I've felt this insane sense of anxiety and energy that felt so negative. I'm sick of people touching my hair," the star told the tattoo artist.Įmily echoed Esther's thoughts about Britney's entourage, adding: "It just didn't seem like they cared very much. "I just don't want anybody, anybody touching my head. What I said to her was, 'Do you realise what all the young teenagers are going to want to do tomorrow – shave their hair off to look like you?' She didn't care."
"I thought we could do a comb-over maybe to fix it. "My mom's gonna be pissed," she confided in the hairdresser, who immediately tried to salvage the situation. In an instant, Britney's determination faltered. My phone rang again so, as I'm answering my phone, I realise she went into that other room, sat in that chair and buzzed half her hair off," Esther explained. "I said, 'You don't want to do that, tomorrow is a different day, you'll feel differently tomorrow, let's talk about it'. While the stylist begged her to reconsider, Britney seemed determined to follow through with her plan. When she came back, the starlet had "grabbed a buzzer and she was testing to see how it was going to feel or look to buzz her hair". I felt someone was going to get hurt, for sure, it was crazy."Įsther had to take a call so left Britney sitting by her hairdressing station for a few moments. "And then the minute they heard her going out the side door, I mean, if you've seen my shop, I have gates on both sides, they were climbing the gates trying to get the first picture of her. "They were trying to pile up on top of each other to get a picture and the one bodyguard was actually covering the front door with a cape.
"I thought they were going to kill each other," she later told Entertainment Tonight. She begged them to reopen the salon so she could come in, and arrived a short time later in her SUV while more cameras, fans and paparazzi turned up to watch her every move.īodyguards flanked the crying singer into the salon, where she was greeted by hairdresser Esther Tongnozzi, who was alarmed at the crush of people pursuing Britney. The next evening, Britney placed what would become a seminal phone call to the hair salon on Ventura Boulevard in California's San Fernando Valley.
In early February, she briefly checked in to a drug rehabilitation centre in Antigua, then fled the facility less than a day after arriving. It seemed to be the last straw for the 25-year-old singer, who had counted Sandra as a second mother and was very close to her growing up. Just weeks before Britney took the clippers to her scalp, her beloved aunt Sandra Covington died of ovarian cancer. Only physical and mental exhaustion would see her knocked out enough to get some shut-eye. She'd stopped sleeping properly years before, being prescribed Prozac at the age of 18 but taking it only sporadically. Her behaviour in public seemed erratic and strange, while her performances were criticised for being stilted, robotic and disconnected. The pop princess had hit the self-destruct button after finding fame nine years previously with …Baby One More Time and was in the midst of a downward spiral into depression and alleged drug use as photo after photo showed her out partying looking sloppy-drunk while her young sons were at home with their dad.īut why did she do it? Britney seemed to have everything – millions of dollars in the bank, hundreds of thousands of fans who loved her, and her boys – Jayden and Sean – who she shared with estranged husband Kevin Federline.īut behind the scenes, her life was falling apart. Britney Spears has huge grin on date with boyfriend Sam Asghari amid family feudīritney Spears' rebellious head-shaving incident in 2007 was one of the seminal moments in Noughties pop culture.
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