Kelly Clarkson is feuding with a local Brooklyn \u201ccuriosity shop,\u201d a sentence we truly didn\u2019t expect to write on a random Monday in October, but here we are. The drama kicked off over the weekend, when Kelly hopped on Twitter and called out the store, explaining that she’d driven into Brooklyn and was treated rudely, before comparing the situation to THE classic Julia Roberts\u2019 scene in Pretty Woman (“BIG MISTAKE, HUGE,” you know the one).<\/p>\n
\u201cJust drove all the way to Brooklyn to check out this store I thought looked really rad and had a few things in mind to buy and literally was looked at as if I couldn\u2019t afford it and was told he could find something comparable for me,\u201d Kelly wrote. \u201cWow, dude. You\u2019re an idiot and just lost a huge sale. But y\u2019all should go check out Art of Play in Brooklyn if you enjoy being treated like Julia Roberts character in Pretty Woman. For sure, check it out.\u201d<\/p>\n
After a lot of discourse (some people were upset on Kelly’s behalf, others felt like she shouldn’t be publicly calling out a small business), Art of Play released a statement on their Instagram and claimed that the item Kelly wanted (a bird figurine) wasn’t for sale.<\/p>\n
They also wrote, \u201cImagine our surprise when our small local business was suddenly attacked by 8 million people who have never visited our store. It\u2019s been a surreal experience to be the focus of such widespread outrage after just one mention by a celebrity. Thanks to all our friends for their support and welcome to all the curious folks who have discovered us amidst the drama. We\u2019re going to keep our heads down and hopefully, we can clear things up with Kelly someday. As a talented popular singer once said, \u2018what doesn\u2019t kill you makes you stronger.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Cut back to Kelly, who wasn’t having it.<\/p>\n
She once again logged on, claiming the bird she wanted *was* for sale, while quipping \u201cyou\u2019re not only rude, you\u2019re also a liar.\u201d Kelly then defended herself against people calling her out for coming after small businesses, writing \u201cAnd by the way, I obviously support small businesses because I was literally at a small business trying to purchase things. I love small businesses and know they are important and I always support them, but you don\u2019t get a free pass to treat people less than in your store just because you are a small business. It\u2019s not that hard to be kind. I never blast people but you my friend were an exception. Your store is really cool. Unfortunately, you aren\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Art of Play also wasn’t done! They hopped back on Instagram to \u201cclarify one additional detail,\u201d saying they explained to Kelly that the item she wanted was for sale elsewhere, and noting that they offered her a different\/similar bird \u201cmade by a traditional clockmaking shop in Germany\u201d but \u201cshe did not stick around long enough to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n
They ended their second statement with, \u201cWe\u2019ve reached out to Kelly directly to try and clear the air. We really do wish her the best and hope that someday we can all laugh about this misunderstanding.\u201d<\/p>\n
Honestly, this reminds me of Demi Lovato vs. the frozen yogurt shop. Take me back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelly Clarkson is feuding with a local Brooklyn \u201ccuriosity shop,\u201d a sentence we truly didn\u2019t expect to write…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,567,136828,569,136827,83931,568,9,24,63,57826,136826,108292,50625],"class_list":["post-370960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-000a6e75-3faf-4a8e-afdd-74c2d9bd7b7d","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-for-those-confused","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-read_time-3","tag-shorttitle-kelly-clarkson-vs-art-of-play","tag-sponsored-false","tag-subsection-celebs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}