Cannes Film Festival: Colleagues Defend Usher After Kelly Rowland Red Carpet Confrontation: She Was “Only Doing Her Job”

Cannes Film Festival: Colleagues Defend Usher After Kelly Rowland Red Carpet Confrontation

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  1. Nah. The French just need to do their job better

  2. I don’t think the lady did anything wrong, I’ve been there when the festival is on & it’s mayhem & they have a schedule & are told to move people on, I think Kelly took it the wrong way, I don’t believe it was racially motivated or motivated. 

  4. I wonder what Kelly thinks about Beyonce’s new album. Someone ask her!

  6. I was out of the loop and thought “wait what happened between Kelly Rowland and Usher???”

  7. Maximum confusion – Usher or usher?

    Has-been celeb and usher having a fight – who cares!

    Two has-beens fighting on the red carpet? OK!

  10. This reminds me of the time in 1985 that my mom came rushing into our South Carolina apartment to tell me and my cousin that Sting was signing autographs a few blocks away at the opening of a Hardee’s. We rushed out of the place and ran full speed to the parking lot, filled with folks waiting in a lone that ended at a sun tent in the corner of the lot. I couldn’t believe it- Every Breath You Take was one of my favorite songs. As we advanced in the line, I could see into the canopy and realized the hulking oiled up man in face paint was not the lead singer of The Police, but the wrestler, Sting. We still waited until it was our turn, and in the absence of a photograph, paper or poster for an autograph he grabbed my forearm with his meaty paw and scribbled on my outer elbow with a Sharpie. To this day when I hear Don’t Stand So Close To Me, I think of that hit sweltering day, the close proximity of the people in line and the smell of that marker ink on my skin.

  11. White celebrities invited to Cannes promoting their films had red carpet time. She didn’t, because they’re racist. They mistook her as unimportant and demanded that she rush, then stepped on her gown, physically blocked her from clean photo ops, and then told her to leave the area and hurry inside once on the steps. Nobody was treated like that who approached the steps or going up the steps, and were given ample time. They even treated a celebrity’s dog better than her.

    It’s interesting that victim blaming comes in full flood just because she defended herself. Kind of like that bear or man alone in the woods topic for a while on social media. Some men couldn’t understand the statistics. That in predominantly men’s spaces, women aren’t treated with the same autonomy. In contrast, many white people just can’t seem to get it through their heads that in predominantly white spaces, black people are treated differently.

    (Edit) as an addendum, I watched the whole thing. There were white celebrities who came after her and were not rushed or blocked. The excuse that they were pressed for time is nonsense. It’s so sad that she has to have a white female escort (most likely her publicist) to tell them to back off and on the next day, to hold her hand between photo ops, as a psychological way to show security that she belongs there.

  12. Kind of related, but there’s a funny video out there of the singer of Lamb of God being denied access backstage by security because it was band access only. He laughed and said he’s the singer of the band, security was super embarrassed, but he thanked them for doing their job and he moved on.

    These people are just doing their jobs…

  13. Shiiiiit I’d never let some has been singer tell me something. What was she even doing at the gala she’s not famous anymore

  14. I’d love to see a video of the actual incident and while they’re at it a couple clips of other stars being treated in the same manner.

  15. Kelly Rowland has a massive ego and played the race card for no fucking reason. This is ridiculous.

  17. looking at the vid, the usher seems to step on her dress either way she’s super close to her. it looks kelly had just turned around to wave to fans and press and that usher was on her ass. and kelly says she was “scolded” so i’m guesssing maybe the usher might have spoken to her in a way that may have come off as disrespectful?? some “insider” (don’t know how much i trust some anonymous random) did say the staff was being aggressive and she ignored it for the most part until they got to the steps. maybe it was just a misunderstanding perhaps a language barrier??? i didn’t see anyone else getting rushed off like that maybe they were getting super short for time by then idk, but she’s someone who’s been on red carpets so i’m sure she knows how it works and probably wouldn’t have said anything unless she felt some type of way. do i personally think it was because kelly is black?? not rly i mean its possible ig, but i’m leaning toward it being a misunderstanding.

  18. I am just never going to side with a rich celebrity over the normal people paid to work for the rich celebrities.

  19. Oh I see. Not the artist “Usher”

    an actual *usher* on the red carpet told her she had to move on, and she took it some type of way and feels disrespected.

    When in fact they need to move people the fuck along because they have a schedule to keep, and the entire festival was indeed NOT completely centered around Kelly Rowland and her red carpet speeches.

  22. Are we getting another battle ?

    No, usher usher not Usher Usher.

  23. I really don’t know much Cannes and how the red carpet stuff works, but I do find it suspect that Kelly immediately pulled the race card when she was talking about “standing her ground”.

    One that doesn’t give us much information to go off of. And two, how could she possibly know that some people were given more red carpet time based on their race? She can’t be everywhere at once to know that lol. My gut is saying Kelly is overblowing the situation

  24. She didn’t have to call. It was ok girl. Usher will be alright tonight.

  25. Anyone have the full video of the red carpet?.I wonder how long Kelly was taking on the red carpet vs others. Was she going over her allotted time?

  26. Hasn’t she historically been a difficult/shitty person? Not surprised with this shit behavior coming from her.

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