: &#8220;Anyways, I came here for the buttered popcorn and the Slurpee. F**k yeah, Slurpees. Yes man, yes!&#8221;</p>
<p>Unbothered energy, fully intact.</p>
<p>The casual Friday outing — which also included a low-profile stop at Paw Works pet store in Thousand Oaks, where she was photographed in a brown trench coat and sunglasses, at one point ducking her face behind the coat before climbing into her black Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon — came just two days after a dinner at Blue Dog Tavern in Sherman Oaks turned into the week&#8217;s most-talked-about celebrity story.</p>
<h2>What Witnesses Said Happened at Blue Dog Tavern</h2>
<p>On Wednesday evening, Spears arrived at the Sherman Oaks restaurant with her assistant and bodyguard. What happened next depends entirely on who you ask.</p>
<p>Entertainment journalist <a href="https://www.theinsneider.com/">Jeff Sneider</a> was dining nearby when a woman walked in wearing sunglasses. He didn&#8217;t recognize her at first. &#8220;The woman sat down and proceeded to make a lot of woofing or barking noises and just throw a lot of outbursts,&#8221; Sneider told Page Six exclusively. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t really until she took off her sunglasses that we realized, &#8216;Oh no, this is Britney Spears.'&#8221;</p>
<p>Sneider, a 20-year veteran of entertainment reporting, alleged that Spears &#8220;kept standing up and sitting down and moving around the restaurant&#8221; throughout the meal. At one point, he claimed, she stood up and may have &#8220;forgot to put down her silverware&#8221; — leaving her holding a knife. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t threatened or anything like that,&#8221; he was careful to note. &#8220;But when she eventually left, I turned around and was like, &#8216;Holy s**t, that was crazy!&#8217; to the entire section.&#8221;</p>
<p>He also alleged that one woman in their section felt directly alarmed, claiming Spears &#8220;had a knife and came toward me&#8221; and that she feared for her safety. Sneider said he didn&#8217;t believe Spears had any violent intention, but called her &#8220;definitely a nuisance to sit next to at dinner.&#8221; He added that her two companions &#8220;tried to coax her back into her seat&#8221; throughout the evening without much success — &#8220;she was obviously a handful.&#8221;</p>
<p>The details kept coming. Sneider alleged she lit a cigarette inside the restaurant and staff had to intervene to get it put out. By the end of the night, the table reportedly looked, in one eyewitness&#8217;s words, &#8220;like a toddler had been there&#8221; — food left on the table and underneath it, drinks untouched. She&#8217;d ordered a burger and fries but mostly picked at the fries. At one point, according to reports, she and her bodyguard fed each other fries and she was overheard saying &#8220;I love you.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sneider went viral on X that same night, posting in real time: &#8220;I am having dinner next to Britney Spears right now and it&#8217;s a WILD experience.&#8221; A follow-up post added: &#8220;She just left and everyone in the restaurant turned and started talking about it. An INSANE dining experience. One diner feared for her life. This is not a joke&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Notably, Sneider said he did not witness Spears drink any alcohol during the dinner.</p>
<p>TMZ, which first broke the restaurant story Thursday morning, reported that witnesses described her as &#8220;raising her voice, screaming and even barking at times&#8221; in what sources called a &#8220;kind of sad&#8221; and &#8220;chaotic&#8221; scene. Surveillance footage obtained by the Daily Mail also showed Spears at a liquor store in Sherman Oaks with a friend earlier that same evening, before the restaurant visit.</p>
<h2>Her Team&#8217;s Response Was Swift — and Pointed</h2>
<p>Spears&#8217; representative didn&#8217;t wait long to push back, and the statement landed with some force.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is completely blown out of proportion. Britney was enjoying a quiet dinner with her assistant and bodyguard. She was simply telling the story about how her dog was barking at the neighbors,&#8221; the rep said in a statement issued to multiple outlets. &#8220;At no point did she put anyone in danger with a knife. She was cutting her hamburger in half.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then came the part that resonated with longtime Britney supporters: &#8220;This constant attack on everything that she does and this is exactly what happened 20 years ago when the media tried to depict Britney as a bad person. This is ridiculous, and it needs to stop now.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a comparison that hits differently given the history. Spears spent 13 years under a court-ordered conservatorship that was terminated in late 2021, and her relationship with the press — paparazzi especially — has been notoriously fraught since the mid-2000s. Her team has long argued that ordinary moments in her life get filtered through a lens that wouldn&#8217;t apply to anyone else.</p>
<p>No official report of a threat or injury was filed in connection with the dinner.</p>
