Singer Bebe Rexha says she’s OK after fan throws telephone at her on stage
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By Associated Press
NEW YORK: Pop star Bebe Rexha was hit within the face and injured by a cellphone hurled from the viewers at a hometown present in New York City Sunday evening, and a person was arrested, police stated.
The Grammy-nominated, multiplatinum-selling singer-songwriter was taken to a hospital after the telephone hit her, police stated. A bruise and a bandage had been seen above her left eye in social media posts she made on Monday.
“I’m good, yeah, I’m feelin’ alright,” she sang in a TikTok video, taking a line from “I’m Good (Blue),” her latest hit with DJ David Guetta.
Rexha, 33, was on stage at Pier 17, a rooftop venue in Manhattan, when the telephone was thrown, police stated. Videos posted on social media confirmed the telephone ricocheting off the artist’s head, after which Rexha grabbing her face and sinking to her knees.
Nicolas Malvagna, 27, of New Jersey, was launched with out bail after being arraigned Monday on assault, aggravated harassment and different fees. Each is both a misdemeanour or a violation.
According to a court docket grievance, Malvagna informed a 3rd get together he tried to hit Rexha with the telephone on the finish of the present as a result of he thought “it would be funny.”
A message in search of remark was despatched to his lawyer.
A 3-time Grammy nominee, Rexha is thought for such hits as “I’m Good (Blue),” “Meant to Be,” that includes nation’s Florida Georgia Line, and “I Got You.” Raised in New York, she was a songwriter for different artists earlier than changing into a solo star.
“What I’m learning is that not everybody is going to connect with you and understand you, and that’s OK,” she informed The Associated Press in April, shortly earlier than the discharge of her newest album, “Bebe.”
“And I feel like you have to just be your realest, truest version of yourself because, at the end of the day, if you try to change yourself to be liked by other people, you’re not really being yourself,” she added.
She is subsequent scheduled to carry out in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
NEW YORK: Pop star Bebe Rexha was hit within the face and injured by a cellphone hurled from the viewers at a hometown present in New York City Sunday evening, and a person was arrested, police stated.
The Grammy-nominated, multiplatinum-selling singer-songwriter was taken to a hospital after the telephone hit her, police stated. A bruise and a bandage had been seen above her left eye in social media posts she made on Monday.
“I’m good, yeah, I’m feelin’ alright,” she sang in a TikTok video, taking a line from “I’m Good (Blue),” her latest hit with DJ David Guetta. googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-1687167573941-0’); );
Rexha, 33, was on stage at Pier 17, a rooftop venue in Manhattan, when the telephone was thrown, police stated. Videos posted on social media confirmed the telephone ricocheting off the artist’s head, after which Rexha grabbing her face and sinking to her knees.
Nicolas Malvagna, 27, of New Jersey, was launched with out bail after being arraigned Monday on assault, aggravated harassment and different fees. Each is both a misdemeanour or a violation.
According to a court docket grievance, Malvagna informed a 3rd get together he tried to hit Rexha with the telephone on the finish of the present as a result of he thought “it would be funny.”
A message in search of remark was despatched to his lawyer.
A 3-time Grammy nominee, Rexha is thought for such hits as “I’m Good (Blue),” “Meant to Be,” that includes nation’s Florida Georgia Line, and “I Got You.” Raised in New York, she was a songwriter for different artists earlier than changing into a solo star.
“What I’m learning is that not everybody is going to connect with you and understand you, and that’s OK,” she informed The Associated Press in April, shortly earlier than the discharge of her newest album, “Bebe.”
“And I feel like you have to just be your realest, truest version of yourself because, at the end of the day, if you try to change yourself to be liked by other people, you’re not really being yourself,” she added.
She is subsequent scheduled to carry out in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
