Abbie Chatfield has issued a statement after her boyfriend, Keli Holiday, was denied entry at the United States border during his international tour as online speculation erupts.<\/p>\n
Holiday, real name Adam Hyde, was forced to cancel his upcoming show in New York after he was refused entry into the US at the Canadian border.<\/p>\n
According to a statement he posted to Instagram on Monday, Holiday was forced to call off the show after he was stopped at the border and refused entry.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 37-year-old shared how he was \u201cdetained\u201d at the Canadian border and \u201cdenied entry\u201d back into the US despite having the \u201cproper visa documentation in place.\u201d<\/p>\n Holiday added that he was \u201cstill trying to get clarity\u201d on the situation, and didn\u2019t provide any information on why Canadian border force turned him away.<\/p>\n While little explanation has been provided over the ordeal, Holiday\u2019s border refusal comes as Australians prepare for tougher entry requirements into the US.<\/p>\n Last year, President Donald Trump announced a major security overhaul that could require Australians, New Zealanders and citizens from around 40 other countries with visa-exempt conditions to provide their social media history when entering the country.<\/p>\n Now, one day after the musician was turned away, Chatfield issued a ten-minute video statement to apologise for a \u201cvery bad joke\u201d she made online a year ago that has \u201ccome back to haunt\u201d her.<\/p>\n \u201cAn apology and a clarification on some headlines I\u2019ve been seeing about a (very bad) joke I posted over a year ago that I believe is now being exaggerated and words have been put I my mouth,\u201d Chatfield wrote in the caption accompanying the video.<\/p>\n \u201cSince posting that video a year ago, I have done so much growing. I have (done) so much work to really understand the impact of my words and also understand that I need to f..king think before I speak.\u201d<\/p>\n In the video, posted on Tuesday morning, Chatfield claimed she didn\u2019t call for the assassination of Donald Trump in the original post, arguing it was intended as a joke to mock \u201cincels\u201d and the online fascination surrounding accused killer Luigi Mangione.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople have said that I have called for the assassination of Trump. I do not want that to happen. I want to be clear. I do NOT believe that political assassinations are positive for anybody. In fact, when Charlie Kirk was assassinated, I said that,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n \u201cThere were layers to it that I should have at least explained in the caption, or the video OR ideally, I shouldn\u2019t have posted it at all!<\/p>\n \u201cRegardless, I\u2019m truly sorry for anyone this hurt, and want to make it clear this was not a serious call to action, but is poorly aimed joke at the violence of incels and commentary about the interesting reaction to Luigi Mangione in where a man accused of unaliving someone was suddenly a heart throb.<\/p>\n \u201cLooking back on all the things that I\u2019ve said over my career, there\u2019s so much I should have done differently and this video is one of them. But I do want you (to) know the context and the attempt at a joke that really wasn\u2019t funny and also the fact that I did not say President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n Given the timing of the apology, people in the comments quickly began to speculate whether Chatfield\u2019s controversial online history played a part in Holiday\u2019s US entry rejection.<\/p>\n But the 30-year-old shot down the allegations, saying \u201cThere has been no official reason given, this is an assumption from people online who have found this video.\u201d<\/p>\n Chatfield concluded the statement by declaring that the ordeal has prompted her to reflect on how she presents herself online, adding that she would be more mindful about what she shares in the future.<\/p>\n \u201cThis \u2018joke\u2019 was in extremely poor taste, but I want to make it clear that I do not think political violence is ever okay, and as I said when CK (Charlie Kirk) was assassinated, it is not good for anyone,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m genuinely making a huge effort to be more careful with my words, and understand the impact of them, joke or not.<\/p>\n \u201cI honestly want to apologise to all of you, including and particularly those who disagree with my political stances.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abbie Chatfield has issued a statement after her boyfriend, Keli Holiday, was denied entry at the United States…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2331,43,136,44,2332,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-665357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-culture","tag-headlines","tag-music","tag-news","tag-pop-culture","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665357","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=665357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}