<h2>The Bigger Picture: Rehab, a DUI Plea, and What Comes Next</h2>
<p>Wednesday&#8217;s dinner was only Britney&#8217;s second public sighting since leaving a rehab facility she checked into on April 12 — a move that came after her March arrest in Ventura County, California, on suspicion of driving under the influence. Her sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James Federline — who moved to Hawaii with their father Kevin Federline in 2023 after a period of estrangement — reportedly encouraged her to seek treatment.</p>
<p>She was first spotted after rehab on April 30. A source close to her told Page Six at the time that Spears was &#8220;doing really well&#8221; and &#8220;excited to start afresh,&#8221; adding that &#8220;rehab was a great opportunity for her to ground herself.&#8221; A second source noted she was &#8220;continuing counseling remotely.&#8221;</p>
<p>On May 4, her attorney Michael Goldstein entered a guilty plea on her behalf — Spears was not present at the hearing — to a reduced &#8220;wet reckless&#8221; charge after prosecutors agreed to dismiss the DUI allegation. The deal is standard for first-time offenders with low blood alcohol levels and no crash or injuries. Goldstein said at the time that Spears &#8220;has accepted responsibility for her conduct&#8221; and that she had &#8220;taken significant steps to implement positive change.&#8221; She was sentenced to 12 months of probation, a fine, three months of alcohol school, and ongoing psychological and psychiatric treatment.</p>
<p>Now, a new source speaking to Rob Shuter&#8217;s Naughty But Nice Substack is painting a more anxious picture of the mood around her. &#8220;People around Britney are exhausted, scared, and running out of answers,&#8221; the insider said. &#8220;If this is how she behaves in public, imagine what happens behind closed doors.&#8221; A second source added: &#8220;The rehab bought everyone a little time, but it didn&#8217;t solve the deeper issues. She refuses to accept she needs more help, and that&#8217;s what terrifies people most.&#8221;</p>
<p>Her team has not responded to those claims.</p>
<p>What Britney herself offered the world on Friday was something far simpler: a car selfie, a fashion joke, and genuine excitement about a movie snack. &#8220;F**k yeah, Slurpees,&#8221; she said — and honestly, sometimes that&#8217;s enough of an answer.</p>
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		<title>Tiffany Haddish Wants 4-Year DUI Case Dismissed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sloane Whitaker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Tiffany Haddish's lawyers are demanding her 2022 Georgia DUI case be thrown out, citing constitutional violations and career damage after 52 months of delays.</p>
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<li>Tiffany Haddish&#8217;s attorneys have filed a motion to dismiss her 2022 Georgia DUI case after nearly 52 months of legal delays</li>
<li>Lawyers argue the court violated her constitutional right to a speedy trial — she&#8217;s declared herself ready for trial at least 10 times</li>
<li>The unresolved case has cost her work opportunities and complicated travel documents, including a recent trip to Australia</li>
<li>Her attorneys call the situation &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; — a misdemeanor case with no victims, no injuries, and prosecutors who&#8217;ve stopped following up</li>
<li>The next hearing is scheduled for November 7</li>
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<p>Tiffany Haddish is done waiting. Nearly four and a half years after her 2022 DUI arrest in Peachtree City, Georgia, the <em>Girls Trip</em> star&#8217;s legal team has had enough — and they&#8217;re now demanding a judge throw the whole case out.</p>
<p>Her attorneys, Marissa Goldberg and Drew Findling, filed a motion to dismiss in Fayette County State Court, arguing the court has violated Haddish&#8217;s constitutional right to a speedy trial by letting the misdemeanor case sit in limbo with no resolution in sight. The delay now stands at nearly 52 months — and counting.</p>
<p>&#8220;The procrastinated failure to rule on a misdemeanor case with no victims or injuries is unprecedented,&#8221; Goldberg and Findling told TMZ. &#8220;Fairness and the constitution require that the court dismiss this case.&#8221;</p>
<h2>What&#8217;s Been Happening in Court — Or Rather, What Hasn&#8217;t</h2>
<p>Haddish was arrested on January 14, 2022, after Peachtree City Police responded to a call about a driver asleep at the wheel on Highway 74 around 2:30 a.m. Officers spotted her vehicle, pulled her over after she rolled into the yard of a nearby home, and arrested her on suspicion of DUI — believing she had been under the influence of marijuana. She was booked at Fayette County Jail and released the same day after posting a $1,666 bond.</p>
<p>The case moved forward in May 2024 when a hearing was held on a motion to suppress certain evidence. But since that hearing — nearly a year ago — the court hasn&#8217;t entered a single order. When her lawyers followed up, they were repeatedly told the court was &#8220;working on it.&#8221; As recently as February 10, they were told orders were &#8220;forthcoming.&#8221; They&#8217;re still waiting.</p>
