Britney Spears are hitting out at reports that the troubled singer is suicidal after losing custody of her boys to ex-husband Kevin Federline.

A pal tells Heat Magazine:

‘This notion of suicide is ridiculous. Brit isn’t thinking along those lines. There’s no way Britney would do anything to harm herself intentionally right now. She called her psychiatrist and spoke at length about how she felt. She was told that she needs to rationalise the process.’

‘If I harm myself, Kevin wins.’ And the Toxic singer, who releases new album Blackout next month, is prepared to put looking after Sean Preston and Jayden James on hold to resurrect her flagging pop career.’

‘She knows she can’t fully focus on them right now as she has a heavy schedule coming up and she needs to work some issues out. She feels that because they’re so young they won’t get hurt anyway.’