Travis Scott ‘unaware of any fatalities’ until after concert, says Kylie Jenner
TRAVIS Scott and his partner Kylie Jenner said they were ‘devastated’ to learn that at least eight people, including teenagers, died after a chaotic crowd surge toward a stage where the rapper was performing at Friday’s Astroworld Festival in Houston.
Jenner, the cosmetics mogul and reality TV star, said the two were not aware of fatalities until after the show.
A video reconstruction by The Washington Post shows Scott’s concert continued despite desperate pleas for help from the crowd, stopping about an hour after concertgoers were in distress, with some yelling for help and trying to get officials to stop the show. Attendees described the chaos as like ‘hell’ and ‘partying in a graveyard’ as the music played on and the Apple Music live stream continued. Officials are investigating how the sold-out music festival turned deadly.
Jenner, 24, who is pregnant with the couple’s second child, wrote on her Instagram story early Sunday that she and Scott were ‘broken and devastated’ by the loss of life, and that they were praying for those ‘injured or affected.’
Jenner said she wanted to ‘make it clear’ they ‘weren’t aware of any fatalities until the news came out after the show.’ Jenner wrote that ‘filming’ and ‘performing’ would not have continued if they were fully aware of the scale of chaos unfolding among the 50,000person crowd.
Jenner was criticised on social media for posting video footage from the concert on her Instagram that also featured an ambulance attempting to navigate its way through the crowd to assist those in need of emergency care.