Britney Spears was 'scared' and 'crying' after she smelled weed backstage during a tour stop: 'I will fail a drug test. I won't see my boys'
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Libby Torres
Sep 26, 2021, 01:07 IST
Britney Spears performing during the "Piece of Me" tour in 2018.
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Britney Spears was "scared" and "crying" when she smelled weed during her "Circus" tour.
According to "Controlling Britney Spears," she was scared she wouldn't be able to see her kids.
Former wardrobe head Tish Yates said that Spears "bolted" after smelling the weed smoke.
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Britney Spears was terrified she'd fail a drug test and be unable to see her children after smelling weed smoke during a tour stop, according to the new documentary "The New York Times Presents: Controlling Britney Spears."
Tish Yates, the head of wardrobe for the 2009 "Circus" tour, remembered that Spears, like many other artists, would be put into a road case and wheeled out to the stage, so that she wouldn't have to walk past thousands of fans.
But on her way to the stage this particular night, Yates said, Spears became distressed after smelling weed.
"She is distressed. She is upset," Yates recalled in the documentary. "She's yelling, 'It smells like pot. It smells like pot. I can't breathe this. I cannot breathe is. I will fail a drug test. I won't see my boys.'"
"And she bolted. She was running trying to get back to her dressing room. She was crying. She was screaming," the "Circus" wardrobe head said.
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"The level of how she was scared really opened my eyes," Yates continued. "She's crying and the show goes on."
Spears has since spoken out about the "abusive" conservatorship, and a New York Times documentary from earlier this year (titled "Framing Britney Spears") shed even more light on the controversial arrangement.
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