Ali Sims, Tony Barretto and Britney Spears

Tony Barretto the former bodyguard and secret witness in the Federline/Spears custody battle is exposing Britney Spears for the terrible mother and drug addict that she is.

“I was surprised to find how much the job involved looking after her kids. She was always passing the kids along to us. If they were happy, she was happy. If they weren’t happy, she was passing them on to the nanny or the security staff. We were the only family around her. She’d call a doctor to come out if they cried too much.

“She’d say: ‘Can you grab the baby, honey?’ She always called me ‘baby’ or ‘honey’. I don’t think she ever learned my name. She’d tell me, ‘We’re going for a tan. Can you take the baby?’ And then she’d walk off. She wouldn’t really ask me; she’d just leave.

“There was a time when I thought she was going to hurt the kids. She sent the nanny home. She sent her best friend and personal assistant, Alli Sims, home. Britney hates to be alone, so this was worrying.

“One of the bodyguards who had been with her longest said she was beginning to shut down as she had just before she shaved her head. He said she’d been talking about suicide then, and this was the same. Britney was sobbing. She screamed.”

He told Tony, “I’m worried about the kids. Don’t let her go swimming with them.”

“Shocked, I asked, ‘Is she going to drown them?’ He said, ‘I don’t know.’ I started to cry. How am I supposed to protect someone like that?”

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Tony believes all Britney’s problems stem from her divorce with Kevin Federline.

“She wanted Kevin back, and she wouldn’t have it that he is gone. I think she was screaming in frustration. She lost the love of her life. I think she’s scarred from this. She calls him and tries to be passive, but it usually turns into yelling matches. She flung her phone out of the car during one argument. Then she borrowed my partner’s phone, and smashed that during another row.”

As for Britney’s home and surroundings, Tony says her home is comfortable but that Brit spends most of her time in her bedroom.

“It was surprisingly homely. It’s very dark inside. There isn’t a lot of lighting. She spends much of her time in the bedroom, but there were several living rooms tastefully decorated. It was very comfortable.”

“I was at her beck and call to do whatever she asked. I often watched her kids, and helped her install an antique chandelier. Another guard once did her laundry. She doesn’t treat her staff like slaves, but she’s so self-obsessed that she doesn’t think about the people around her.”

A typical day for Britney is the folllowing,

“Typically she wakes around one or two in the afternoon. We get her two drinks from Starbucks: a hot large vanilla latte, and a cold mocha Frappuccino. We’d ask if she wants a hot or a cold.

“She goes tanning almost daily in Bel Air, on a UV tanning bed. Then she’ll decide whether to have a manicure there. She loves sushi, so she’ll often have that for breakfast, even though it’s lunchtime. Through the day she snacks on crisps, and loves Coke, Special K cereal and Red Bull energy drinks. When she goes shopping sometimes we’ll close down the whole store, other times an entire aisle.

She likes to rent cars and drive them around. She wanted the newest Jaguar, but was upset that it wasn’t white. We only found a black one. In the afternoon she’d come home and swim. Then she’d go out to dinner and a club.”

Tony says Britney has a good relationship with the paparazzi and they show their gratitude by paying her parking or buying her coffee. As for money, there is no limit with Britney.

“She only has a solid titanium credit card with no limit. She could buy a jet if she wanted. Her bodyguards carry cash for her. She buys things, we pay.”

Tony says working for Britney was a little frightening because she was so sporadic and manic.

“She’s unpredictable. No one knows what she’ll do next. That’s what scared me. I don’t know what caused her screaming, whether it was drugs or mental instability. She’d be wailing, making no sense. It was worse at night. She’d scream and guards would run to check on her, just in case it was a snake or an intruder. I’d ask how she was, and she’d say, ‘I’m OK.’ Sometimes the baby was in the room when she screamed, and the guards would grab him.

“We had a security room beside the main house, with a couch and TV, and she’d frequently bring the kids in there to hang out with us. We’d say, ‘We’re not bodyguarding; we’re babysitting.’ But we were babysitting Britney, as well as her kids. There were times when she spent very little time with them, some days less than an hour. And she’s not very good at knowing whether they eat or need changing. I don’t think I ever saw her feed her kids at home.

Once she took the kids to the dance studio and didn’t bring any food for them. She sent someone out to get them soup and crackers. She’d smoke around the house, and though she wouldn’t smoke in front of the children, her clothes absorbed the smoke and I’m sure that made the baby cry.

In my opinion, it was a child taking care of children. I wouldn’t have her as a babysitter. The harder it was to comfort them, the likelier we’d end up with the children. She had a low attention span. She’d become bored with anything.”

