KELSEA BALLERINI CLAPS BACK AT HECKLER FOR CALLING OUT EX MORGAN EVANS
Originally appeared on E! Online
Kelsea Ballerini is done being a people pleaser.
The “This Feeling” singer clapped back at a spectator who appeared to yell “Team Morgan”—seemingly referring to Kelsea’s ex-husband Morgan Evans—during a performance of her song “Penthouse” in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 5.
“F--k off,” she replied as other concertgoers cheered and giggled, as seen in a TikTok video of the incident. “Team everyone’s happy.”
The 32-year-old—who was married to Morgan, 40, from 2017 to 2022—proceeded to flash a thumbs-up gesture into the crowd, which she followed up with a middle finger before resuming the performance.
But hours later, Kelsea had more to say about the matter, resharing a clip of the exchange on her Instagram Stories along with a warning about future interruptions.
“Respectfully, if anyone yells anything disrespectful to anyone during this song again, it will no longer be on the setlist,” she wrote in the Dec. 6 post. “Please let this be a song that matters to people and not a place to insert yourself into a world that doesn't exist and was never yours to begin with.”
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“Team everyone's happy or bust,” she said in closing. “Please.”
Last month, Kelsea spoke out after another song of hers drew strong reactions from fans on social media. When some listeners speculated that “Emerald City”—off her new EP Mount Pleasant—was about her comparing herself to ex-boyfriend Chase Stokes’ Outer Banks costar and former girlfriend Madelyn Cline, she clarified the primary purpose of her songwriting.
“I write songs to relate to,” she told fans while discussing the track at her Mount Pleasant Experience pop-up concert in Nashville Nov. 17, per People, “not to make a point on the internet.”
Likewise, Chase—whom Kelsea dated for three years before their breakup in September—weighed in when the rumors appeared in the comment section of one of Kelsea’s TikTok videos.
“These comments are f--king weird,” he wrote. “Grow up.”
For a look back at Kelsea and Chase’s romance, keep reading.
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