Shock as fans find 'photo' circulating of Guy Sebastian with a black eye after being 'arrested'
The Australian singer, 43, was seen with a swollen and bruised eye in an image that was either Photoshopped or generated using AI technology.
While the picture was clearly fake, many Reddit users questioned why they were seeing the image online.
'Anyone else getting spammed with weird fake Guy Sebastian news story ads?' one person asked.
'I wonder how they choose what celeb to target. Someone enough people know to maybe be interested, but not know well enough to know it's bullsh*t,' another wrote.
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'He's in a legal battle with his former manager. So I think a PR campaign against him would check out,' another person joked.
It comes after Guy recently recalled the time he was held at gunpoint by multiple police officers in Los Angeles for suspicion of grand theft auto.
The Australian singer said a knee was placed on his body while a gun pressed his face into 'wet concrete'.
During an interview on Nova's Smallzy's Surgery with Kent 'Smallzy' Small in April, Guy recounted his terrifying ordeal.
The incident, which occurred in 2011 when Guy was living and working in the United States at age 29, was confirmed by his management to Sydney Morning Herald at the time.
'I was living at Ian Thorpe's house in LA. I was just renting it for a while,' the singer began.
'I parked my car there, literally in the driveway, and I came back and it was gone.'
Guy told radio host Smallzy his car - 'bought on eBay' - was illegally towed by a dodgy company and taken to an undisclosed location without telling him.
The company was attempting to exploit a loophole in the law, which allowed them to sell impounded cars if they were not claimed by the owner within three months.
'Police told me the car had been taken by a tow company. So I'm going from tow company to tow company, over three or four weeks,' Guy said.
'Eventually I went to the police for the third time, after I'd been to 20 or 30 tow companies. I said it's a needle in a haystack. So they marked it as stolen which alerted the tow company.
'I go to pick it up and they charge me $4,000USD. It's a scam that they do.'
Guy had been renting the Australian Olympic swimmer's two-bedroom hideaway in the Hollywood Hills, located behind West Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard.
Upon picking up his car from the impound lot, Guy called police to notify them that the car was no longer missing or stolen.
After 45 minutes of being left on hold, Guy decided to drive to a local car wash while he waited to speak to police.
'I pick up this car. It's all damaged from the tow thing. I'm livid. I hop in this car and head down to the car wash because the sheriff is up the road,' he continued.
'I thought, "Bugger it, I'll go there after I wash this car". Didn't think anything of it. One police car pulls up in the next wash bay.
'I'm still on the phone to the sheriff and I see another one pulls up. Next minute there's eight or nine cops with their guns drawn, screaming: "SHUT UP AND GET ON THE GROUND!"'
The car was still showing in the police system as stolen, as Guy had yet to get through to change that status.
'I'm on Bluetooth in my car and one cop pulls the phone out and throws the phone, smashing it. It was like a movie,' Guy said, able to laugh about the incident now.
Guy attempted to notify officers that it was a misunderstanding and that he had the correct paperwork on the front seat and was on hold to police, but they refused to let him talk.
'He actually had the gun pressed into my forehead. It was full on. I could feel the metal of the gun,' Guy said, as another officer apparently told him to 'relax'.
'I was telling them it's my car. They wouldn't hear it. They put me in cuffs, pushing my face into this wet concrete.'
Guy said he was eventually let go after his paperwork was checked and cleared, and said he understood why the police needed to act the way they did.
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