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QOTSA Frontman Kicks Photographer In The Face During Performance

QOTSA Frontman Kicks Photographer In The Face During Performance

Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme kicked female photographer Chelsea Lauren in the face during the band’s performance at KROQ Acoustic Christmas.

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“Josh was coming over and I was pretty excited, I’ve never actually photographed Queens Of The Stone Age before, I was really looking forward to it. I saw him coming over and I was shooting away,” Lauren stated. “The next thing I know his foot connects with my camera and my camera connects with my face, really hard. He looked straight at me, swung his leg back pretty hard and full-blown kicked me in the face. He continued performing, I was startled, I kind of stopped looking at him, I just got down and was holding my face because it hurt so badly.”

She was able to return to the pit to shoot Thirty Seconds To Mars and Muse after the incident, but went for treatment later that night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

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