“It was a very sad time, but I was happy to keep her spirit alive in my shows.”
“A lot of times history repeats itself, and you’re either going up or you’re going down,” he said. So regardless of the tough times she was going through, I chose to continue to portray Britney at her best.”Īs Derrick continued to channel Brit-Brit’s electrifying stage presence night after night in Sin City, he often wondered if the embattled pop princess would ever reclaim her throne. It’s my job.’ You know, just like that was her job, that’s what I’m doing. “And that’s why I just had to get in my head, ‘This is what I do. Like, performing as her and being, like, smiling in a schoolgirl outfit and then dancing to ‘I’m a Slave 4 U,’ and doing ‘Toxic’ - it was just, it kind of felt fake,” the Las Vegas headliner told In Touch. I remember feeling like I’m not in a good place. Naturally, he felt the weight of her personal turmoil, which was incessantly documented by the media. It was heavy - especially for Derrick, who had been impersonating Britney since 2003. Not long before she worried fans with her lack of enthusiasm and disoriented look at the 2007 VMAs, a then-25-year-old Britney - who was reportedly battling addiction and an undisclosed mental illness amid a painful custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline - shaved her head, checked into and out of rehab, and attacked a paparazzo’s car with an umbrella all in the same month.Ī post shared by Derrick Barry on at 12:17am PDT Indeed, the Britney Army’s once-fearlessly fierce leader took a particularly hard fall from grace just one decade ago.
And the last thing she needs is someone making fun of her for that time in her life.” While I feel a strong connection to Britney as an entertainer, I will never know what it was like to walk in her shoes. He added, “I’ve been asked to reference her breakdown in my performances before, but I just can’t do it. “I know that by putting positive love out there, and adoration and everything I feel as a fan for Britney, I can only grow as a performer. “I remember watching the performance and thinking to myself, ‘This isn’t Britney.’ And what’s my job? To do Britney like Britney does Britney,” Derrick told us at the inaugural RuPaul’s DragCon NYC on Sunday, Sept.
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