Memo to Brit-Brit: When you tell a court of law you’re too sick to be deposed in your child-custody case, you’d better actually be sick. Or at least fake it a little.

Make sure the paparazzi see someone delivering chicken soup. Leak a rumor to Page Six that you’ve fallen and you can’t get up. Send an assistant out for some Nyquil.

Here’s what you shouldn’t do. Don’t expose yourself as a complete fraud by being spotted at the Four Seasons on the same evening. Don’t drive around Los Angeles until 2:00 in the morning. And don’t stop to fill your tank at the gas station where the TMZ video crew hangs out for coffee:

Cameras caught the popwreck and an assistant leaving her home away from home, the Four Seasons, for her other home away from home — a gas station — last night. Brit didn’t answer when we asked why she missed her extremely important deposition that morning, saying little more than, “It’s cold, y’all.”

MSNBC’s “The Scoop” adds:

[A]ccording to her friends, we can expect her so-called illness to rear its ugly head again — relapses that will happen to coincide with future court dates.

“Britney feels like this is a perfectly acceptable thing to do,” said a source close to Spears. “She did feel sick, but more than anything, she felt like she didn’t have to do something just because she was told.”

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