Kelly Rowland Explains Viral Confrontation with Security on Cannes Red Carpet: 'I Stood My Ground'

Kelly Rowland speaks out after a heated viral exchange with security on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet on Tuesday.

After footage of the Destiny’s Child alum talking sternly to a security guard at the Marcello Mio premiere red carpet made waves online, she explained the incident in an interview with The Associated Press at the amfAR Cannes Gala in France on Thursday, May 23.

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“The woman knows what happened. I know what happened,” Rowland, 43, told the paper. “I have a limit and I stick to that limit and that’s it.”

“There were other women who were on that carpet who didn’t look exactly like me, and they weren’t scolded, pushed or told to get off,” she added. – I stood my ground, and she felt that she had to stand her ground, but I stood my ground.

Kelly Rowland in Cannes on May 21, 2024.

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PEOPLE has reached out to the Cannes Film Festival for comment.

The incident took place on the staircase of the Palais des Festivals, where Rowland and a security guard clashed. Several people from the entourage of the “Dilema” singer seemed to be in the way, but the guard continued to move them on the carpet.

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Earlier this year, Rowland starred in her own movie — a Tyler Perry movie Mea Culpa. After its release on Netflix in February, she told PEOPLE that starring in the erotic legal thriller “was quite an experience.”

Kelly Rowland in Cannes on May 21, 2024.

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“I remember being very nervous when I read the script and I remember thinking about everything that an erotic thriller has and it scared me a lot,” she said at the time. “And then I had a friend call me and say, ‘You know, Kel, if it doesn’t scare you, what’s the point?'”

“And so I literally ran. I got it all figured out. Tyler was so amazing and instrumental in this whole process and [my costar] Trevant [Rhodes] it was a pleasure to work with him. I’ve been very blessed,” Rowland added.

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