Usher, 47, chose her from among thousands of people at his show in Nashville. He brought her onstage, gently touched her face, and tried to lay her back on a bed in front of the entire audience. But she stiffened up, uncomfortable, and did not play along.
“I don’t think she wants to be onstage”, the singer said, bewildered, before walking away and signaling to his team to take her off. Part of the audience began to boo.
The woman did not stay silent. She defended herself on social media, explaining that she did want to be there, that she had VIP seats, and that no one told her why they were bringing her onstage. “Unbothered”, she later wrote alongside a selfie. The moment reignited the controversy surrounding Usher’s shows, weeks after Chris Brown starred in a similar scene with Kayla Nicole. 👀