Britney Spears sustained an injury falling down a set of stairs.
The “Oops! I Did It Again” star disclosed details of the injury on Saturday in one of the videos she’s become infamous for, in which she dances, twirls, and poses in a dimly lit room of her home.
“Psss I fell down the stairs at my friend’s house… it was horrible,” she wrote, while in the video, Spears repeatedly clasps her hands in a gesture of prayer and walks toward the camera to Robin Thicke’s 2006 single “Lost Without U.” The 43-year-old pop icon also smiled while she struck a series of poses with visible bandages on her right knee, leg, and hands, explaining further, “It snaps out now and then, not sure if it’s broken but for now it’s snapped in !!! Thank u god.”
“My boys had to leave and go back to Maui,” Spears wrote at the start of the caption of Saturday’s video, in reference to her sons, Sean Preston, 19, and Jayden James, 18. “This is the way I express myself and pray through art… father who art in heaven… I’m not here for concern or pity, I just want to be a good woman and be better… and I do have wonderful support, so have a brilliant day !!!”
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative for Spears.
Spears has been sharing dancing videos on her Instagram account that have delighted some fans and worried others for at least five years. The “Lucky” megastar retreated from the spotlight in 2019, when she announced an indefinite cancellation of her Las Vegas residency and shortly thereafter entered a psychiatric facility.
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After a shake-up in the leadership of her controversial conservatorship, fans began to grow concerned for the musician who virtually disappeared from public life, but started frequently posting dancing videos to her Instagram, often with wild, semi-coherent captions.
“For those of you who choose to criticize my dancing videos… look I’m not gonna be performing on any stages anytime soon with my dad handling what I wear, say, do, or think,” Spears wrote in a 2021 post, referencing her father Jamie Spears, who was officially replaced as the authority over her conservatorship that same year.
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Spears is no stranger to injuries, having executed highly complex choreography on camera and on stage for the better part of the past three decades. Spears suffered a widely publicized knee injury in 2004, spawning hundreds of paparazzi photos of the singer trekking around Los Angeles with the help of crutches and leading to an unheard of performing hiatus for the hyper-productive pop star.
“Going & going & going is all I’ve ever known since I was 15 years old,” she wrote in a message to fans on her website at the time. “It’s amazing what advisors will push you to do, even if it means taking a naive, young, blonde girl & putting her on the cover of every magazine… I want to enjoy all of the simple things that I missed over the past few years due to working way too much.”
