Sheryl Crow Recalls Getting ‘Disgusting’ Human Feces Thrown at Her During Woodstock ‘99 Performance: ‘It Was So Disturbing’

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A real s—t show? Sheryl Crow got candid about her experience at Woodstock ‘99 — and the incident that made her leave the infamous music festival.“It was debauched from the beginning because we were on the first day.

You could look out and see girls who were topless on guys’ shoulders, trying to get the MTV camera to sweep around in front of them and get on TV,” Crow, 60, said during an episode of the “Fly on the Wall” podcast on Wednesday, October 26.According to the singer, the event took a turn for the worse during her performance. “They were already throwing s—t from the outhouses that were not set up right, that were leaking,” she shared about the “disgusting” moment. “At one point, some landed on my hand while I was playing bass during ‘My Favorite Mistake.’ That’s when we stopped.

We played about four songs, and I remember saying, ‘Nah, not gonna do it.'”The upstate New York music festival made headlines earlier this year after Netflix released a docuseries titled Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99.

The documentary explored how the revival of the original Woodstock festival ended with arson-filled riots and multiple reported sexual assaults.For Crow, it wasn’t easy to relive her experience while watching the film. “I watched part of [the documentary] on the airplane a couple of days ago.