Destiny's Child star left 'crying' over first class plane passenger's behaviour: 'The audacity'
Destiny's Child star Michelle Williams has shared her horror over a first class passenger's behaviour during a recent flight.
The singer, 44, was mortified when the flier sitting behind her on an American Airlines flight to New York City rested their bare foot in the small gap between her seat and the window.
Williams called out the passenger's 'audacity' as she shared a photo of his foot on Instagram on Sunday.
"I PROMISE YOU BETTA GETCHO FOOT FROM ME!!!! Y'all this is happening neowwwwwwww on my flight and I am crying real tears!!" she wrote.
"For those asking…….. YES I am sitting in the first class cabin……a lot of AUDACITY resides in that booking class……. OBVIOUSLY!! #seat3F the f is for feet."
Her Destiny's Child bandmate Kelly Rowland commented, 'NAWWWWWW!!!!' while fellow bandmate Beyonce's mother, Tina Knowles, wrote: 'I'm so sorry that you have to go through that!!!! Accidentally waste some ice cold Coke on him. I bet you he'll move them then.'
Williams revealed she later resolved the issue by 'elbowing' the flier's foot out the way and added: 'Now I gotta take my coat to the cleaners."
The Lose My Breath hitmaker also shared a video explaining the incident on Instagram when she got home.
She kicked off the clip by singing Rich Tolbert's hit, Defeated, but changing the spelling to "defeeted" in reference to her experience.
"I made it out, I made it out alright!' she sang to the camera, before telling fans: "I was almost defeated with someone's feet, do you hear me Niecy Nash, do you hear me?
"I didn't know, it tried to take me out. I said wait a minute you ever think you see something out of your peripheral vision. I looked down... I'm itching.
"I don't matter to me what class you fly, I still like Southwest, I was in first class. My seat was 3F - I didn't know the F was going to be for feet.'
She added: "I was crying real tears. He was friendly though. He actually helped take my bag off the overhead bin, and I said thank you."
The singer then explained: "I flew home to Chicago, Illinois. I had to be in my hometown of Rockford, Illinois over the weekend for a death in my family.'
She was due back in New York to perform as Viola Van Horn in her Broadway show, Death Becomes Her, an adaptation of the 1992 Meryl Streep film, and joked that she 'almost didn't make it because of a foot'.
She said the person who died was an incredibly important figure in her life.
"He mentored my brother and if he hadn't mentored my brother, I don't think, I would have fallen in love with music the way I have and he's married to my cousin,' she shared.
"But I'm glad to be home and I just wanted you all to know 'I made it out, I made it out all right'."
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