(CNN) -- Reality TV star Tila Tequila suffered facial cuts when she was pelted with rocks and bottles while performing at a music festival in Illinois early Saturday, according to a witness and a law enforcement official. "She's pretty cut up," said a performer who saw the violence at the "Gathering of the Juggalos" in rural Hardin County, Illinois. The witness asked not to be identified so that he does not anger the juggalos.
Tequila offered her descriptions of the events in an online statement.
"I went onstage and immediately, before I even got on stage, dudes were throwing huge stone rocks in my face, beer bottles that slit my eye open, almost burnt my hair ... cuz they threw fire crackers on stage," she wrote.
The witness, who was standing in the rear of the stage, said the crowd of about 2,000 was immediately angry toward Tequila and she was unable to turn them around.
"She was taunting them," he said. "She didn't know how to handle them. She didn't understand the dynamic."
The rocks and bottles flew harder and faster when Tequila bared her breasts, he said.
"She took her top off and they got really violent," he said.
Tequila continued to perform even after her face started bleeding, he said. "She was holding a towel to her head, blood pouring down her face," he said. "It was scary as hell!" Tequila wrote.
This was not the only violent incident at the festival early Saturday, Seiner said.
A 49-year-old Georgia man was arrested for allegedly stabbing another man in the abdomen just hours earlier, he said.
Brilliant. People are throwing things at you, and you bare the only part of your anatomy that could conceivably look precisely like target practice to a drunk at a distance. What could go wrong?
Wow that's pretty scary shit, actually. If I ever had beer bottles and shit thrown in my direction, I woulda flipped them the bird & told them to fuck off, and walk off the stage rather than continue performing while risking getting myself really injured then.
Personally IMO, if a crowd doesn't want to show appreciation for your work, they don't deserve a show then. (I'm not of course going to comment on questionable performers such as Tila or Paris Hilton, but this is rather directed at shows of any kind in general)
GratefulFan wrote: "Brilliant. People are throwing things at you, and you bare the only part of your anatomy that could conceivably look precisely like target practice to a drunk at a distance. What could go wrong?"
Are you really that surprised? Her name is Tila Tequila afterall. :D