Christina Aguilera may be on top of the world now with her coach’s spot on NBC’s hit, The Voice, but the past year has been pretty tough overall on the singer-actress.
Christina’s album latest album, Bionic, flopped by her own sales standards, and ever since, she has been plagued with one national mishap after another. She divorced her husband of five years, forgot the National Anthem lyrics during the Super Bowl and fell down during a Grammy performance.
Aguilera graces the cover of W Magazine and inside she opens up about the events shaping the last year of her life.
On how she handled the problems:
“Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles. I laugh a lot lately. People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.”
“Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles. I laugh a lot lately. People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.”
On her divorce from Jordan Bratman:
“At one time or another, we were both not angels. It got to a point where my life at home was reminding me of my own childhood. I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.”
On the Super Bowl snafu:
“Everything on the field at the Super Bowl was vividly bright, and I was having a moment. I got lost in the emotion of being there and I messed up the lyrics to the song.”
On her reaction to the Super Bowl snafu:
“I went to dinner after the Super Bowl with Matt [Rutler] and I laughed about how I’d made myself into a Trivial Pursuit question: ‘In 2011 what female singer flubbed the lyrics to the national anthem?'”
On Falling at The Grammys:
“I was thinking, Are you kidding me? I’ve always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels. Note to self: Never wear a train onstage. My heel got caught in my train, and if it wasn’t for Jennifer Hudson, who picked me up as I went down, I would have fallen to the floor. When it happened, it was just like, What else, God?! What else?! I threw my hands up in the air and started smiling, because what else could go wrong?”
“I was thinking, Are you kidding me? I’ve always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels. Note to self: Never wear a train onstage. My heel got caught in my train, and if it wasn’t for Jennifer Hudson, who picked me up as I went down, I would have fallen to the floor. When it happened, it was just like, What else, God?! What else?! I threw my hands up in the air and started smiling, because what else could go wrong?”