New York Daily News

‘Triggered’ by Eminem ‘gun’ blasts

- Kate Feldman

EMINEM’S Bonnaroo performanc­e was a little too real for some fans.

The rapper (photo) closed out a performanc­e of “Kill You” on Saturday with a series of gunshot noises, as he has done for years, but the scary sounds were too much for some concertgoe­rs to handle in the current climate.

“I hate to be the one to say it, but being someone who suffers from very mild PTSD, it was EXTREMELY irresponsi­ble and distastefu­l to end songs w the shot gun sound effect i have grown up loving Eminem and his music but I was extremely triggered to the point of tears,” YouTube star Andrea Russett, 22, wrote in now-deleted tweets.

In October, 58 people were killed and 851 injured when Stephen Paddock opened fire on a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. Twenty-two people were killed in a suicide bombing at Ariana Grande’s Manchester concert in May 2017 and 89 people died in a terrorist attack at the Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Bataclan theatre in Paris in November 2015.

A rep for Eminem did not return a request for comment.

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