Global Courant
Sunday probably wasn’t the best night of singer Bebe Rexha’s life, as her Best F*n Night of My Life tour stop, at New York’s Pier 17, was cut short after an audience member pointed a cell phone at the performer’s face. hurled.
Video captured the moment when the device whipped through the air and hit Rexha in the head, sending her to her knees before being helped off stage.
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The I’m Good (Blue) and Meant to Be singer assured fans she was fine in an Instagram post on Monday, revealing a blackened left eye with a bandage over her eyebrow.
The 33-year-old’s mother, Bukurije Rexha, Reportedly told the media that her daughter needed three stitches.
A 27-year-old New Jersey man was awaiting arraignment Monday after being arrested for assault. There was no immediate information on whether he had a lawyer to comment on the allegation.
Separate video shared from the concert appears to show security pulling a man from the crowd. CBC News cannot independently verify the footage or whether the arrested man is the one seen in the video.
Stars struck
Rexha is far from the only entertainer who has had to deal with concertgoers disrupting their performances by firing projectiles at the stage.
Singer Harry Styles was lighthearted about having phones thrown at him at concerts in 2018 phone calls And taking selfies before returning the devices to their owners.
The Watermelon Sugar singer also kept a cool head in 2022, when he became a water bottle thrown to his crotch. He was too hit in the eye with a handful of candy at a performance in Los Angeles that same year, clearly wincing but continuing.
Styles has even slipped onto the stage after a fan threw a kiwi on stage, in a clear nod to his song Kiwi, during his 2017 tour.
Fans of Lady Gaga speculated that she was protected by an invisible screen somehow when an audience member threw an object at the superstar during her Chromatic Ball tour in 2022, but it appeared to be blocked mid-flight and fell to the ground.
On that same tour, what appeared to be a hug grazed the Grammy and Oscar winner’s head while she was in the middle of a song, but Gaga didn’t miss a beat.
British singer Cher Lloyd abruptly ended a performance in Chelmsford, England in 2012 bottles were pelted on stage. Lloyd, who was 19 years old at the time, walked off stage with nothing but songs in her set.
She later came back on stage to continue the performance, but expressed her anger at what had happened, claiming that the bottles contained urine.
“It was very difficult to get here as it is and when you have bottles checked, with piss in them, it’s not nice.” she said.
