Love 'can relate to Spears' troubles'

Courtney Love has admitted that she can relate to Britney Spears' recent troubles.

Pictures of Spears strapped to a gurney earlier his month echo those taken of the Hole singer as she was handcuffed to a stretcher before being hospitalised in 2004.

She told Access Hollywood: "You know, I was in rehab, what was that, three-and-a-half years ago now? And it worked... I know the exactitudes of what's going on, having been there."

She added: "Here is what's gonna happen if she doesn't get help - something very, very bad is gonna happen. Marilyn Monroe was strapped to a gurney too, but other than me and Britney, no one else has ever been strapped to a gurney."

The 43-year-old claimed that she had once tried to persuade Lindsay Lohan to stay off drugs, saying: "I went up to Lohan's room one time and there was a show on called 101 Celebrity Oops and I am like every other one you know, boobs out, legs everywhere throwing s*** at Madonna.... I'm like Lindsay, ‘Look! Drugs are bad!'"