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Kelsea Ballerini abruptly stops performing and walks off stage after she’s hit in the face with object during concert
KELSEA Ballerini has been hit in the face with a flying object at one of her recent concerts.
The country music star performed in Boise, Idaho, on Wednesday.
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While singing her sit song, If You Go Down, Kelsea, 29, was hit in the face with a suspected friendship bracelet.
Once she got , she turned around.
One of her band members went over to see if she was OK.
She refused to turn around to look at the crowd before abruptly walking off the stage.
Luckily for the fans, she came back out but wanted to shine a light on what had happened.
"Can we just talk about what happened," she asked.
"All I care about is keeping everyone safe. If you ever don’t feel safe, please let someone around you know. If anyone’s pushing too much or you just have that gut feeling, just always flag it. Don’t throw things. You know?"
On Thursday, Kelsea updated fans on Instagram to let them know she's doing "fine" following the incident.
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The singer admitted the experience "scared" her more than it physically "hurt" her.
She went on: "We all have triggers and layers of fears way deeper than what is shown, and that’s why I walked offstage to calm down and make sure myself, band and crew, and the crowd all felt safe to continue.
"That’s all I ever want, is for shows to feel like a safe place for us all.
"I love you and appreciate all of the concern, let’s make the last two shows of the Heartfirst tour the best yet.”
Just last week, Bebe Rexha, 33, was hit in the face with a phone while and ended up needing stitches.
The person that threw the phone was arrested and charged with assault, aggravated harassment, attempted assault, and harassment.
'IT'S GETTING OUT OF HAND'
One fan posted the video of Kelsea getting hit on a popular pop culture .
Many others shared their thoughts on throwing objects at artists on stage, one said it's "getting out of hand."
";What the f**k is wrong with people? That looked like it really hurt whatever it was," one Reddit fan said.
"This throwing stuff at artists onstage is getting out of hand wtf," another wrote.
"I’m appalled," stated a third.
"This is out of control and will probably escalate throughout the summer. I'm all for stage netting at this point," argued a fourth.
A fifth commented: "Someone’s going to end up losing an eye."
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Born September 12, 1993, Kelsea is an American country singer and songwriter who also crosses over into pop.
She was born in Knoxville, , and is the only child of Ed and Carla Ballerini.
In 2014, the rising star signed with Black River Entertainment and released her debut album, The First Time, the following year.
Her second album, Apologetically, came out in 2017.
To date, Ballerini has seven No. 1 singles under her belt: Love Me Like You Mean It, Legends, Dibs, Peter Pan, hole in the bottle, I Quit Drinking, and half of my hometown.
Her single, Love Me Like You Mean It, made her the first female artist to send a debut single to the top of the country music chart since Carrie Underwood in 2006.
Dibs and Peter Pan made her the first female country artist to send her first three singles to the top of that chart since Wynonna Judd.
The young star released two albums, the first titled, Kelsea, and the stripped-down acoustic version titled, Ballerini, in 2020.
In September 2022, Ballerini debuted her latest album, titled Subject To Change.
The album is the star's most vulnerable work so far, with subjects ranging from her divorce from fellow country music star Morgan Evans to losing a friend.
She credits writing her 2021 book Feel Your Way Through, a book of original poetry, with helping him tap into her more vulnerable side.
She said to Billboard: "I credit a lot of the openness and the more poetic side of the songwriting to the book.
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"I feel like that opened my mind creatively and helped me work outside of the [standard song] structure.
"That creative freedom unlocked a part of me I hope to keep pushing in any kind of project that I do."
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