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The plan was for me to make use of a snake as a prop
(Web Desk) – In an unique excerpt from her upcoming memoir ‘The Woman in Me,’ the pop icon writes about how her legendary MTV efficiency was “even more terrifying than it appeared”
In an excerpt shared with PEOPLE from her upcoming memoir, The Woman in Me, Spears, 41, writes about one in every of her most legendary dwell moments: when she carried out “I’m a Slave 4 U” with an albino Burmese python named Banana wrapped round her shoulders on the MTV Video Music Awards.
“The plan was for me to sing ‘I’m a Slave 4 U,’ and we decided I would use a snake as a prop. It’s become an iconic moment in VMAs history, but it was even more terrifying than it appeared,” Spears writes. “All I knew was to look down, because I felt if I looked up and caught its eye, it would kill me.”
Spears survived the efficiency and is now revealing what she was happening in her thoughts on the time.
“In my head I used to be saying, Just carry out, simply use your legs and carry out. But what no one is aware of is that as I used to be singing, the snake introduced its head proper round to my face, proper as much as me, and began hissing,” Spears writes. “I used to be considering, Are you f—ing severe proper now? The f—ing goddamn snake’s tongue is flicking out at me. Right. Now. Finally, I received to the half the place I handed it again, thank God.”
The “Lucky” singer additionally opened up in regards to the reptilian scare on Instagram again in September, when she shared a clip of the efficiency and revealed simply “how scared” she was singing with a dwell python by her aspect.
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