Russell Crowe and Azealia Banks recently got into a pretty heated argument. So heated, it resulted in Crowe picking Banks up and throwing her out of his party. Banks has now spoken with ‘The Sun’ and reiterated the altercation in her own words.
According to Banks, she was the victim.
“I think he’s a racist, misogynist pig. This is a stain on me. My femininity feels stained. I feel stained as a woman, I feel mishandled, I feel mistreated, I feel dirty. I feel very fucking low.”
Banks says Crowe was actually flirting with her before the incident. She says he was touching her leg, calling her beautiful and even told her how much he loved her music. She says later on, a woman who was supposedly his girlfriend told her, “Russell thinks you’re so hot,” in which her response was “You know, I’m not here for that.”
Banks says things took a turn once she made fun of another guest, who was an aspiring filmmaker.
“Russell just kind of switched. He was like, ‘Well you know what? You’re young and you’ve never done anything in your career so you don’t know what you’re talking about.’ I’m a little offended but I was still keeping it light. I was like, ‘Your best days are behind you.’”
Banks then says a woman at the party confronted her about her remarks.
“I said, ‘Girl, this is not the right time or place for us to be fighting, like what would happen if I got up and I slapped the shit out of you, or I took a glass and fucking threw it at you and you were bleeding all over the place? I would be wrong and we’d all be wrong, and the party would be done.’”
According to Banks, this is when Crowe proceeded to throw her out.
“He calls me a n*gger, and then grabs me, picks me up, he chokes me by the throat, picks me up, throws me out of the room and then spits on me. You don’t just spit on somebody. And in front of everybody.”
Crowe has since denied that this is how things went down. Banks has demanded an apology and his reps says he declined to say sorry because he does not feel like he did anything wrong. An unknown source released a statement saying,
“Azealia’s behaviour that night was abrasive, shocking, rude, offensive, abusive and erratic. She used the N-word repeatedly and hurled that insult at others repeatedly. Russell never used that word.”
Banks has since filed an report on Crowe. Eye witnesses have named Banks the culprit calling her behavior ‘erratic.’
Source: Complex
