Before Nicki Minaj made it big, she had no idea what fame would entail.
In the trailer for her upcoming MTV documentary My Time Again, the 32-year-old rapper says that "until you are in it [the spotlight], you really can't wrap your brain around it."
Up-and-coming Nicki, for example, probably didn't see boa constrictor bites as a foreseeable problem in her future, but during a rehearsal for the 2014 MTV VMAs this past August, that's exactly what she encountered.
In the clip, we see the "Anaconda" rapper's visual shock when she learns that one of her backup dancers was bitten by the snake. "Oh my, god," she exclaims. "She got bit?!"
Oh, she got bit, and as the trailer shows, it drew blood! But as Nicki's knows the show must always go on, and it did! (Fortunately, both the dancer and the snake incurred no substantial harm, and an alternate boa constrictor was used in the live performance."
Nicki's got a knack for dealing with the unexpected! "When I'm faced with crazy adversities," she says, pausing before snapping her fingers, '"I turn on a switch that I don't even know I have sometimes."
In other words, she works with what she's got. Of course, this is nothing new for the star though--she's always been resourceful. "When I was a waitress, we had to steal bread and eat that," she recalls.
She's a regular ol' Jean Valjean! These tests of character shave only served to make her stronger, too.
Nicki Minaj: My Time Again premieres Sunday, Jan. 18 on MTV.