Britney Spears Says VMAs Snake Hissed at Her Throughout Iconic Efficiency

• Britney Spears says the snake she carried out with on the 2001 MTV VMAs hissed at her.
• Fans did not catch the second on TV, however Spears says she was terrified.
• “The goddamn snake’s tongue is flicking out at me,” she writes in her memoir, “The Woman In Me.”

Britney Spears could have appeared fully in her ingredient onstage on the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards, but it surely seems, that wasn’t fully the case.

In her new memoir, “The Woman In Me,” revealed on Tuesday, Spears says that what viewers did not see was that the snake she had round her shoulders hissed at her throughout her efficiency of “I’m a Slave 4 U.”

“What no person 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 at me,” writes the singer. “You did not see that shot on the TV, however in actual life? I used to be considering, ‘Are you fucking severe proper now? The fucking goddamn snake’s tongue is flicking out at me. Right. Now.’ Finally, I acquired to the half the place I handed it again, thank God.”

Spears was already apprehensive about performing with the 7-foot albino Burmese python going into the efficiency.

The “Toxic” singer remembers rehearsing with the python in Manhattan, New York, within the days earlier than the VMAs, and worrying about its measurement.

“The lady who handed it over was even smaller than me — she seemed so young, and she or he was very tiny, with blond hair,” writes Spears. “I could not consider they did not have some massive man in cost — I keep in mind considering, ‘You’re letting us two little munchkins deal with this big snake…?'”

“To be trustworthy, I used to be just a little scared — that snake was an enormous animal, yellow and white, crinkly, gross-looking,” she continues.

Although Spears managed to get by way of the rehearsals simply high-quality, when it got here to the occasion itself, she says her nerves kicked in.

“Once once more the little munchkin got here to me and handed me that massive snake, and all I knew was to look down, as a result of I felt if I seemed up and caught its eye, it might kill me. In my head, I used to be saying, ‘Just carry out, simply use your legs and carry out,'” the singer writes in her memoir.

In “The Woman In Me,” Spears additionally talks about an abortion she had throughout her relationship with Justin Timberlake, and the time she was grounded after taking her masks off on the seaside through the COVID-19 pandemic.