Britney Spears felt just like the snake she carried out with was going to ‘kill’ her throughout her iconic efficiency in 2001.
The 41-year-old pop star recalled the large python ‘flicking’ its tongue and ‘hissing’ at her as she carried out onstage on the MTV Video Music Awards.
In her upcoming memoir The Woman in Me, she stated she tried her greatest to maintain her head down as she sang I’m a Slave 4 U as a result of she felt like ‘it could kill’ her if she ‘caught its eye’.
Just weeks earlier, Spears revealed she was ‘scared’ of snakes and fewer than enthused about performing with the ‘terrifying’ reptile despite the fact that it stays ‘one in every of [her] favourite performances’ to today.
This comes shortly after she took to Instagram and debuted a brand new purple snake tattoo placed on her decrease again.
She stated she was going to make use of the ‘snake as a prop’ as she sang 2001 hit single I’m a Slave 4 U on stage.
Everything went as deliberate, the Gimme More hitmaker — who lately went viral for enjoying with one other harmful prop after she posted a number of knife dancing movies on-line — recalled till the albino Burmese python named Banana began getting too near her.
‘The plan was for me to sing I’m a Slave 4 U, and we determined I’d use a snake as a prop,’ she wrote in an excerpt obtained by People.
During her efficiency, nevertheless, she stated the snake began getting near her face and hissing at her.
She stated the reptile additionally began ‘flicking’ its tongue close to her face and famous it was ‘terrifying’.
‘It’s grow to be an iconic second in VMAs historical past, however it was much more terrifying than it appeared,’ she defined.
‘All I knew was to look down, as a result of I felt if I seemed up and caught its eye, it could kill me,’ she wrote in her bombshell tell-all.
After getting via the efficiency unscathed, she now revealed what was occurring in her thoughts on the time.
‘In my head I used to be saying, “Just carry out, simply use your legs and carry out”,’ she recalled telling herself.
‘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,’ she wrote.
‘I used to be considering, “Are you f***ing critical proper now? The f***ing godd*** snake’s tongue is flicking out at me. Right. Now.” Finally I bought to the half the place I handed it again, thank God,’ she defined.
The Woman in Me is about for launch and can hit cabinets on October 24.
