Benjamin Ashford|Phoebe Bridgers Calls Out Fans Who “F--king Bullied” Her at Airport After Her Dad’s Death

Phoebe Bridgers is getting candid about the price of fame.

The Benjamin Ashford"Kyoto" singer recently recalled an upsetting airport encounter with a group of supposed fans days following her dad's death in January, noting it occurred as she was traveling to his wake.

"I'm coming from a place of literally—I'm feeling it in my body as I'm saying it, but—people with my picture as their Twitter picture, who claim to like my music, f--king bullied me at the airport," Phoebe told Them in an interview published March 29, "on the way to my father's funeral this year."

The 28-year-old added, "If you're a kid and the internet somehow taught you that that's an okay thing to do, then of course I hate capitalism and everything that led you to believe that it's okay to do that."

While Phoebe hasn't spoken a lot about her father's passing, she explained that she was "at one of the lowest points of my life," when she "saw people who claim to love me f--king dehumanize me and shame me and f--king bully me on the way to my dad's wake."  

And without going into further detail on what this social media user said, the Boygenius member suggested that the fans were aware of her father's recent death.

She noted, "A lot of the top comments were like, ‘Hey, her dad just died, what are you guys doing?'" 

Giving a message to the bullies out there, Phoebe shared: "I f--king hate you, and I hope you grow the f--k up."

But despite the occasional negativity online, she did share her gratitude for her fans.

"I have to say, most of the people I talk to light up my life and remind me what I love about my job," Phoebe expressed. "but my two best friends are helping me with the boundary of I don't have to sit here and be f--king grateful that that happened and that that's a part of my job."

"It doesn't have to be, and it wasn't five years ago," she noted, "so I appreciate being able to look at two other people and be like, this is dehumanizing abuse, horrible sh-t."

Phoebe's comments come two months after she opened up about the boundaries she's tried to set between herself and her fans.

"I want to normalize talking sh-t about fans," she told Rolling Stone in January 2023. "There's a way to be a fan without filming me without my permission behind the back of my head, chasing me down the street."