Ammara Brown has spoken of the her horror when a crowd of men groped her as she walked to the stage at the Glamis Arena. “Usually th...
Ammara Brown has spoken of the her horror when a crowd of men groped her as she walked to the stage at
the Glamis Arena.
“Usually there’ll have the stage on a certain side and
there’s the artistes’ entrance. I got there and when I got to the usual
entrance the policeman recognised me and he was like Ammara come inside, come
inside.
“As I walked in I was like, no wait, there’s the VIP
entrance right there but the stage is like on the other side of the field. So
the security, I don’t know if he was feeling excited or was just feeling like
I’ve got Ammara so I’m going to help her out, which was beautiful blessed be,
but in my mind I’m seeing thousands of people and surely there’s another
entrance and he’s about to take me that route,” she told fans during a live
broadcast on Facebook last Friday morning.
“He walks me through the VIP area and go down those
staircase and hey . . . the entry point that he takes me to is basically
through the audience and I’m like maiwe what’s going to happen today because
he’s one man.
We start walking through and obviously people are facing
the other direction because that’s where the stage is and I’m like maybe I can
get through but I sold myself dreams because in a minute, not even a minute
because a minute is too long, but in a few seconds one person was like Ammara
Brown . . . before I knew it there was this like a swarm of men around me . . .
it was just havoc. All of a sudden all kinds of strangers started groping me
and grabbing me in like the worst way,” she said.
“I was so traumatised and I was being pulled this way and
that way and I’m screaming and I’m fighting and I’m so scared. Like literally
my clothes were going to be ripped apart, that’s how bad it was. I remember
this monya hit someone and he flew a metre. It was bad and they literally
carried me over the bars by the stage and I came out of there shaking and in
three seconds I realised what had happened and I cried my eyes out,” she said.
“I had never been so disrespected. I had never been so
humiliated and scared. Scared, scared, scared. (I was) scared for my life,
scared for my body and scared just for my peace. That for me was horrible on
two levels because aside from just being molested in public and I’m grateful I
had those men who stood up for me because there are those of you who will not
stand a woman being abused in that way in public and so recklessly . . . ,” she
said.
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