Ellie Goulding.Photo:Harry Herd/Redferns
Harry Herd/Redferns
Ellie Gouldingis learning the hard way that fireworks should always be set off at a safe distance away from people — including yourself.
During the British pop star’s performance at Victorious Festival in Portsmouth, England over the weekend, she was in the midst of singingCalvin Harriscollaboration “Miracle” when a firework went off on stage and appeared to hit her in the face.
Ellie Goulding.Rob Ball/Getty
Rob Ball/Getty
She then laughed, yelled “F—!” and finished the last five songs of the performance without a hitch. In fact, the Grammy nominee’s reaction to the moment was so subtle that many fans in attendance didn’t catch what happened.
“i went there yesterday i [saw] that but didn’t know she got hit,” wrote one fan in a TikTok comment, while another said, “omg i didn’t realise that’s why she laughed.”
A rep for Goulding did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
In an interview withPEOPLEearlier this year, the “Love Me Like You Do” singer-songwriter opened up about howwelcoming her son Arthur, 2, with husband Caspar Jopling in April 2021 has helped her longtime anxiety.
“At times it was debilitating… Being around Arthur automatically zaps [my anxiety] away, and I feel like it’s my body trying to mess with me because it’s saying, ‘We want you to be with Arthur all the time,’ biologically,” explained Goulding, who felt anxious pulling herself away from work as a new mom. “I’ve had no choice but to put myself and being a mother first, and then everything else I will do to the best of my ability.”
She also said that having the support of Jopling, 31, has helped her in low moments. “He’s way more rational and pragmatic than me,” Goulding said of her husband. “I delve constantly in the past and worry about the future. It makes for good songwriting, but it doesn’t make for good mental health.”
source: people.com
