Pink's Shocking Encounter: Fan Throws Mother's Ashes on Stage - Witnessed at the British Summer Time Festival

2023-06-27 21:32:18

Pink’s reaction when a fan threw her mother’s ashes on stage in the middle of a concert – Credits: @James Manning

This weekend, during one of his shows, Pink He experienced a strange situation that he will never forget in his life: a fan who was in the audience decided to throw her dead mother’s ashes onto the stage.

The incomprehensible event occurred over the weekend at the British Summer Time festival in London. “Is this your mother?” Pink asked, incredulous, to the woman standing very close to the stage, as she picked up a plastic bag of cremated remains from the floor. The events were recorded in a video that another viewer posted on Twitter on Monday.

With a surprised expression on her face, the singer only managed to say: “I don’t know how I feel about this.” She then stood up, unsteadily a bit, and placed the ashes on the edge of the stage. In the clip that went viral, the pop star could also be seen shaking her hands, as if trying to clean them, before continuing to sing her song “Just Like a Pill”, all this without being able to hide the astonished face of she.

As soon as they saw the video, users of the social network began to comment on the controversial fact, stunned by the attitude of the fan. “Someone gave Pink her mother’s ashes. I need everyone to put a limit on things… How can it be?” Wrote the person who shared the images.

Another Twitter user claimed to know the reason why the ashes were dumped and revealed the context of the situation. “My friends were close to this lady and the story behind it all is that her mother couldn’t go out much because she was very sick, so now the daughter takes her ashes everywhere,” they said.

“Maybe it’s not something that everyone likes, but if it comforts this woman, it’s something of hers … What she did is also not something nice,” commented one person. “Pink handled it well because I think she would be mad if someone gave me her mom’s ashes. Now I understand why some celebrities keep their distance,” added another follower.

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The unpleasant event was the latest in a series of uncomfortable moments that different artists are experiencing due to the fashion of throwing things on stage. Last week, a bystander threw her phone at Bebe Rexha during her show in New York. The cell phone hit the artist in the eye, a fact for which they had to cancel her concert in order to take her to the hospital, where she received several stitches.

In 2022, Harry Styles was thrown candy during one of his tour shows Love on Tour in Los Angeles, a fact for which he also suffered an eye injury. That same year, Lady Gaga was struck in the head by an object thrown at her during a performance in Toronto, Canada.

As for Pink, this is not the first time that she has made the news due to some strange situation that occurred at a concert: in 2019, a fan gave birth in the middle of the show, at Liverpool Anfield Stadium in England. It was Denise Jones, who She was going through the 37th week of her pregnancy and began to feel contractions when the singer’s hit “Get The Party Started” began to play..

Jones went into labor and was assisted by local paramedics who moved her to a secluded area, under the stage: her baby was named Dolly Pink in honor of the artist. “The plan was to call her Dolly Louise, but since she was born in the show, we changed it,” the woman told the British publication The Mirror, already with the baby in her arms and happy that everything went well.

Stunned by what happened, at that moment Pink shared the news through her Instagram account, and joked: “Dolly Pink wanted to start the party”, alluding to the name of the song during which the little girl, who is now four years old, arrived to the world.