Britney Spears manifested knee injury to avoid something ‘stupid’

Britney Spears hated her 2004 Onyx Hotel Tour so much that she prayed “every night” that she would break her bones so she wouldn’t have to perform, per Page Six.

In her recent memoir, The Woman in Me, released Tuesday, the Princess of Pop detailed how she finally had her prayers answered when she fell and sustained a knee injury twice – once while onstage and then again while on the set of her Outrageous music video.

The back-to-back injuries forced her to pull the plug on the last two months of the tour.

Even though the iconic performer ended up needing arthroscopic surgery for the injury, she recalled feeling relieved that she didn’t have to perform anymore.

The confession from Spears, 41, came as a shock to the Britney Army as the Onyx Hotel Tour was a fan-favourite, featuring some of her greatest hits to date such as Baby One More Time and I’m a Slave 4 U.

However, the Toxic songstress remembers the tour in a completely different light, calling it 'rough, stupid, too sexual," and a downright 'mistake.'

"It was absolutely horrible. I hated it in the moment," she painfully recalled.

In fact, Spears felt 'manipulated' into jumping back into work after her public breakup when Justin Timberlake, who had previously "embarrassed [her in] public" after their contentious breakup in 2002, was discussing their intimate life and accusing her of cheating.

However, the Grammy-winning songstress bit the bullet because she felt at the time that work was “all [she] knew” and all she was “supposed to do.”