On 19 December 2023, Britney Spears revealed the aftermath of the fire that she unintentionally set in April 2020, which resulted in the complete destruction of her home gym.
The 42-year-old music legend posted a photo of her scorched gym equipment in her Los Angeles mansion on Instagram on Tuesday morning. 3 years ago, she had informed her fans that the devastating fire was a complete accident.
“Reflecting back remembering when I burnt the gym down in 2020,” is the caption for the photo, which she posted to her 42.7 million Instagram followers on Tuesday. The floor with various dumbbells, kettlebells, weights, treadmills, spin bikes and other exercise equipment are all burned and covered in ash as seen in the picture of the gym.
Spears’ response to the accident in 2020 was posted on social media: “Yes …. I burnt it down. I walked past the door to the gym and flames, BOOM !!!!!! By the Grace of God the alarm went off after that and yippy hoorah nobody got hurt. Unfortunately, now I have only two pieces of equipment left lol and a one-sided mirror gym!!!!! But it could be much worse so I’m grateful. Pssss I like working out better outside anyways!!!!”
History with Fire Accidents
At the time, along with a video showing the damage caused by the fire, she also informed her fans that “I haven’t been here in for like six months because I burned my gym down, unfortunately. I had two candles and … yeah, one thing led to another and I burned it down.”
Spears has a history of candle-related mishaps. In 2002, for example, People magazine reported that the pop diva nearly set her New York City holiday apartment on fire after unintentionally leaving a candle lit while out shopping.
Citing another incident, the story also claims that Britney’s candle obsession had caused another earlier fire in the family’s Louisiana home, as revealed by her mother Lynne Spears.
Who is Britney Spears?
Britney Jean Spears is a legendary American singer who is often referred to as the “Princess of Pop”. She is recognized for having had an impact on the resurgence of adolescent pop in the late 1990s and early 2000s with her two studio albums titled ‘…Baby One More Time’ (1999) and ‘Oops!… I Did It Again’ (2000).
Spears has sold over 150 million records worldwide with the mentioned albums being two of the best-selling albums in history. She is heavily renowned for being the best-selling teenage artist as well as one of the world’s best-selling music artists of all time.
A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Grammy Award, fifteen Guinness World Records, six MTV Video Music Awards, seven Billboard Music Awards (including the Millennium Award), and the first-ever Radio Disney Icon Award are just a few of the many honors and recognitions she has received.
She won the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award for her intricately choreographed videos and was ranked by Billboard as the eighth-biggest artist of the 2000s. She has six No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 and five No. 1 singles on the US Billboard Hot 100: “…Baby One More Time”, “Womanizer”, “3”, “Hold It Against Me”, and “S&M (Remix)”.
2019 saw increased media coverage of Spears’s highly personal legal struggle with conservatorship, which led to the #FreeBritney movement amongst her millions of fans. Following her public statement, in which she accused her family and management team of abuse, the conservatorship was terminated in 2021.
