Hayley Williams Apologizes for ‘Shaming’ Unruly Fans at Paramore Show: ‘I Abused My Responsibility and My Platform’

variety.com:

Thania Garcia Paramore’s Hayley Williams has expressed regret and apologized for the way she removed two arguing concert-goers from one of the band’s recent shows in a pensive note uploaded to Discord. “I am sorry for whatever shame or embarrassment I may have caused you,” she wrote.

Footage of the confrontation at the Madison Square Garden gig showed the spotlighted attendees at a loss for words when William told them they needed “to find somewhere else to take care of that shit because that’s not happening here tonight, this is our house.” Williams has routinely dedicated a portion of the band’s “This is Why” tour stops to encourage fans to be themselves in the safety and comfortability of their shows, and she wasted no time in making a similar statement at the band’s appearance in New York. “Yes, I will embarrass both of you.

Both of you need to find somewhere else to take care of that shit because that’s not happening here,” Williams told the misbehaving fans.

In the Discord statement posted days after the altercation, Williams laid out her regrets in writing after having seen the videos that have flooded apps like TikTok where fans and spectators applauded Williams and the band for removing the fans from the show. “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,” Williams wrote. “I embarrassed the hell out of these two people, without truly knowing what the situation was.