Nicki Minaj is detailing her MTV Video Music Awards wardrobe malfunction, which saw her holding her black dress into place as she performed “Bang Bang” with Jessie J and Ariana Grande directly following her performance of “Anaconda.”
While on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Minaj said she was “butt a—naked” underneath the black dress.
“I didn’t have any underwear on — no underwear, no bra — ’cause I had just taken off the ‘Anaconda’ outfit,” she told DeGeneres, MTV News reports.
She also said she had “40 or 50 seconds” to change and she ultimately did not make the cut. “Right there I thought I died,” she said when it was time to walk out.
“Originally I was going to have a skirt wrapped around the green ['Anaconda' performance two-piece], but then when I realized that Jessie and Ariana were wearing black-and-white, I didn’t want to ruin the shot with me wearing a green bra and them wearing black-and-white,” she said.
After the event, it was rumored she had staged the malfunction.
Watch her explain it below:
Watch DeGeneres and Minaj in a remixed “Anaconda” video:
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