Icelandic pop star Björk attacked a photographer after she arrived in New Zealand’s Auckland International Airport, a report said on Monday.
The singer, who also attacked a reporter in 1996 after arriving at Bangkok Airport, apparently objected to her photo being taken after landing in Auckland on Sunday, the New Zealand Herald reported.
Herald photographer Glenn Jeffrey said his shirt was ripped all the way down the back by Björk, who was with a man who had asked Jeffrey not to take photos.
”I took a couple of pictures … and as I turned and walked away, she came up behind me, grabbed the back of my black skivvy [long T-shirt) and tore it down the back,” Jeffrey was reported saying in the Herald.
”As she did this she fell to the ground. At no stage did I touch her or speak with her,” he said.
The man accompanying the singer said to her: ”B, don’t do this, B don’t do this.”
The singer, who is due to play in a music festival on Friday in Auckland, said nothing during the incident, Jeffrey said.
He has spoken to the police about the attack, saying attacking a press photographer was unacceptable.
”If anybody assaults anybody you have the right to a legal recourse, whoever they are,” he said. – AFP
