Britney Spears With ‘Only Friend’ Adnan Ghalib

The Sun reports Britney Spears has been hiding out with her “only friend in the world” Adnan Ghalib and three of his fellow paparazzi pals in a rented Hollywood mansion after being released from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Saturday. “Britney is on the edge,” source close to a long-time pal (Who’s long-time pal? The Sun doesn’t say) explained. “It’s worrying - and ironic - that the only person she feels she can turn to is a paparazzo. It’s like the lamb going to stay with the wolfpack. Britney knows Adnan because he has followed her relentlessly for months. Her family are astonished a photographer is the person Britney turns to when she needs to step out of the media storm. She seems to think he’s her only friend in the world. They fear she has lost her grip on reality so much that she feels her only friends are the paparazzi.”

Meanwhile, the British tab gathered more details on Ghalib, who grew up in the Small Heath suburb of Birmingham with his devout Muslim parents and two sisters. The 35-year-old, who is separated from his wife, left Britain to pursue a career in America in 1996. “Adnan was a charmer and had a real drive to get on in the world,” a friend said. “But everyone is gobsmacked he’s with Britney.”