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Monday, September 24, 2012

Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Enters Rehab


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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