AFL legend Nick Riewoldt has revealed he grabbed a \u201cw***er\u201d fan after they attacked and bloodied country singer Riley Green by throwing a phone at him during a gig on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Green, 37, was playing in front of a sold-out Margarent Court Arena when the ugly incident took place.<\/p>\n
He stopped the Melbourne show and said: \u201cCan we get the house lights on?\u201d<\/p>\n
Green then pointed to a man in the crowd and instructed: \u201cGet his a** out of here!\u201d<\/p>\n
The fan was promptly removed by security and was struck by a bottle on his way out of the building as a chorus of boos rang out from the crowd.<\/p>\n
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Now ex-St Kilda captain Riewoldt, 43, has elaborated on the altercation as he was in attendance to see it unfold.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had GA tickets because Cath (Riewoldt\u2019s wife) wanted to be on the floor,\u201d Riewoldt said on Triple M.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw this happen; it unfolded right in front of me. We wanted to be as close to the stage as possible. I pegged this bloke early on \u2014 the bloke who has eventually thrown his phone \u2014 as being a real w***er.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a loose cannon, he was real \u2018big energy\u2019 vibes. The sort of bloke that comes over, asks you for a photo, you pose for him, and then he starts heaping shit on you afterwards\u2026 he did this to me. He was filming (me) during the concert.\u201d<\/p>\n
Riewoldt went on to add: \u201cEventually, the second to last song finishes and out of nowhere he has launched – like he was trying to throw the stumps down from mid-wicket – his phone at Riley Green and hit him in in the head.<\/p>\n
Riewoldt joked it was \u201can amazing throw\u201d because he estimates the fan was between 10 and 15 metres away from the singer but still managed to \u201csmash Green in the side of the head\u201d.<\/p>\n
But despite not being in a position to stop the fan from throwing the phone, the former AFL star was quick to react to the violence.<\/p>\n
Riewoldt said: \u201cI was standing right behind him, so I grabbed him. He\u2019s done it and everyone was a bit shocked. Riley Green handled it pretty amazingly; he just said can we get the lights on.<\/p>\n
\u201cI pointed the guy out and within three seconds security came and grabbed him. Security whisked him off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Green carried on with the gig after the incident, but did not appear to realise the blood dripping down from his head onto his chest.<\/p>\n
After the concert, the American took to Instagram to reveal: \u201cFive stitches later… sewed up.\u201d<\/p>\n
He went on to add: \u201cOle buddy bout ran outta anytime minutes last night\u2026 but a hell of a time was had.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFL legend Nick Riewoldt has revealed he grabbed a \u201cw***er\u201d fan after they attacked and bloodied country singer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-544989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}