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Former pop princess Britney Spears may be out of rehab but it seems the treatment centre did nothing to curb the singer's erratic behaviour.
Filmed at a tanning salon in Hollywood yesterday afternoon, Spears took a cameraman aside and filmed a special message for the paparazzi.
The footage, which is available on x17online.com, shows a sunglass-clad Spears speaking in a faux-Los Angeles accent.
During the bizarre segment, Spears speaks directly to the camera and says: "I just really, like wanna talk, and just say, like how nice our world is. Like it is so nice.
"Oh my god, like the other day, I saw like this magazine, and I looked at it and it said like I was pregnant, and I looked at it and I went up to my Mom, and I was like 'oh my god'...
"Always believe everything you read, everybody. Because I am. I really am pregnant.
"And then I went to like this person, and they saw that on USA Today I was drinking a lot. And it was so true. It was so true. Just always believe what you read.
"It so cool how great and nice our world is.
Compounding the strangeness of the situation was the fact Spears filmed the segment not once, but twice, insisting on a re-shoot.
- NZHERALD STAFF