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Riley Utley

After Hitting Bebe Rexha With Phone During Concert, Arrested Fan Appears To Change Story About Why It Happened

Bebe Rexha talking to the camera from the flower set of her music video Sabotage.

At concerts, singers will occasionally grab a phone from someone in the first few rows so they can snap a fun selfie. Normally, it’s a safe handover. However, at a Bebe Rexha concert, a fan decided to throw his phone at the singer, and he hit her in the face. Now, Todd Spodek is claiming that his client Nicolas Malvagna wasn’t trying to hurt Rexha by throwing his phone, he just wanted to get a fun photo with the pop star.

Bebe Rexha was hit in the face with the phone, and now she has a black eye and stitches. Following the situation, Nicolas Malvagna was arraigned "on misdemeanor charges of harassment and assault," per NBC News. The Manhattan D.A. claimed that he said he was trying to see if he could hit the singer with his phone “because it would be funny.” Now, it appears his reason has changed as his lawyer told TMZ the following: 

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