Even tho Britney Spears tried to do a bit of damage control on her official website by posting her explanatory message yesterday (about a week after her crazy hijinks), it seems that it has come a little too late. The damage has been done, everyone in the free world has gotten a few good looks at her crotch ... and now the damaging stories have started to surface -- the latest allegation is that Britney has been bringing the party favors to all the latest parties:

Britney Spears, who has gone off the deep end this week, is now alleged to be a drug user. In Touch Weekly is reporting that Spears paid a visit to the restroom of a Hollywood restaurant, where the pop star plopped her pursed down on the counter and in front of several witnesses, opened her bag to reveal a bounty of pills inside. "It looked like a pharmacy in there - I have never seen so many pills," a witness said. "There was a bottle of Paxil (an antidepressant) and a bottle of Xanax (for anxiety) that she took out and put on the counter." Wow! That is a bold claim. Maybe this is the reason that Britney seems to have enough energy to go out every single night and stay out until 5 or 6AM? I'm not saying that I necessarily believe these allegations but it would be very sad if this turns out to be true. The problem is that if you want to be seen as a party girl and you party like a party girl then not only do these sorts of stories start to start going around ... but they also begin to become believable. It just sucks ... she was in a position, just a few weeks ago, where she could have reinvented herself as a strong, single mom -- once again, becoming America's Sweetheart and now, according to THIS ABC News report, former fans see her as "trashy, slutty and sickening" and "have no desire to see K-Fed's used goods". Even Bette Midler has gone so far as to label Britney (and her new friend Lindsay Lohan) "wild and woolly sluts'": The singer turned Oscar-nominated actress hit out at the duo who have been repeatedly photographed enjoying a string of wild nights out - missing their underwear. "I've been on the other side to these wild and woolly sluts that we are seeing around our lives these days and I've taken the other side," she said. "I started my life out as pretty wild but I have decided, after much growing and living, that it's time that we got nicer." Talking about the pair's headline-grabbing decision to be snapped minus any underwear, she joked: "I'm wearing underwear, in fact a lot of underwear. In fact I'm wearing all the underwear that those girls are not wearing - at least two bras and several pairs of panties." When asked on the US TV show Extra if she had a message for the American socialites, she replied: "Get a life, get a grip. I mean someone should sit those ladies down." As if that wasn't bad enough, even Courtney Love is chastising Britney: Troubled singer Courtney Love suggested that she should stay at home more to look after her children while former supermodel Janice Dickinson claimed that Britney would be wise to "buckle down and become a parent". Damn, you know it's bad when C. Love and Janice Dickinson (!!!) are talkin' shizz about your parenting skillz. Here's hoping that all of this negative press will knock some sense into our dear Britney and she'll smarten up a bit. If not, I fear her comeback will be over before it has even begun.