Much as you might like to avert your eyes from the ongoing disintegration of Britney Spears, the story keeps developing new aspects so bizarre that you just can’t look away. Here are a few more gory details, couresy of News of the World. Now, consider the source here. Odds are that the next story is a round-up of the latest sasquatch sightings, complete with a list of starlets who are rumored to be carrying Bigfoot’s love child. But, if you can trust News of the World:

• Brit was strip-searched when she checked into the Promises Clinic, because the staff thought she might be concealing a stash of cocaine.
• No cocaine was discovered. However, Britney was carrying a “Death List” of people her life would be better off without, including various paparazzi (which sounds sane enough) and K-Fed (not so sane).
• Britney also believes her thoughts are being recorded and checks her room and her belongings every morning for listening devices. Okay, that’s just freakin’ nuts.
• Meanwhile, K-Fed has postponed the custody hearings indefinitely. He and the kids have visited Britney twice at the clinic, and he’s suggesting that he and Britney might get back together, provided she cleans up her act and stops acting like such a feces-flinging madwoman.

Believe it or not, there’s much, much more. So now K-Fed’s morphing into a halfway decent guy, while Britney is some horrible cross between Courtney Love and Richard Nixon. (To be fair, Nixon was an intelligent vengeful paranoid. He didn’t need any damn list to remind him who his enemies were, although I can easily believe Britney might need a mental prop like that.) Some of you youngsters probably think this is normal. But me, I’m old enough to remember a time when Brit was hot, Christina was skanky, and K-Fed was a useless wanker. Now K-Fed is a rock of commitment, Christina is channeling the Andrews Sisters, and Britney is one step away from getting tied to the bed like Linda Blair in The Exorcist. The world I grew up in back in 2004 is dead.