<p>According to court documents, Haddish has declared herself &#8220;ready for trial&#8221; approximately ten times since July 2024 and has followed up with the court roughly a dozen times about the outstanding rulings. Prosecutors, meanwhile, filed motions to continue the case twice in 2025 — in March and May — while apparently losing interest in actually pursuing it. Her lawyers note that prosecutors don&#8217;t even inquire about the case anymore.</p>
<p>The defense also argues that as time drags on, witness memories fade and potentially exculpatory evidence deteriorates — a real and compounding harm that goes beyond inconvenience.</p>
<h2>The Real-World Cost to Her Career</h2>
<p>This isn&#8217;t just a legal headache. Haddish&#8217;s team says the open case has been quietly damaging her professionally for years.</p>
<p>In their filing, her attorneys say corporate clients have been reluctant to hire her while a criminal case remains unresolved — a chilling effect on her earning power that&#8217;s hard to quantify but very real. Most recently, the pending case created complications when she tried to obtain travel documents to work in Australia. &#8220;She has had difficulty obtaining the proper travel documents to work in certain countries who see a pending case as a concern,&#8221; the filing states, as reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She&#8217;s also had to bring in costly third-party help just to navigate those travel challenges.</p>
<p>Her lawyers describe the impact as &#8220;presumptively prejudicial&#8221; under Georgia law — language that carries specific legal weight when arguing a speedy trial violation.</p>
<h2>The Bigger Picture</h2>
<p>This isn&#8217;t the only DUI-related chapter in Haddish&#8217;s recent history. In November 2023, she was arrested again after police in Beverly Hills found her asleep in her car on Beverly Drive with the engine running. That case resolved relatively quickly — she pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was placed on summary probation for one year, ordered to complete 40 hours of community service, and required to complete the Driver&#8217;s Education Program, the MADD Victim Impact Program, and the Hospital and Morgue program.</p>
<p>After that second arrest, Haddish went public about her sobriety journey, disclosing she had entered rehab and was staying off alcohol and marijuana as mandated by the court. She said at the time that it wasn&#8217;t much of a struggle — she&#8217;d only been using marijuana to manage the pain from endometriosis, a condition she&#8217;s been open about for years.</p>
<p>The Georgia case — older, unresolved, and with no injuries or victims on record — is now the one her team wants gone. A motion hearing is scheduled for November 7 at 8:30 a.m. in Fayette County. Whether the judge will finally act, or whether Haddish will still be waiting come next year, is the only question left.</p>
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		<title>Kim Mathers Pleads No Contest in DUI Hit-and-Run Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 19:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Eminem's ex-wife Kim Mathers pleaded no contest to DUI and fleeing the scene after a February crash that sent a parked truck flying 50 feet.</p>
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<li>Kim Mathers, 51, pleaded no contest to operating while impaired and failure to report an accident on May 11</li>
<li>She allegedly crashed her Range Rover into a parked Dodge Ram on Feb. 16, sending it 50 feet down the street, with her son and his friends in the car</li>
<li>After the crash, she drove home and hit her own garage door — and appeared confused when questioned by police</li>
<li>Her BAC tested at 0.079 percent; officers noted slurred speech, glossy eyes, and she nodded off during booking</li>
<li>Sentencing is set for June 17 in Macomb County District Court; both charges are misdemeanors carrying up to 90–93 days</li>
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<p>Kim Mathers, the ex-wife of Eminem, pleaded no contest Monday to driving under the influence and fleeing the scene of a crash — a February incident that, by all accounts, could have been far worse. Her son was in the car.</p>
<p>\n\n</p>
<p>The 51-year-old Chesterfield Township, Michigan resident was arraigned May 11 in the 42-2 District Court in New Baltimore, where she immediately entered the no-contest plea to both charges: operating while impaired, a 93-day misdemeanor, and failure to stop after a collision, a 90-day misdemeanor. The Macomb County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office confirmed those are the maximum charges available under the law given the evidence.</p>
<p>\n\n</p>
<p>Sentencing is scheduled for June 17 at 9 a.m. before Judge William H. Hackel III.</p>
<p>\n\n</p>
<h2>What Happened That Night in February</h2>
<p>\n\n</p>
<p>According to the Macomb County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, the incident unfolded on the evening of February 16, when Mathers had loaded her son Parker and three of his friends into her white Range Rover for a shopping trip. Somewhere along the way, she allegedly struck a silver Dodge Ram pickup truck that was parked on the street — hitting it with enough force to push it approximately 50 feet from where it sat, per the <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/macomb-county/2026/05/12/owi-charges-latest-legal-woes-kim-mathers-eminem-ex-wife/90043271007/">Detroit News</a>.</p>
