Britney Spears' disturbed mental state may have worsened with reports of an attempted suicide and other bizarre behaviour while in rehab.
Tabloid newspapers have reported Spears as claiming to be "the Antichrist", writing 666 on her shaved head, and running uncontrolled through the Promises Clinic in Malibu.
The News of the World reports that the singer narrowly escaped injury
Later that night she tried to kill herself [with a bedsheet]," a source told the newspaper. "Paramedics were called, but luckily she was unhurt."
After the near-suicide, the pop-star reportedly called ex-husband Kevin Federline on the phone and begged him to father another child with her.
"Britney has realised what a rock Kevin has been to her, and how out of control she has acted recently," a source at the clinic said.
"She has been talking to Kevin every night for hours on the phone, telling him she still loves him."
"She just wants to be with him again, and thinks having another baby will seal their marriage."
Kevin Federline, who already has two sons with Spears, has been spotted visiting the singer at the clinic several times since she checked in.
But despite his support, the 25-year-old pop star still seems to be in the grips of a mental breakdown.
"The clinic people just didn't know what to do. Then she started screaming, ‘I'm a fake! I'm a fake!' It must have been really frightening," a friend was reported as telling The News of the World.
Other rumours of Spears' attempts at self-harm emerged in US tabloids.
In the hours after shaving her head, a distraught Spears tried to take her own life by walking into traffic, The National Enquirer reported.
Britney was saved at the last second by one of her staff.
A short time later she was rushed to hospital — as was widely reported — after what may have been an overdose of tranquillizers.
