Watch Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme Kick Photographer In The Face

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Photographer Chelsea Lauren is claiming on Instagram that she had to spend the night in the hospital after Josh Homme kicked her in the face during a Queens of the Stone Age performance in Los Angeles last night.

She wrote, “Thanks to @joshhomme @queensofthestoneage I now get to spend my night in the ER. Seriously, WHO DOES THAT?!? #joshhomme.” Someone commented that she should contact a lawyer, and she responded: “You’re probably right.”

She told Variety, “Josh was coming over and I was pretty excited, I’ve never actually photographed Queens Of The Stone Age before, I was really looking forward to it. I saw him coming over and I was shooting away,” she said. “The next thing I know his foot connects with my camera and my camera connects with my face, really hard. He looked straight at me, swung his leg back pretty hard and full-blown kicked me in the face. He continued performing, I was startled, I kind of stopped looking at him, I just got down and was holding my face because it hurt so badly.”

Watch video below.

Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme was asked about Kyuss fans and other old school ‘purists’ criticizing him for working with pop producer Mark Ronson in a new Current interview.

OAKE: So, it’s not necessarily you dictating? I know a lot of the old-school purists, especially if they go all the way back to Kyuss, when they heard the name Mark Ronson, a lot of people were like: “What the hell has happened to my band? What’s going on?” Were you surprised by the backlash?

HOMME: No, I was expecting it. It would be safe to understand that I might have known that that was going to happen. I do believe that there’s no stasis or static in life. You’re growing or dying. And, I feel if I’m challenging myself and if we’re challenging each other, we’re going in the right direction. The by-product of that is that anyone that’s into us should expect the poke in the chest because we’re doing it to ourselves first. Part of me thinks that every time we put something out, we may lose 20 percent of the people. That 20 percent of the people might go: “It’s changed! Where’s my band that I had?” You can pre-suppose that. I told this to Ronson, “If 15 percent of the people don’t hate you, you suck.” He said: “I’m just trying to get it to 40.”