Kehlani was reportedly sexually assaulted during a performance in the U.K. this week.
The Oakland-born singer performed in Manchester, England on Monday night (December 12), where they wrapped up the European leg of their Blue Water Road Trip Tour.
Kehlani later hit the stage at The Printworks, another venue in central Manchester, for the official after-party.
Following her performances, Kehlani reportedly posted a message on their Instagram Stories alleging they had been inappropriately touched while being escorted through the crowd after one of the shows.
“I’ve made video after video after video and deleted it because i don’t want any video of me as angry, triggered, crying upset as i am anywhere,” she wrote in the post, which has since been deleted. “i don’t care how sexual you deem my music, my performances, my fun with my friends dancing at clubs, or ME….
“that does not give any of you the right to cross a boundary like sticking your hands up my skirt & pulling my underwear to TOUCH MY GENITALS as i am being escorted through a crowd after performing.”
Kehlani added: “this shit made me sick to my stomach. as a victim of sexual assault, i am endlessly triggered and mindblown.”
Kehlani’s manager David Ali posted footage of Kehlani performing at her concert and after-party on his Instagram Stories. However, it’s unclear where the alleged sexual assault took place.
HipHopDX has reached out to Kehlani’s team for comment.
UPDATE (15/12): A rep for the O2 Victoria Warehouse has told HipHopDX that the alleged sexual assault did not take place at its venue.
As their since-removed Instagram Story circulated online, a number of fans flocked to social media to express their shock and outrage at the culprit’s alleged behavior, as well as offer their support to the 27-year-old singer.
“my heart hurts for kehlani.. y’all know damn well y’all do NOT have that access to her!!! it’s disrespectful and disgusting,” one fan wrote.
“kehlani is nothing but the sweetest angel to walk on this earth & the fact some of you have absolutely no respect for her is just disgusting,” another added.
Kehlani has previously opened up about their past experience with sexual assault and the struggle they endured after realizing they were a victim of rape.
“There is nothing I can say that is new, that I feel like is providing a real take, that I feel isn’t gonna take away from the conversation,” they said on an episode of her Sunday Gems podcast in 2019.
“I don’t want to add more hurt, I don’t want to add more pain. All I want to say is, ‘Sending love to everybody who’s on a healing path right now, and sending love to everybody who needs it. And if you’re apologizing for abuse, you’re disgusting. Suck my dick.'”
The two-time Grammy nominee has also been a vocal supporter of other sexual assault victims, namely those targeted by Superfly actor/rapper Kaalan “KR” Walker, who was sentenced to 50 years in prison in October for raping multiple women.
“I did not forget who tore down victims of sexual assault when this came out,” Kehlani said in an Instagram video following Walker’s conviction. “I did not forget what bloggers and what blogs and what platforms felt like they had to play neutral and give a rapist a platform for the sake of clicks and views when this came out.
“I hope all y’all beat the fuck out of your own ass. I hope you eat your fucking words. This man is going to jail for the rest of his life, guilty as hell. And it’s crazy that it took this, it took this, for y’all to believe it ’cause it should’ve been believed when it came out. I hope you feel like shit.”
loooooooool. gtfoh
You are the problem with society. You already chose a side prior to reading the article. What basis do you have to say that she wasn’t assaulted?!?!?! Would you say that to your mother, sister, daughter, girlfriend or wife, if they said that to you? Be a better person, a better version of yourself. You will be proud of yourself in the end.
Being a better person doesnt mean taking some weird womans word for it who has drug issues and self diagnosed mental disorders… being better means listening 2 both sides and figuring out who’s lying.. woman included.
With all respect to that young lady when you promote your body in the way she does you are going to have mfs out here trying to get whatever piece of her that they can, also come on security should of escorted her through a less congested way
Stop telling women how to promote their body and encourage men to stop touching people they shouldn’t.
Go seek therapy get off line and find some self esteem.Noone has time to stop life to deal w ur issues.. woman feel the world needs to stop to address their mental issues. Seek therapy and shut up
And that’s the fucking problem with fucking black men. Only assholes that live with their parents that haven’t been through shit act like that. Grow up
Just like you made a comment to your ZERO followers, she made a comment too.
Seek therapy ..Noone gets paid to be your therapist or deal w ur self htred issues you project onto the world… act like a grown ass woman or go into a mental institution until u can act your age!!
Im genuinely curious if you’re being serious? It’s like you didn’t read the article. In what way is she acting less than her age by speaking on bring touched without her consent. I feel like some of y’all need to call your mom and get over this immediate rage you feel every time a woman speaks. @
Diff between speaking on it and raging online endlessly looking for sympathy which is what she’s clearly doing.. and it’s funny whenever someone critiques a woman it’s always rage and misogyny huh lmaoo never think maybe.. just maybe that man is teaching u how to grow the fuck up? LOL
Ya love the freedom of speech thing but people like FOH and L shouldn’t have an opinion.
Kehlani is always in the headlines for some stupid shit. First it’s her cheating on her boyfriend, then that leads to a fake suicide, then that leads to a fake gender misidentification, then that leads to her retracting her identity as a trans and now she’s back to being the victim getting sexually assaulted after it’s been known that she’s a drug addict and only said she likes girls cuz of the lbgtq movement. It’s a wonderful worldddd and kehlani smells like fishhh
What really is sexual assault ? Its a made up term to make touching the clothes someone is wearing sound like rape. Im not condoning grabbing a womans ass. But we waste too much taxpayer money having investigations over hurt feelings and bruised egos.
Interesting how you complain about taxpayer money being wasted. Maybe if dudes didn’t grope women without their consent we wouldn’t be “wasting” taxpayer dollars. You blame the women for speaking out instead of the men who actually do it. Also, sticking your hand up a woman’s skirt without consent is obviously sexual assault. You’re simple minded.
How do u know a man did this?
Why do butch lesbians gradually resemble Pitbull the rapper? Shit is strange to me.