Kelly Rowland stole many headlines on the red carpet at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with a visible confrontation with a female security guard as she walked up the famous steps to the Palais.
Deadline previously reported that Rowland would give her side of the failure. She said she felt French security rushed her time on the red carpet in Cannes, leading to the widespread confrontation.
Now, the is from Great Britain Daily email The newspaper reports that the messenger’s colleagues have defended herand said she was “just doing her job.”
The newspaper quotes a colleague of the woman, who has not been named, saying:
“She was an usher who worked under great pressure to keep people moving on the carpet, to prevent the crowd from building up. There was no pushing, shoving or swearing. Security and safety are the priorities, along with adhering to strict timescales set out in contracts – even celebrities have to adhere to the rules.
“There are many ushers involved, who always behave professionally and politely.
“In this case, the usher was certainly only doing her job – she did nothing wrong.”
The incident happened on Tuesday when Rowland walked into the premiere of the French film Marcello Mio. Words were exchanged and Rowland raised her finger to emphasize her point.
“The woman knows what happened, I know what happened,” Rowland told the AP at the amfAR Cannes Gala on Thursday. “I have a boundary and I stick to those boundaries, and that’s it. And there were other women who visited that carpet who didn’t look exactly like me, and they didn’t get scolded, or pushed away, or told to get off. I stuck to my guns and she felt like she had to stick to her guns. But I stuck to my guns.”
The same source told the Daily email: “Suggestions of racism are simply ridiculous – visitors, and even Cannes staff, come from all backgrounds, and none are discriminated against.”
Another Cannes employee who had reviewed the video of Tuesday’s incident spoke out The mail Mrs Rowland may have ‘mistakenly believed that the usher stepped on her dress’.
