Object Hits Country's Kelsea Ballerini During Concert

Kelsea Ballerini

“Don’t throw things, you know?” Kelsea Ballerini’s plaintive request during a recent concert shouldn’t be that hard to follow.

In the latest bout of singers being pelted by concert fans, the country star was hit in the face by a bracelet thrown by someone in the audience at her Wednesday night show in Boise, Idaho.

The L-A Times reports the musician was struck while performing her song “If You Go Down (I’m Goin’ Down Too),” a video posted on Twitter showed. Ballerini held her face as she stepped away from the microphone before asking her violinist to assess the damage. She briefly began to strum her guitar again before hastily exiting the stage.

Country music singer Kelsea Ballerini briefly paused a concert after she was struck in the face by a bracelet while she was on stage. https://t.co/sDaTEDJtDy

— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 29, 2023

The “This Feeling” artist later returned to the stage to finish her set and deliver a message to the audience:

“Can we just talk about what happened?” Ballerini said in a fan video posted on TikTok. “All I care about is keeping everyone safe. If you ever don’t feel safe, please let someone around you know. If anyone’s pushing too much or you just have that gut feeling, just always flag it.”

“Hi. I’m fine. Someone threw a bracelet, it hit me in the eye, and it more so just scared me than hurt me,” she wrote alongside a photo of her performance. “We all have triggers and layers of fears way deeper than what is shown, and that’s why I walked offstage to calm down and make sure myself, band and crew and the crowd all felt safe to continue. That’s all I ever want, is for shows to feel like a safe place for all of us.”

She ended her speech by simply stating the obvious, “Don’t throw things, you know?”