Leona Lewis is speaking out about a white shop owner threatening to call the police on her and her dad. Lewis, who won the U.K. “X Factor” in 2006, explained in an emotional instagram post how she was in a shop in Chelsea, London, noting that all the other customers were white, when the store owner began hovering around.
She shared, “Eventually, she [the shop owner] came up to my dad and I and said, ‘You need to put that stuff down, you’re not allowed to touch it.’ Every other person was picking stuff up, looking at it.
I immediately knew what was happening and I said to her, ‘Why? Everyone else is picking stuff up. Why do we have to put stuff down?
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