After her Instagram posts went viral, she received an outpouring of love and support from her fans.
Singer-songwriter Bebe Rexha claimed she was threatened and barred from a flight in Germany after speaking to a security officer in Albanian. On August 17, Rexha shared an emotional video on her Instagram story detailing the alleged incident and tagging the airline Lufthansa. In the video, a crying Rexha told her fans that she was not allowed through security and that she was the victim of a “hate crime.”
“I was threatened because I thought the security guard was Albanian. I spoke to him in Albanian and asked where I could get my ticket and now he is banning me from flying,” she says under a video in which she can be seen sobbing at Munich airport.
In another story, she wrote: “I believe this is a hate crime because I am Albanian. He didn’t let me tell him his name. He continued to abuse me psychologically to make me feel more powerful than him. None of the women at @Lufthansa intervened or said anything. He wouldn’t tell me his name. But I just found out he works for ATSG, a document control service company contracted by Lufthansa.”
Rexha also reposted a plea from her mother asking for the singer to be brought home safely and called on Munich Airport to “investigate the male police officer who threatened a (woman)” because she spoke Albanian.
After her Instagram posts went viral, she received an outpouring of love and support from her fans. One user wrote, “This girl is always being mistreated or disrespected… Bebe Rexha deserves more people need to start respecting her.”
Another commented: “She literally does nothing wrong and has to go through this all the time. I wish her nothing but peace going forward.” A third said: “This woman doesn’t bother anyone… LEAVE HER ALONE.” A fourth added: “This security guard is a racist and should be fired.”
Last year, she suffered a head injury after a man threw his phone at her during a concert at Pier 17 in New York City. A video of the incident shared by concertgoers on social media shows the singer falling to her knees and slumping in pain as the phone hit the side of her head. She was later escorted out of the venue with her hands pressed to her face.