Barretto says that he only saw her take drugs on a couple of occasions but could always tell when she’d been using.

“I’ve seen her take narcotics in nightclubs on only two occasions, but her drugged behaviour – fidgety, nervous, jumpy – I’ve seen at her home, too, so I assume she was on drugs at home. At the club, she was snorting a powdery substance, which I assume to be cocaine or methamphetamine.

The first time she was at Teddy’s nightclub in Hollywood in April, in a private booth. She asked me to hold the curtains up around it. After 20 minutes I looked over my shoulder, and she was snorting something out of her hand with a straw. One night I opened the restroom door after she’d been in there half an hour, and saw her snorting from a straw again. She’d sneak out of the house on her own without security. Sometimes she’d be gone till the next morning. It was an unspoken subject, just as nobody ever asked her about drugs.”

The former bodyguard claims rehab was a joke.

“Rehab did her no good at all. I think she leads a secret lifestyle and hides it from those she doesn’t trust. She gets upset with the notion of having to go there. She was supposed to be sober after rehab, but she loved her Jack Daniels and Coke. She’d always drink it in a Styrofoam cup, so nobody could see what she was drinking I’d order for her, and the waitress would hand me the drink. Britney would walk upstairs to a private restroom to drink it. She’d have a pint glass filled with Jack Daniels and Coke. I hated it, because we had to go up and down those stairs all night so she could drink in secret.

When she asked for a Jack and Coke, we’d give her mostly Coke, with just a dash of Jack on top. She was still crazy, but more manageable. We were essentially the puppeteers managing this poor young lady, trying to save her from herself.”

When Britney was playing at the House of Blues earlier this year an was briefly involved with Howie Day whom she met at rehab Britney had a close call.

“She was, in my opinion, close to an overdose. She was supposed to be performing in concert at Anaheim that night, but she’d been out with this guy and hadn’t come home. We finally found her in The Mondrian hotel in West Hollywood.”

Britney’s security chief found that Day would not let Britney out of the room.

“We finally found the room. We didn’t know if he was armed. I told my partner, ‘Your job is to get Britney. I’ll control the guy. I’m a big guy. I’ll take a shot.’ I’d take a bullet for her. We entered and the room was a mess. Dozens of bottles of hard liquor from the mini-bar were mostly empty.

There were cigarettes, and what appeared to be narcotics next to the bed, straws and a powder that appeared to be cocaine. Across the room was a glass pipe for smoking drugs. He was on the bed in his boxers. Her eyes were huge. She was upset, kept shaking, biting her nails and sweating. She was really high. My partner said she was the worst he’d ever seen.”

On the way home her behavior was weird. She was still fidgeting, wound down the car window and screamed, ‘I’m a rock star’ at passing cars. She talked in weird voices, and was sweating. It was drugs – and she displayed the same behavior at other times in front of the kids. I’ve seen her go to a salon and put on fake acrylic nails, pay for them, and she’ll have bitten them off by the time she comes home.”

Britney apparently likes to drive around with her kids in the car while the paps pursue her.

“She’d put the kids at risk by driving on the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic for no reason at all, along windy roads up in the hills. I was in the car behind, going, ‘Oh my God!’ The kids were in the back seat. She ended up making illegal U-turns, going through red lights. She almost got hit twice on the wrong side of the road. I was sweating.”

Last week, Britney was charged with hit-and-run and driving without a license.

It came as no surprise to Barretto, who was with Britney when she took her California driver’s test earlier this year – and failed.

“We took her to the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) to take her driving test. They took her to a private room, but she didn’t pass. She failed the written test horribly. She got only three answers correct out of 35. She was too intimidated to take the test again. But she kept driving with the kids. She gets stopped by the police, and they make her get out and go over to the passenger side so a friend can drive.She may have a valid license in Louisiana, but I don’t think she has one here. On one occasion she left home driving with Jack Daniels in a Styrofoam cup. Fortunately she wasn’t stopped by the police then.

One morning she asked us to get a private jet to take her to Puerto Rico. It was £30,000, with a £20,000 cancellation fee. That afternoon she was ready to go, but at the last minute said she never asked us to get a jet. She paid the cancellation fee.

She’d driven to the Four Seasons hotel hundreds of times, but one day she got lost. Another time she parked outside a sushi restaurant, then came out and couldn’t find her car, though it hadn’t moved.

She smokes a lot, but one day she opened the door to the green room at one concert and gave me her cigarettes and lighter. She said, ‘Can you take these for me, honey? I’m quitting smoking.’ An hour later she had somebody digging through the trash to get them back.”

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