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Britney Spears is revisssssiting her wild 2001 VMAs performance, which featured her holding a real-life albino Burmese python around her neck while singing “I’m A Slave 4 U,” in her new memoir The Woman In Me. However, it turns out the snake might not have been a fan of the spotlight — or Spears.
The pop star reveals that while she was singing, “the snake brought its head right around” to her face and “started hissing at [her].”
“You didn’t see that shot on the TV, but in real life? I was thinking, ‘Are you fucking serious right now? The fucking goddamn snake’s tongue is flicking out at me. Right. Now,'” Spears writes, per Insider. “Finally, I got to the part where I handed it back, thank God.”
She notes that the girl who handed her the snake “was even smaller” than her and that she “couldn’t believe they didn’t have some big guy in charge.”
“I remember thinking, ‘You’re letting us two little munchkins handle this huge snake…?'” she recalls. “To be honest, I was a little scared — that snake was a huge animal, yellow and white, crinkly, gross-looking.”
“Once again the little munchkin came to me and handed me that huge snake, and all I knew was to look down, because I felt if I looked up and caught its eye, it would kill me,” she pens. “In my head, I was saying, ‘Just perform, just use your legs and perform.'”
It was later revealed that Doc Antle of Tiger King fame was the animal handler during Spears’ performance, per People. According to the outlet, the animal handler, who was indicted on animal cruelty and wildlife trafficking charges following the release of the Netflix docuseries, was in the cage that Spears that she began the number in, along with a liger (a lion and tiger hybrid) .
Earlier this month, Antle was “convicted of illegally purchasing endangered lion cubs in Frederick County for display and profit at his South Carolina zoo business” per a news release from the Attorney General of Virginia.
The Woman In Me was officially released today.
