THE Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky once said that art imitates life, then life will imitate art, then life will find its very meaning from the arts.

The latest chapter in the Britney Spears drama recalls these words, writes Ariadne Zanella.

Aerial footage from a local television station shows Spears being wheeled out in a stretcher to an ambulance, surrounded by police cars and hordes of paparazzi.

It’s an eerily familiar scene.

Her music video clip Everytime, produced by David LaChapelle, shows ambulance staff taking Spears’s body out in a stretcher, surrounded by police and hordes of paparazzi.

Compare the scenes for yourself:

News video: Britney Spears rushed to hospital

Everytime music video clip: