Pop singer Bebe Rexha was rushed off the stage throughout her live performance in New York on Sunday after she was hit within the face with a fan’s cellphone.
In a video clip shared to social media, Rexha is seen performing in a pink, sparkly corset with matching trousers when a cellphone is hurled from the gang and bounces off the 33-year-old singer’s head.
Rexha, whose actual identify is Bleta Rexha, clutched her face as she turned her again to the viewers and collapsed to her knees.
A number of crew members are then seen rising from the wings to escort Rexha backstage as the gang chanted her identify. Different viewers members shouted “That’s assault” when safety intervened and pulled the person who allegedly threw the cellphone over the stage’s barrier.
Alex Chavez, a fan who shared footage of Rexha’s damage, wrote the incident “ruined” an in any other case “nice present.”
TMZ reported Rexha wanted three stitches to shut the wound on her face.
The cellphone was thrown throughout Rexha’s live performance on the Rooftop at Pier 17 in New York as a part of her Finest F’n Night time of My Life tour. Rexha’s admirers have since condemned the phone-throwing fan on social media and voiced concern for the singer’s well being.
Rexha tried to quell her fan’s anxieties with an replace to Instagram on Monday. Although Rexha wrote “I’m good,” she shared two pictures of herself sporting a brand new black eye and bandages on her eyebrow.
The singer additionally uploaded a brief TikTok video exhibiting off her new shiner. She jokingly sang, “I’m good, yeah, I’m feeling all proper.”
The New York Police Division stated they arrested a 27-year-old man, Nicolas Malvagna, on assault costs for “deliberately” throwing the cellphone at Rexha.
Rexha is way from the one performer to be struck by an object on stage.
Even the world’s greatest stars aren’t resistant to fan-thrown projectiles. Harry Kinds — whose Love on Tour lately turned the tenth-highest-grossing tour of all time — has been travelling the globe for 2 years now and has been struck with a myriad of objects.
Simply this weekend, Kinds, 29, was hit within the head by a pair of sun shades whereas performing a four-night residency at Wembley Stadium in London, England.
In November, Kinds was hit within the eye when a fan threw a handful of Skittles candies onto the stage on the Discussion board in Los Angeles. Like Rexha, the incident impressed mass fan outrage on-line and a name for concertgoers to cease hurling objects at their favorite singers.
In 2004, David Bowie was infamously hit within the eye with a lollipop thrown by a fan whereas acting at a Norwegian music pageant. After stepping again from the microphone, Bowie returned to curse on the fan who threw what would later be often called “love on a stick.”
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