Britney Spears says she will “never perform in the US again” in cryptic post promising new UK and Australia dates

Britney Spears has taken to social media to vow she will “never perform in the US again” and suggested that her next public performance could take place in the UK.

In a post shared to Instagram on Thursday (January 8), the Grammy winner, who has not toured since 2018, shared the news alongside a photo of herself sitting on stage next to a white piano. In the post’s caption, she reflected on her time in the spotlight and said she would not return to the stage in America.

“I will never perform in the U.S. again because of extremely sensitive reasons,” Spears wrote, not specifying what had informed that decision. “But I hope to be sitting on a stool with a red rose in my hair, in a bun, performing with my son … in the UK and Australia very soon. He’s a huge star, and I’m so humbled to be in his presence!!! Godspeed, little man!!!”

As yet, Spears has not shared any details about upcoming shows or concerts in the UK and Australia, and no dates are listed on ticket-selling sites.

The ‘Toxic’ singer last performed in the US in October 2018 when she concluded her ‘Piece of Me’ tour in Austin. She was later scheduled to open a second Las Vegas residency, titled ‘Domination’, in 2019, but postponed the shows before largely stepping away from music.

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Spears also opened up about posting videos of herself dancing on Instagram, explaining that the dances “heal things in my body that people have no idea about.”

“Yup and it’s embarrassing sometimes … but I walked through the fire to save my life,” the singer wrote, having returned to the photo sharing app after deleting her account.

Earlier in the caption, Spears shared that she wanted to give the piano seen in the photo to one of her sons. She shares two children, Sean Preston, 20, and Jayden, 19, with ex-husband Kevin Federline.

Last year, in his new memoir You Thought You Knew, Federline claimed (via The New York Times) that he was concerned over Spears’ current “situation,” which he believed was “racing toward something irreversible”, and then accused her of using cocaine during a period when she was breastfeeding.

Spears responded to Federline’s comments in a lengthy post on X/Twitter, saying that the “constant gaslighting” from her ex-husband has been “extremely hurtful and exhausting”.

In a follow-up post, she also implied that Federline was trying to “profit” from her pain. “I 100 percent beg to differ the way he is literally attacking me in his interviews,” she added.

Metro also reported that the deleted Instagram account came after Spears made two posts that left fans concerned. One saw her discuss the 2014 film Maleficent, and say that she thinks she may have suffered brain damage, and went through “a lot” more difficulty than she detailed in her memoir, but had kept it “hidden because its incredibly painful and sad”.

The second allegedly saw her appear on camera with visible bruises and explain that they were there as she “fell down the stairs at my friend’s house”.

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