<p>\n\n</p>
<p>She didn&#8217;t stop. Instead, she drove back home and pulled into her driveway — where she then crashed into her own garage door. Neighbors reportedly witnessed that second collision and spoke to <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2026/02/24/eminem-ex-wife-kim-scott-bodycam-footage-dui-arrest/">TMZ</a>.</p>
<p>\n\n</p>
<p>When officers arrived and questioned her about the garage damage, Mathers appeared &#8220;confused&#8221; and insisted there was already a dent there. Police noted she had &#8220;glossy eyes, slurred/slowed speech and lethargic demeanor,&#8221; and they detected &#8220;a strong odor of alcoholic intoxicants emitting from her person/breath.&#8221; During booking, she was observed nodding off and going limp while awaiting instructions. A breathalyzer test recorded her BAC at 0.079 percent.</p>
<p>\n\n</p>
<p>Her mug shot, released by the Macomb County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, showed Mathers with deep, puffy under-eye bags and a pained expression. Parker, notably, is her son from a relationship after her split from Eminem — not from their marriage.</p>
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<h2>The Prosecutor&#8217;s Message Was Direct</h2>
<p>\n\n</p>
<p>Macomb County Prosecutor Pete Lucido didn&#8217;t mince words in his statement following the plea. &#8220;Driving under the influence is not a lapse in judgment — it is a deliberate decision that puts every person on the road at risk,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We see the consequences far too often: lives lost, families shattered, and communities changed forever. These tragedies are preventable. There is always another option — call a ride, designate a driver, make a plan. Choosing to drive impaired is choosing to endanger others, and we will continue to hold those who make that choice fully accountable.&#8221;</p>
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<h2>This Isn&#8217;t the First Time</h2>
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<p>The February crash isn&#8217;t an isolated chapter. In October 2015, Mathers was involved in a one-car crash at 23 Mile and Card roads in Macomb County, where she struck a utility pole and her SUV ended up upside down in a ditch. Court records from that case were sealed — and the reason why is deeply painful: Mathers herself called into the Mojo in the Morning radio show in May 2016 and said she had been attempting suicide in that crash. She was sentenced to a year of probation and a $900 fine.</p>
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<p>In that same conversation, she opened up about the weight she&#8217;s carried for years — struggling with depression, living under the relentless glare of public attention, and the devastating loss of her twin sister, who died from an alleged drug overdose in a Warren trailer park. She said at the time that she had been clean for a decade but admitted that life in the spotlight never gets easier.</p>
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<p>Mathers and Eminem — whose real name is Marshall Mathers — have one of pop culture&#8217;s most turbulent relationship histories. They first married on June 14, 1999, divorced in 2001, remarried in January 2006, and Eminem filed for divorce again just months later that April. Their relationship famously inspired some of his most visceral and controversial music.</p>
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<p>She&#8217;ll be back in Macomb County District Court on June 17 to learn her fate. No details about potential penalties, damage costs, or injuries have been released by authorities ahead of that date.</p>
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<p><em>If you or someone you know is struggling, the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is available 24/7 by call or text at 988.</em></p>
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		<title>Kim Mathers Pleads No Contest in Impaired Hit-and-Run Crash</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 14:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Eminem's ex-wife Kim Mathers pleaded no contest to impaired driving and hit-and-run charges after crashing her Range Rover into a parked truck in February.</p>
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<li>Kim Mathers, 51, pleaded no contest May 11 to operating while impaired and failure to stop after a collision</li>
<li>She allegedly struck a parked Dodge Ram with her Range Rover on Feb. 16, pushing it 50 feet down the street</li>
<li>Her son Parker and three of his friends were reportedly in the car at the time of the crash</li>
<li>After the crash, she allegedly drove home and hit her own garage door rather than stopping at the scene</li>
<li>Mathers faces sentencing June 17 — this is not her first DUI-related legal trouble</li>
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<p>Kimberley Anne Mathers, the ex-wife of rapper Eminem, pleaded no contest Monday to impaired driving and hit-and-run charges after a February crash in Chesterfield Township, Michigan, that sent a parked truck sliding 50 feet down the street.</p>
