Britney Spears On The Loose    ·    February 21st, 2007

Usmagazine.com has confirmed that Britney Spears has left Promises Malibu Treatment Center
less than 24 hours after checking in and spent early Wednesday afternoon meeting with an attorney.

This is the second time the 25-year-old pop star has re-left rehab in the last week. A rep for Spears couldn’t be reached to comment on why Spears has left.

We spotted Spears earlier today at the law offices of Tarlow & Berk, the high-powered lawyers who represented Mel Gibson in last year’s DUI case. Our source says outside the office Britney was sitting in the passenger’s seat of a blue Mercedes talking intensely on her cell phone while her cousin, Allie Sims, sobbed.

An eyewitness says, “Brit smoked cigarettes and talked on the phone while Allie had tears streaming down her face. Brit just has a blank look on her face.”

At about 2 p.m. PST Usmagazine.com was there as Spears left the law office and was driven down L.A.’s Sunset Strip and taken to the Hotel Bel Air.

A source close to the Spears family tells us that the pop idol’s family is concerned. “Britney has worn the same brown jeans since Sunday, because she has no credit cards or cash. She is basically on the run at
the moment.

On February 15, Spears checked herself into Crossroads Centre — a treatment facility founded by musician Eric Clapton — only to check out the following day.

Extra reports that Spears tried to get into a tattoo parlor before going home but it was closed.

If true, this marks the second time the singer has visited a tattoo parlor in less than a week.

On Friday (after spontaneously shaving her head) she hit Body & Soul Tattoo parlor in Sherman Oaks, California, and got inked with a pink, black and white cross on her hip and pink and red lips on her wrist.

What did Britney’s manager privately tell our pal Ryan Seacrest about her meltdown? Listen here for the lowdown.