Axl Rose has responded after a fan claimed she was injured by his microphone throughout a latest Guns N’ Roses live performance.
A lady named Rebecca Howe was in attendance for GNR’s present in Adelaide, Australia on Nov.29. At the conclusion of the efficiency, Rose threw his microphone into the gang. Howe claims it struck her within the face and prompted severe injury.
“He took a bow and then he launched the microphone out to the crowd … and then bang, right on the bridge of my nose,” Howe recalled to the Adelaide Advertiser. “My mind went, ‘Oh my God, my face is caved in’.”
Howe, who was reportedly in shock and hyperventilating, was helped by an off-duty police officer. In photos posted to social media (see beneath), she seems to have injury to her nostril and two noticeably black eyes.
“What if it was a couple of inches to the right or left?” Howe contemplated. “I could have lost an eye … What if it hit me in the mouth and I broke my teeth? … If my head was turned and it hit me in the temple, it could have killed me.”
In a response to Howe’s declare, Rose posted a prolonged message to social media.
“It’s come to my attention that a fan may have been hurt at our show in Adelaide, Australia, possibly being hit by the microphone at the end of the show when I traditionally toss the mic to the fans,” the GNR frontman wrote. “If true, obviously we don’t want anyone getting hurt or to somehow in any way hurt anyone at our shows anywhere.”
The rocker additional famous that “for over 30 years” the mic toss has been “a known part of the very end of our performance.”
“Regardless,” Rose continued, “in the interest of public safety from now on we’ll refrain from tossing the mic or anything to our fans during or at our performances.”
This shouldn’t be the primary time a fan Down Under has claimed to have been injured by one among Rose’s flying microphones. In 2013, a person was struck within the mouth by a mic throughout Guns N’ Roses’ efficiency in Perth, leading to $5,000 in dental charges.
Guns N’ Roses’ present trek to the Southern Hemisphere concludes Dec. 10 in New Zealand.
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