Britney Spears was arrested in Southern California on Wednesday night, according to Ventura County jail records.
Spears, 44, was arrested by California Highway Patrol around 9:30 p.m. PT Wednesday night and released Thursday, according to the records. The records do not indicate why she was arrested.
TMZ was first to report Spears’ arrest.
A representative for Spears did not immediately return an NBC News request for comment.
Her arrest follows a flood of videos Spears has posted to her Instagram account in recent years, with the majority of them showing her dancing alone in her Thousand Oaks, California home. The seemingly never-ending stream of videos and lengthy social media diary entries have been widely mocked online, with some users expressing concern for the pop star’s mental health.
Spears’ Instagram account appeared to be taken down as of Thursday morning.
Her arrest also comes half a decade after a judge freed her from a controversial conservatorship
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