On Saturday night at a concert in LA, Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme kicked a female photographer’s camera into her face as she took pictures of the band. A video posted to social media, along with photos Lauren took of Homme, appear to show that the action was deliberate.

Lauren described the incident as “obviously very intentional” to Variety, saying “I saw him coming over and I was shooting away. He looked straight at me, swung his leg back pretty hard and full-blown kicked me in the face”. She says that she will file a police report and that her eyebrow was bruised and her neck sore.

Following the incident, Homme posted a statement on the band’s Twitter, saying that he was “lost in a state of performance” and that it didn’t come to his attention until that day that the “lighting and various equipment” that he kicked onstage included Lauren’s camera. He said that he would never intentionally harm anyone at his show and later posted a very emotional video to the account apologising to her and, bizarrely, his mum, dad, wife, brother, and kids. He added that he understood if Lauren did “whatever she had to do”.

His erratic behaviour on Saturday also included cutting his face with a knife, saying “fuck Muse”, and calling the audience “retards”. Kicking Chelsea Lauren is also not the first time Homme has been accused of offensive onstage behaviour, after being accused of homophobia back in 2008 that he excused by saying “I also told that young whipper snapper I’d have anal sex with him” and that “I never have been nor intend to be politically correct”.

See Chelsea Lauren’s Instagram post below and Josh Homme’s written apology.