Britney SpearsBritney Spears‘ close friend Sam Lufti has denied he found an apparent suicide note written by the star, calling the story “absolutely 100% not true”.

In Touch Weekly claims that Britney wrote the note just days before the “family custody dispute” at her home earlier this month and her subsequent hospitalisation on a “mental lockdown”.

According to the magazine, Sam found the letter on a bathroom counter at Britney’s Beverly Hills home and told a friend about the contents: “The letter was very sad. It was filled with reasons why she shouldn’t live, included lines from poems about death.”

“She said in it she was sorry for never making her life what everyone else wanted. She mentioned how lonely and unfair life could be, how peaceful death seems and how your mind would finally be at ease.”

“She went on and on about wanting to just rest in peace.”

Britney was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center around midnight on the 3rd January after reportedly refusing to hand over son Jayden following a visitation session during the day. She has since been barred from seeing either of her children until at least the next scheduled custody hearing on 19th February.

In related news, Britney’s ex-husband Kevin Federline has said he thinks there is so much interest in their ongoing family troubles because it makes other people feel normal in comparison.

He told Interview magazine recently, “People put it up on this pedestal when it’s really the same way that everybody else goes through their stuff, you know? It’s not really any different.”

“Even though everything is so publicized and everybody is looking at it, it’s normal for us. I think the infatuation with the whole thing is that watching us go through things makes other people feel normal.”

He added that since his split from the star in November 2006, he has been trying to “create my privacy” to ensure their sons are not unduly affected by their parents’ fame. He added that he generally spends more time as a dad than as a party animal these days and he spends his evenings “usually watching SpongeBob SquarePants, Cars or whatever the kids are into. I’m much more G-rated than anything else these days!”