Britney Spears Enters Treatment Facility One Month After DUI Arrest

A month after her arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence in Ventura County, California, Britney Spears — 44 years old and long a figure upon whom the public has projected its fascinations and judgments — has voluntarily entered a treatment facility. The choice is her own, made in the shadow of a pending May court date, and it arrives at the end of a life lived with unusual intensity in the open. Whatever the legal outcome, the act of choosing carries meaning for a woman whose right to choose was, for years, not fully her own.