Leona Lewis was kicked out of a shop by racist shopkeeper

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Singer Leona Lewis has revealed she was kicked out of a shop by a racist shopkeeper just weeks before her book signing attack.

Leona, 24, was recently attacked by a man while at a book signing at a London store.

She has since revealed that just weeks earlier, she was kicked out of a shop in London with her Guyanese dad Joe because of their skin colour.

She said "I went into a shop while my dad waited outside because he was on the phone. I picked out a few photo frames, put them on the side to buy them and asked the lady who worked there about some other stuff in the shop.

"She was incredibly standoffish with me and I couldn't understand why. I went up to the till and, at that point, my dad came in and started looking around. He picked something up and said: 'What about this?'

"I asked how much it was, but the woman told us to get out of the shop. I just couldn't believe what I was hearing and said: 'Excuse me?' She said: 'Get out of my store right now.' I looked at her and asked: 'Are you joking?'

"She said: 'No, I want both of you to remove yourselves from my store.' I asked her what she meant, and why, and she said: 'I don't like the look of him.'

"Pointing at my dad, she said: 'I want him to go right now.' Stunned, I asked her: 'What do you mean, you don't like the look of him?' She said: 'You know exactly what I mean. He's been standing outside my shop and I want him to go. I know why you're coming in here.'

"She was implying that we were trying to steal stuff. She came up to my face, this close."

She added: "I was crying and bawling. My dad said: 'Come on, let's go.' I said: 'No. I'm going to call the police. This is racism.'"

source: Splash News


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