What’s up?
It’s Sussan Mourad here with Clevver News and K-Pop star Irene from the group Red Velvet
just posted a lengthy apology following accusations about her hurtful and disrespectful behavior.
If you aren’t familiar with Red Velvet, they are a hugely successful K-Pop group that
has been putting out hits since 2014.
The five members are Irene, Seulgi, Wendy, Joy, and Yeri.
Red Velvet has made history on multiple occasions like when they were the first K-pop girl group
to chart their debut single on the Billboard Digital charts, and their music videos also
rake in hundreds of millions of views on YouTube.
But one of the Red Velvet members has been facing some controversy and backlash this
week since an editor and stylist posted about their negative attitude and overall hurtful
behavior.
According to the outlet Soompi, it all started when the stylist made an accusation on Instagram
about being bullied by a very famous female K-Pop star.
The stylist said that they were harassed and humiliated by the star to the point where
they were brought to tears.
All KPop’s translation of the post said that the stylist wrote, “I should have prepared
myself from the stories I've heard before I met her.
But today, I became speechless as this person stung me with her words.
... I had to stand there like a fool without anything I could do.
This person did not give me time to understand the situation.
This person didn't even give me a chance to explain myself because she can't hear anything.
I've experienced all sorts of people in this field for 15 years.
I thought I had experienced everything in life and thought I had let everything go,
but I was wrong.”
In the post, the stylist also revealed that the situation got so bad that they secretly
recorded the bullying for their own protection.
The stylist’s now deleted post included the hashtags “#psycho” and “#monster”
which are two Red Velvet songs.
So this led to speculation about who the subject of the post was, with many people pointing
out that the song Monster in particular is by the sub-unit composed of Irene and Seulgi.
Fans grew suspicious that it could be about Irene when that same stylist also deleted
a nice post they had written about Irene from 2016.
People also started to wonder why Irene would’ve acted the way she did, with the outlet KoreaBoo!
pointing out that Irene recently had a wardrobe malfunction during Red Velvet’s performance
at the Gangnam K-Pop Festival.
At the start of their performance, Irene’s transmitter fell off and she had to carry
it the remainder of the number.
You can see Irene stop and pick it up and continue to dance...
And she did carry it in her hand for the remainder of the performance.
Regardless of if that was the reason though, it’s never ok to treat people with disrespect
and Irene was the first to admit that.
She took to Instagram to issue a formal apology for her behavior and we did our best to translate
the post into English but we’ll also show her original post here.
Irene wrote quote, “I am sincerely sorry for hurting the stylist with my foolish attitude
and careless words and actions.
Getting to this spot in my career involved help from many people who worked together
with me, but my immature actions caused great hurt and I regret that and I am reflecting.”
She continued on saying, “I’ve been looking back on the past because of this, and I feel
very embarrassed of my lacking words and actions and I once again feel how precious the staff
are.
I will be more cautious about my actions in the future so that this does not happen again.
I am sincerely sorry to the fans who support me and to everyone who has been caused concern
because of this.”
And Red Velvet’s management group SM Entertainment also released a statement about this situation.
SM Entertainment said quote, “Irene personally met with the stylist this afternoon and sincerely
apologized for deeply hurting her with her careless attitude and emotional words and
actions, and she feels sorry for causing concern with her immaturity.”
They continued on saying “Our agency feels responsibility for this incident, and we do
not forget the hard work of all the representatives and staff who work together with our company
and our artists.
We will work hard so that this does not happen again to the people we work with.
We once again apologize for causing concern to many people.”
So there you have it.
It looks Irene was the subject of that stylist’s post after all and it sounds like she’s
learned from this going forward.
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Also, let us know down in the comments below what you think of Irene’s apology.
I’m your host Sussan Mourad, bye guys!