Kelly Rowland stole many pink carpet headlines from this yr’s Cannes Movie Competition, with a visual confrontation with a feminine safety officer as she made her means up the well-known steps and into the Palais.
Deadline beforehand reported Rowland giving her aspect of the bust-up. Saying she felt the French safety rushed her time on the pink carpet at Cannes, resulting in the extensively circulated confrontation.
Now, the UK’s Each day Mail newspaper studies that colleagues of the usher have defended her, saying she was “solely doing her job.”
The paper quotes a colleague of the girl, who has not been named, saying:
“She was an usher working underneath a whole lot of stress to maintain individuals on the carpet transferring, in order to cease crowds build up. There was no pushing or shoving, or scolding. Safety and security are the priorities, together with maintaining to strict timetables set in line with contracts – even the celebrities have to stay to the principles.
“A number of ushers are concerned, they usually all the time act professionally and civilly.
“On this case, the usher was actually solely doing her job – she didn’t do something unsuitable.”
The incident occurred Tuesday as Rowland walked into the premiere of the French movie Marcello Mio. There have been phrases exchanged and Rowland raised her finger to emphasise her level.
“The girl is aware of what occurred, I do know what occurred,” Rowland informed the AP on the amfAR Cannes Gala on Thursday. “I’ve a boundary and I stand by these boundaries, and that’s it. And there have been different girls that attended that carpet who didn’t fairly appear to be me, they usually didn’t get that scolding, or pushed off, or informed to get off. I stood my floor, and she or he felt like she needed to stand hers. However I stood my floor.”
The identical supply informed the Each day Mail: “Options of racism are simply ridiculous – guests, and certainly employees at Cannes come from every kind of backgrounds, and none are discriminated towards.”
One other Cannes staffer who had studied the video of Tuesday’s incident informed The Mail Ms Rowland could have “mistakenly thought the usher stepped on her costume.”
