Iggy Azalea is defending an incident where she was caught on camera trying to run into a paparazzo with a shopping car and saying she hopes he has Ebola, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Tuesday.
The photographer was allegedly following the Australian rapper around the store, and it seems she took offense to it. The video, which shows the star and an assistant yelling at the paparazzo after he refused to leave them alone, was posted online earlier this week.
The paparazzo can be heard asking Iggy if she is infected with the deadly virus after she allegedly spit on him, to which she yelled back "I hope you have Ebola, I hope you die, you're an f-----g c--t."
A friend pulls the cart back before it can hit the man after Iggy tries to slam it into him. As she jumps into her car, she yells at the photographer and tells him that it isn't right to take photographs of people in public and store them, describing the behavior as "not cute."
"Being a musician doesn't give you the right to sneak into a supermarket and take photographs of somebody buying eggs," she said in the video.
The "Fancy" rapper explained the situation in her own words on Instagram:
Something is only "the way it is" for as long as one ALLOWS it to be. What I'm comfortable consenting a paparazzi do doesn't require anyone's opinion but my own. I don't see why that's hard for some to fathom. Judge me for spazzing if you like but you only saw the 30sec aftermath which was classy in comparison to what he said to us inside the grocery store where we discovered him lying on the floor after we had repeatedly & politely asked him to leave multiple locations during the course of the day. I don't hate paps, just the really aggressive ones... I only treated him the way he treated me all day. Fair is fair playboys and girls. peace out..."
