Britney Spears thought Onyx Lodge Tour was ‘silly,’ ‘sexual’

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By Nicholas Hautman

She simply wished to take a look at.

Britney Spears admits in her new memoir that she had no real interest in her famed Onyx Lodge Tour — regardless of followers believing it was one in all her greatest dwell outings.

“It was too sexual, for a begin,” the pop star writes in “The Lady in Me,” describing the 2004 present as “tough.”

Spears explains that she pushed the envelope on the time as a result of her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake had “embarrassed [her] publicly” two years prior by discussing their intercourse life in interviews and claiming she cheated on him.

“My rebuttal onstage was to form of go there a bit bit,” she shares. “Nevertheless it was completely horrible. I hated it within the second.”

In truth, the “Poisonous” singer, 41, calls the tour “silly” and confesses to praying “each night time” that she would break a bone so she might cancel the remaining live shows.

Spears’ want got here true when she fell and injured her knee on the set of her “Outrageous” music video, forcing her to drag the plug on the final two months of the Onyx Lodge Tour.

Regardless of needing surgical procedure, the “Crossroads” star was capable of breathe a sigh of aid.

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“I felt like I’d been manipulated into going straight again to work after the breakup with Justin, as a result of it was all I knew,” she writes in her ebook, which hit shops Tuesday.

“The Onyx tour was a mistake. However in my thoughts I assumed I ought to simply do what I used to be imagined to do, which was work.”

Though Spears was not a fan, her boundary-pushing tour was well-received by followers and critics alike.

The present featured practically two dozen of the entertainer’s best hits, together with “…Child One Extra Time” and “I’m a Slave 4 U.” It additionally included a phase wherein she mimed masturbation to her tune “Contact of My Hand” whereas sporting a nude bodysuit in a bath.

Followers who have been unable to attain tickets to the provocative spectacle have been capable of watch from house when its Miami cease aired dwell on Showtime. Spears additionally included behind the scenes footage in her and her ex-husband Kevin Federline’s actuality present, “Chaotic.”