Cameron Diaz breaks down over singing

California - Cameron Diaz has confessed she broke down in tears at the prospect of singing in the Annie remake.

The actress plays Miss Hannigan in the musical reboot - which sees Quvenzhane Wallis playing the titular orphan and Jamie Foxx as the Daddy Warbucks-style character – and admitted thinking about belting out the comedy villain’s musical numbers had her welling up in terror. ‘I cried,’ said Cameron, whose first experience of singing on screen came in a deliberately tone-deaf karaoke scene in 1997?s My Best Friend’s Wedding. ‘In my defence, I had just done a movie in the Bahamas, working at night, flew home that morning, didn’t sleep, and went into singing that very first afternoon. I was emotionally tapped, you know?’ The actress laughed that the second time she cried about having to flex her vocal cords for the film ‘there was no excuse – other than I was completely terrified’.

However, the 42-year-old eventually conquered her fears: ‘I knew that they were going to surround me with the best professionals and teachers, and they did. They helped me to deliver a performance that was worthy of an autotune, so that was great!’