Queen Latifah has become the latest celebrity to offer troubled Britney Spears a retreat, urging the fallen pop star to go home with her.

The Chicago star has been watching Spears’ problems unfold in recent months and she feels compelled to offer the singer her help and support.

This comes a day after Spears’ antics outside a crucial Los Angeles custody hearing cost the star all her visitation rights with sons Sean Preston and Jayden James for another month.

The Los Angeles Commissioner overseeing Spears’ custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline has ruled the singer will have to wait until the next hearing on 19 February (08) to fight for access to her kids after she failed to actually attend the hearing on Monday (14Jan08).

And Latifah, real name Dana Owens, isn’t surprised that so many celebrities are offering Spears help, while others appear to be chiding and poking fun.

She says, "A lot of us can relate to each other. Look how many people just want to take Britney home and give her a place to sleep and rest and talk her down.

"Everybody wants to help this girl… We understand the pressures we deal with and realize up underneath all that star stuff we’re normal people with normal problems.

"We’d rather support each other than tear each other down."