The NSFW shows in 2004 included a segment in which the 'Toxic' hitmaker mimed touching herself to her song 'Touch of My Hand' while wearing a nude bodysuit in a bathtub.
- Oct 25, 2023
AceShowbiz - Britney Spears has branded her crowd-pleasing "Onyx Hotel Tour" too "sexual." The raunchy shows in 2004 included a segment in which the "Toxic" hitmaker mimed touching herself to her song "Touch of My Hand" while wearing a nude bodysuit in a bathtub.
They came two years after she broke up with Justin Timberlake and says she hated the content so much she prayed to break a bone so she wouldn't have to carry on the shows. Britney says in her new memoir "The Woman in Me" about her hatred of the tour, "It was too sexual, for a start… rough."
The 41-year-old pop star adds she agreed to push boundaries with her stage show at the time as "Cry Me a River" singer Justin had left her reeling and "embarrassed (her) publicly" by discussing their sex life in interviews and claiming she cheated on him. She said, "My rebuttal onstage was to kind of go there a little bit,. But it was absolutely horrible. I hated it in the moment."
"I felt like I'd been manipulated into going straight back to work after the breakup with Justin, because it was all I knew," she continued. "The Onyx tour was a mistake. But in my mind I thought I should just do what I was supposed to do, which was work."
Britney also brands the tour "stupid" in her book and confesses to praying "every night" that she would break a bone so she could cancel the remaining concerts. The singer's grim desire was realized when she fell and injured her knee on the set of her "Outrageous" music video, forcing her to pull the plug on the last two months of the "Onyx" tour.
Even though Britney says she hated the gigs, her fans loved the tour, which was also critically acclaimed. The shows, which were Britney's fifth tour, featured nearly 24 of the performer's greatest hits including "…Baby One More Time" and "I'm a Slave 4 U".
