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On the bright, sunny wing of the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital that has been home to Britney Spears since she was admitted on Jan. 31, the singer is allowed to wear her own clothes – and, like others at the 136-bed unit on the UCLA campus – make use of a common kitchen to fix a snack and an open-air deck to grab a smoke. She is not permitted to use her cell phone – but if she can come up with the spare change, she has access to a pay phone on the floor. And so it was that on Super Bowl Sunday she called her father, Jamie, who was working as a caterer at a party, to ask him to visit her. In court papers filed in his successful bid to temporarily take over his daughter's affairs, Spears says he arrived at the hospital to find her lying in bed. He leaned over to kiss her, but she turned her head away.
"I love you," he told her. "No, you don't," Britney responded. She got out of bed and said, "The doctor told me you are keeping me in here."
When her father denied it, she said, "Somebody's lying. You put me in here." After a nurse assured her that it was her doctors, not her dad, who had committed her, she said, "Come on, Daddy. Let's get out of here. Take my hand and let's walk out of here together."
"I wish I could," he told her. "But I can't."
