Britney Spears says 2001 VMAs performance with Burmese python was ‘terrifying’

Singer Britney Spears is releasing the memoir The Woman In Me (Ian West/PA)

Britney Spears has said her 2001 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) performance with a Burmese python was “even more terrifying than it appeared”.

The American singer has written about the experience in her new memoir, The Woman In Me, which will be published this month and is billed as a “brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith and hope”.