Iggy Azalea has defended her actions against a paparazzo, after she was caught on camera ramming a shopping cart at the man because he had been following her inside a Los Angeles supermarket.
The footage, which was captured earlier in the week, shows the Australian rapper and an assistant shouting at the male.
“Being a musician doesn’t give you the right to sneak into a supermarket and take photographs of somebody buying eggs,” Azalea told the photographer angrily.
“That’s not a public space, it’s private,” she continued.
“You’re inside a store taking pictures of people. It’s not OK. It’s not cute. And next time, I will have people with me that will do something to remove you [sic].”
The paparazzo then questioned whether the Work singer had AIDS or the deadly Ebola virus, to which she replies, “I hope you gave Ebola, I hope you die”.
Azalea responded to the incident on her Instagram account and explained that the man had been following her for the entire day.
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Something is only “the way it is” for as long as one ALLOWS it to be. What I’m comfortable consenting a paparazzi do doesn’t require anyone’s opinion but my own. I don’t see why that’s hard for some to fathom. Judge me for spazzing if you like but you only saw the 30sec aftermath which was classy in comparison to what he said to us inside the grocery store where we discovered him lying on the floor after we had repeatedly & politely asked him to leave multiple locations during the course of the day. I don’t hate paps, just the really aggressive ones… I only treated him the way he treated me all day. Fair is fair playboys and girls.
The singer’s post read as follows: “Something is only “the way it is” for as long as one ALLOWS it to be. What I’m comfortable consenting a paparazzi do doesn’t require anyone’s opinion but my own. I don’t see why that’s hard for some to fathom. Judge me for spazzing if you like but you only saw the 30sec aftermath which was classy in comparison to what he said to us inside the grocery store where we discovered him lying on the floor after we had repeatedly & politely asked him to leave multiple locations during the course of the day. I don’t hate paps, just the really aggressive ones… I only treated him the way he treated me all day. Fair is fair playboys and girls”.
