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The show must go on.
Bebe Rexha returned to the stage for the first time since a fan hurled a cellphone at her face during a show in New York City and begged concertgoers to refrain from committing a copycat attack.
The 33-year-old “I’m Good (Blue)” singer addressed the shocking caught-on-video incident as she welcomed a crowd at The Fillmore in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood Tuesday night.
She had asked stagehands to tidy up some wires on the floor of the stage — saying she almost “ate s–t like three times” according to a video posted by the Q102 Philly radio station.
“I can’t get another bruise,” Rexha then said referring to the black eye she suffered from the phone smashing into her face over the weekend.
“Are we going to have a good show tonight? Yes, we f–king are,” she said. “Can we let people slow us down, Philly? No. Just no phones on my face tonight please, I beg of you.”
Rexha was performing on stage at Manhattan’s Pier 17 Rooftop Sunday night when an unruly fan, Nicolas Malvagna, allegedly chucked his phone at her face — striking her above the eye.
The singer-songwriter was left bloodied and bruised and went to a local hospital, where she was given stitches to an open cut above her left eye.
Video taken by an audience member shows the phone flying through the air and striking Rexha in the face — causing her to recoil, clutch her cheek and sink to the floor in pain.
Malvagna, 27, was arrested and charged with assault, aggravated harassment, attempted assault and harassment following the concert.
“I was trying to see if I could hit her with the phone at the end of the show because it would be funny,” he said, according to a criminal complaint.
The New Jersey resident’s lawyer later told The Post that he didn’t mean to hurt the star.
“As a fan, Mr. Malvagna’s sole intention was to have Ms. Rexha take photos with his phone, and return it as a keepsake,” attorney Todd Spodek said in a statement. “It was never his intention to injure Ms. Rehxa.”
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