Hayley Williams Apologizes For Kicking Fans Out Of Show

Hayley Williams is backtracking on her recent actions that occurred during a Paramore concert.

According to Billboard, Paramore was performing at Madison Square Garden in New York City last week where an incident involving two concert goers happened.

In a video from the event, it seemed to show a young man pushing his way through the crowd to get closer to a young woman, and the situation got heated enough for the band to make a move to get them out of the venue.

Now though, Hayley is looking back on her actions that night.

Posting a statement on the band’s Discord channel, Hayley wrote, “My insides were triggered from numerous personal experiences not fit for a blog post or a microphone on stage at an arena. My outsides were trying to maintain control of a situation I felt that myself and my bandmates were responsible for. 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.”

She went on, “As a group – all 25,000 of us or so – exiled these people from the show in record time. It was a moment that I would not fully process for a couple of days, when a friend showed me a video from the inside of the crowd, up close to the action.”

Hayley then admitted that she sees her actions as abusing “my responsibility and my platform in that moment … that I hurt those two in a way that will outlast the momentary discomfort of their poor concert etiquette.”

“I feel the same tension in this moment that I wrote about all over the new album,” she wrote. “I love to say we make a safe space at our shows each night … but I’m also the one who may throw someone out without really even knowing what exactly is going on.”

“So, if you are those two people … I am sorry for whatever shame or embarrassment I may have caused you…I’m not telling you that it’s perfectly fine to act entitled or ignorant at a show,” Hayley concluded. “I’m just saying that I’m sorry that I handled the whole situation like the arbiter of the same type of cancel culture that doesn’t often teach or lead in any productive way.”

If you missed it, Hayley was just announced as one of the collaborators on Taylor Swift‘s upcoming, remastered Speak Now album.