<p>Mathers, 51, was arraigned in the 42-2 District Court in New Baltimore and immediately entered the no contest plea — a move that, while not an admission of guilt, is treated as one for sentencing purposes. She faces up to 93 days on the operating while impaired charge and up to 90 days for failure to stop after a collision, both misdemeanors and the maximum charges available under the law based on the evidence, according to the Macomb County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.</p>
<p>The incident happened on the evening of February 16, when Mathers was driving a white Range Rover with her son Parker and three of his friends in the car — the group had left her home to go shopping. She allegedly struck a silver Dodge Ram pickup truck parked on the street with enough force to push it roughly 50 feet from where it sat, according to the Macomb Daily News.</p>
<p>What happened next made things significantly worse. Rather than stopping at the scene, Mathers reportedly drove back to her house — where she then crashed into her own garage door, according to neighbors who spoke to TMZ. Her mugshot, released by the Macomb County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, showed her with deep, puffy under-eye bags as she grimaced at the camera.</p>
<p>Parker is Mathers&#8217; son from a relationship after her divorce from Eminem, with whom she shares daughter Hailie Jade.</p>
<h2>What the Prosecutor Said</h2>
<p>Macomb County Prosecutor Pete Lucido didn&#8217;t mince words in his statement following the arraignment. &#8220;Driving under the influence is not a lapse in judgment — it is a deliberate decision that puts every person on the road at risk,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We see the consequences far too often: lives lost, families shattered, and communities changed forever.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lucido added: &#8220;These tragedies are preventable. There is always another option — call a ride, designate a driver, make a plan. Choosing to drive impaired is choosing to endanger others, and we will continue to hold those who make that choice fully accountable.&#8221;</p>
<h2>A Long and Painful History</h2>
<p>This is far from the first time Mathers has faced legal trouble involving impairment. In October 2015, she drove a Cadillac Escalade into a utility pole and flipped the vehicle into a ditch at 23 Mile and Card roads in Macomb County. The following May, she <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/people/2016/05/04/kim-mathers-dui-case-sealed-suicide-attempt/83926550/">called into Detroit&#8217;s Mojo in the Morning radio show</a> and revealed that the crash had been a suicide attempt — and that she had consumed a fifth of Malibu rum beforehand. A judge later denied her request to have the evidence thrown out and the case dismissed, and she was <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/macomb-county/2016/11/22/kim-mathers-eminems-ex-wife-sentenced-dui/94264072/">sentenced to a fine and probation in November 2016</a>.</p>
<p>In that same radio interview, Mathers opened up about the weight of living her life in the public eye, saying she had struggled deeply with depression — particularly after the death of her twin sister, who was found dead from an alleged drug overdose in a Warren trailer park. She said at the time that she had been clean for 10 years but acknowledged how difficult the ongoing scrutiny had been.</p>
<p>Her legal history goes back further still. In 2003, she was arrested on charges of possession of a controlled substance, driving on a suspended license, and failure to use due care near an emergency vehicle. In 2004, she was found in violation of probation on the drug charges and sentenced to 30 days in jail followed by 90 days in a drug rehabilitation program.</p>
<p>Mathers is scheduled to appear for sentencing at the 42-2 District Court on June 17 at 9 a.m.</p>
<p><em>If you or someone you know is struggling, the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is available 24/7 by call or text at <strong>988</strong>.</em></p>
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		<title>Britney Spears on &#8216;Spiritual Journey&#8217; After DUI Plea Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 15:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Britney Spears is calling her post-rehab life a 'blessing in disguise' — and a pet store snake is somehow at the center of it all.</p>
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<li>Britney Spears, 44, posted an Instagram photo handling a baby snake during a pet store trip with sons Sean Preston and Jayden.</li>
<li>She called the experience part of a &#8220;spiritual journey&#8221; and described recent changes in her life as &#8220;a blessing in disguise.&#8221;</li>
<li>The post came days after her May 4 plea deal, where she pleaded guilty to &#8220;wet reckless&#8221; driving and was sentenced to 12 months&#8217; probation.</li>
<li>Britney checked into rehab in early April, weeks after her March 4 DUI arrest on the 101 Freeway in Ventura, California.</li>
