Pop singer-songwriter Bebe Rexha alleged she was a sufferer of a hate crime after being banned from a Munich-based Lufthansa flight for talking Albanian to a safety agent.
“I’ve been threatened as a result of I assumed the safety agent was Albanian,” the singer captioned tearful movies posted to her Instagram Story on Saturday. “I spoke to him in Albanian asking the place to get my ticket and now he’s banning me from the flight.”
The dance/R&B musician, who has collaborated with Doja Cat, David Guetta, Eminem, and Florida Georgia Line, is of North Macedonian and Albanian descent.
“I imagine this to be a hate crime as a result of I’m Albanian,” she wrote in a second Story publish, which has since expired. “[The supervisor] wouldn’t let me take his title. He continued to mentally abuse me to make me really feel like he was extra highly effective then [sic] he was. Not one of many girls at @Lufthansa stepped in or mentioned one thing.”
In a later replace, the “I’m Good” singer shared that the airline had contacted her in regards to the incident.
“I’ve by no means been so emotionally drained. @Lufthansa has direct messaged me however I urge them to do a full investigation on discovering out who this man who was abusing his energy is. An ‘I’m sorry’ just isn’t gonna reduce it this time,” she wrote.
In a last message shared Sunday, Rexha mentioned she had made it again dwelling. “Thanks everybody who messaged me and confirmed concern. I bought dwelling protected, thank God.”
In Entertainment Weekly and CNN statements, the airline mentioned it’s conducting an “inside evaluate” on the matter.
