Britney rehabs in Miami sun

By Stone Martindale Feb 17, 2007, 7:32 GMT

Britney Spears (C) watches the Baby Phat show during the 2007 fashion week in New York, Friday 02 February 2007. EPA/JASON SZENES

After a week that included a less than kind tell all from a short lived recent boyfriend, old beau Justin Timberlake essentially calling her behavior out on stage at the BRIT's, and a Web post from one of her employees urging her to get help, it was widely reported that Britney Spears had called UNCLE and checked herself into rehab. Not so fast.

Leslie Sloane Zelnick, Spears' publicist, tells Access Hollywood that several reports out Friday are not true.

Spears was reportedly seen leaving New York City earlier this week on a private jet with her two sons headed for Miami. People magazine then reported that Britney  checked into a rehab facility, and then abruptly checked out.

People claimed that Spears checked herself into Eric Clapton's Crossroads Centre in Antigua "two or three days ago" but left after just one day and headed to Florida, according to their unnamed source.

As we reported earlier, an e-mail from Felicia Culotta, an assistant to Spears, said the 25-year-old needs to get it together because she's headed for "rock bottom" and was posted publicly on an Internet gossip blog.

"I cherish ALL the incredible opportunities that came my way thru my job with Britney and am crushed/saddened/heart sick by the way her life is unfolding," says the e-mail, posted this week on ThatOtherBlog, a gossip blog on the Hollywood.com Web site.

The e-mail, addressed to "Ruben," was sent in response to an editorial "Why Britney Is Asking for It," according to the blog.

"I want you to know Ruben that WE (as in her Family and nearest and dearest -- ALL of whom are not on the payroll anymore!!) are doing EVERYTHING in our power to get help for Britney," writes Culotta, who says she worked for Spears for nearly 10 years, reported Access Hollywood.