<li>Her attorney says she has &#8220;accepted responsibility&#8221; and taken &#8220;significant steps to implement positive change.&#8221;</li>
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<p>Britney Spears is finding meaning in unexpected places — including the reptile section of a pet store. The pop icon took to Instagram over the weekend to share a photo of herself holding a baby snake during an outing with her sons, and the caption she wrote alongside it said more about where she&#8217;s at mentally than any formal statement ever could.</p>
<p>&#8220;Went to the pet store with my kids and look at what a beautiful baby snake this is,&#8221; Spears wrote. &#8220;Snakes are symbolic of good health, higher consciousness, and pure luck&#8230; I&#8217;m so damn thankful to my friends and so many new beautiful people I have met through my spiritual journey&#8230; all a blessing in disguise.&#8221;</p>
<p>She went on to get real about the inner work she&#8217;s still doing. &#8220;I still have to learn how to be kind to myself and the way I speak to myself,&#8221; she added. &#8220;It&#8217;s a never ending journey and sometimes I just stop, look up and say wow God I think that was you and smile on!!!!&#8221;</p>
<p>For longtime fans, the snake imagery carried an extra charge — it recalled the moment Britney draped a 7-foot yellow albino Burmese python around her neck during her legendary 2001 MTV Video Music Awards performance of &#8220;I&#8217;m a Slave 4 U.&#8221; The baby snake in her Instagram photo shared similar coloring, and whether intentional or not, the callback wasn&#8217;t lost on anyone paying attention.</p>
<h2>From the 101 Freeway to a Plea Deal</h2>
<p>The post arrives in the wake of a genuinely difficult few months for Spears. On the evening of March 4, the California Highway Patrol pulled her over after receiving reports of erratic driving involving her BMW on the southbound 101 Freeway in Ventura. A blood alcohol test put her BAC at .06 — technically under California&#8217;s legal limit of 0.08 — but she was still arrested on suspicion of DUI involving drugs and alcohol.</p>
<p>Her spokesperson didn&#8217;t mince words in a statement to Us Weekly the following day. &#8220;This was an unfortunate incident that is 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&#8217;s life.&#8221;</p>
<p>Five weeks later, in early April, Britney checked into a rehabilitation clinic. According to an insider, the decision came after some candid conversations with her sons — Sean Preston, now 20, and Jayden, 19, both of whom she shares with ex-husband Kevin Federline. &#8220;Britney went to rehab after several conversations with both of her sons,&#8221; the source told Us. &#8220;They expressed concern about her recent behavior and urged her to seek professional help, which has been long overdue, to get her back on track. All they&#8217;ve ever wanted for their mom is health and happiness, even during the years they were estranged.&#8221;</p>
<p>She left the facility at the end of April, the same day she was formally charged with one misdemeanor count of DUI. By May 4, she had reached a deal.</p>
<p>At a hearing at Ventura County courthouse — which Britney did not attend in person — Commissioner Matthew Nemerson sentenced her to 12 months&#8217; probation and one day in jail, with credit given for time already served. She was also fined $571, required to complete a DUI class, and ordered to see a psychologist once a week and a psychiatrist twice a month. The original DUI charge was dismissed.</p>
<p>She qualified for the reduced &#8220;wet reckless&#8221; plea — reckless driving involving alcohol and/or drugs — because she had no prior DUI history, her blood alcohol level was low, and there was no crash or injury involved. The Ventura County District Attorney&#8217;s Office noted the resolution is &#8220;common, particularly when a defendant demonstrates self-motivation to address underlying issues through rehabilitation or a drug and alcohol treatment program.&#8221;</p>
<p>Her attorney, Michael Goldstein, spoke plainly after the hearing. &#8220;Through her plea today, Britney has accepted responsibility for her conduct. She has taken significant steps to implement positive change, which is clearly reflected in the Ventura County District Attorney&#8217;s decision to reduce the charge in this case and dismiss the DUI. Britney appreciates this discretion and is also grateful for the outpouring of support she has received.&#8221;</p>
<h2>A Long Road, and What Comes Next</h2>
<p>For anyone who has followed Britney Spears over the past two decades — through the early superstardom, the 2007 public breakdown, the 13-year conservatorship under her father Jamie Spears, and the hard-won freedom that came when a judge terminated it in November 2021 — this chapter feels both familiar and different. The stakes are real. So, apparently, is the intention.</p>
<p>The snake post, for all its quirky charm, reads like someone genuinely trying to reframe what&#8217;s happened to her — not spin it, but find something worth holding onto in the wreckage. &#8220;Sometimes I just stop, look up and say wow God I think that was you and smile on,&#8221; she wrote.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not a publicist&#8217;s line. That&#8217;s Britney.</p>
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