Kehlani has opened up about being sexually assaulted by a fan at an aftershow at City Centre in Manchester following a performance on their Blue Water Road Trip Tour that night. Posting to their Instagram story on Monday, Kehlani, who uses she/they pronouns, wrote that they had been inappropriately touched while being escorted through the crowd after the show. "I’ve made video after video after video and deleted it because I don’t want any video of me as angry, triggered, crying upset as I am anywhere," Kehlani wrote in the now-deleted post. "I don’t care how sexual you deem my music, my performances, my fun with my friends dancing at clubs, or ME."
Kehlani continued: "That does not give any of you the right to cross a boundary like sticking your hands up my skirt & pulling my underwear to TOUCH MY GENITALS as I am being escorted through a crowd after performing. This shit made me sick to my stomach. As a victim of sexual assault, I am endlessly triggered and mindblown."
Kehlani has discussed their experience with sexual assault before -- in 2019, they opened up on an episode of their Sunday Gems podcast, saying: "I don’t want to add more hurt, I don’t want to add more pain. All I want to say is, ‘Sending love to everybody who’s on a healing path right now, and sending love to everybody who needs it. And if you’re apologizing for abuse, you’re disgusting. Suck my dick.'"
oh my god kehlani :(( no one should ever have their boundaries disrespected like this i’m truly disgusted for them. y’all are sick. pic.twitter.com/Xk0r23BWqQ
— mi’asia ?✨ (@glowinasia) December 13, 2022
