Hayley Williams Apologizes For Kicking Fans Out Of Show
06.06.2023 - 20:32
/ justjared.com
Hayley Williams is backtracking on her recent actions that occurred during a Paramore concert.
According to Billboard, Paramore was performing at Madison Square Garden in New York City last week where an incident involving two concert goers happened.
In a video from the event, it seemed to show a young man pushing his way through the crowd to get closer to a young woman, and the situation got heated enough for the band to make a move to get them out of the venue.
Now though, Hayley is looking back on her actions that night.
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Posting a statement on the band’s Discord channel, Hayley wrote, “My insides were triggered from numerous personal experiences not fit for a blog post or a microphone on stage at an arena. My outsides were trying to maintain control of a situation I felt that myself and my bandmates were responsible for. Without the opportunity for a proper back and forth (and with a looming, strict show-curfew in the back of my mind), I bared my teeth like a mother wolf.”
She went on, “As a group – all 25,000 of us or so – exiled these people from the show in record time. It was a moment that I would not fully process for a couple of days, when a friend showed me a video from the inside of the crowd, up close to the action.”
Hayley then admitted that she sees her actions as abusing “my responsibility and my platform in that moment … that I hurt those two in a way that will outlast the momentary discomfort of their poor concert etiquette.”
“I feel the same tension in this moment that I wrote about all over the new album,” she wrote. “I love to say we make a safe space at our shows each night … but I’m also the one who may throw someone out without really even knowing what exactly is