Kelly Rowland was the topic of Web chatter after she was noticed stepping into it with an usher at this 12 months’s Cannes Movie Pageant. The singer and actress has since made a public assertion after the incident, stating that she was standing her floor.
The picture of Kelly Rowland pointing and having what seemed to be a loud dialogue with the Cannes Movie Pageant usher went viral this week and even sparked some meme fodder. It wasn’t understood on the time what occurred however Rowland, talking with the Related Press, defined her aspect of occasions and even alleged that ladies [i.e. not Black] who didn’t seem like her weren’t handled the identical.
“The girl is aware of what occurred. I do know what occurred. I’ve a boundary and I stand by these boundaries and that’s it,” Kelly Rowland mentioned to the AP on the Cannes Movie Pageant. “And there have been different girls that attended that carpet who didn’t fairly seem like me they usually didn’t get scolded or pushed off or advised to get off. I stood my floor and he or she felt like she needed to stand hers. However I stood my floor.”
From what was seen on video footage, Rowland was instructed twice by an usher to vacate the pink carpet part on the Palais des Festivals and motioned her to take the steps into the theater. Then a gaggle of ushers swarmed her and basically guided her to the steps. At that second, Rowland gave one of many ushers a bit of her thoughts.
Rowland noticed a distinction in therapy however stopped wanting calling it race-related however the suggestion rings clear in her statment.
The video of Kelly Rowland’s feedback could be seen beneath.
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