When iHeart Radio Music Festival organizers cut Green Day‘s
set short on Friday night (Sept. 21), frontman Billie Joe Armstrong was far
from happy about it. He went on an expletive-fueled rant onstage … and now he’s
entering rehab, according to a story at popcrush.com.
A rep for Green Day confirmed that Armstrong is entering
rehab for substance abuse (they didn’t specify which substance or substances
those are) and told TMZ, “Green Day wants to apologize to those they offended
at the iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas.”
Armstrong clearly felt disrespected by organizers for not
only cutting his band’s set short, but also for letting them be the last to
know about it. It appears he doesn’t quite believe a lot of the other acts have
paid their dues yet, and it really didn’t sit well with him.
The punk staples were set to perform for 45 minutes, but
were cut to 30 to accommodate sets by Usher (whose performance ran an extra 25
minutes) and Rihanna, who performed like she didn’t even want to be there.
What’s worse? No one told Armstrong until he was already performing and had one
minute left. He stopped performing during their classic ‘Basketcase’ and basically
flipped out.
WARNING: Crude language in the video.
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