Bebe Rexha is claiming she was the sufferer of a “hate crime” after an incident at a German airport.
In a collection of emotional posts on her Instagram Story on Saturday (Aug. 17), the 34-year-old pop star alleged that she was “threatened” and banned from her Lufthansa flight at Munich Airport after talking Albanian to a safety official.
“I’ve been threatened as a result of I assumed the safety agent was Albanian,” Rexha captioned a video of herself sobbing. “I spoke to him in Albanian asking the place to get my ticket and now he’s banning me from the flight.”
In a one other put up, she wrote, “I imagine this to be a hate crime as a result of I’m Albanian. He wouldn’t let me take his title. He continued to mentally abuse me to make me really feel like he was extra highly effective [than] he was. Not one of many girls at @Lufthansa stepped in or stated one thing. He wouldn’t give me his title. However I simply discovered he works for ATSG a service firm doc management employed by Lufthansa.”
Rexha additionally reposted a request from one other Instagram consumer asking for the singer to be introduced dwelling safely, and known as for the Munich Airport to “examine the male officer who threatened a [woman]” for talking Albanian.
Rexha was born in New York and is of Albanian-North Macedonian descent. The Brooklyn native’s father was born North Macedonia and her mom, who was born within the U.S., has Albanian roots as nicely.
A consultant for Lufthansa advised TMZ that the airline is in touch with Rexha to get the total story. Lufthansa reportedly added that “variety and equal alternative are core values to their firm.”
See Rexha’s emotional posts on her Instagram Story right here.