Beyonce spoke without saying a word…✔️ ✔️ pic.twitter.com/UMHppMrHmq
— Complex (@Complex) June 6, 2019
The internet can be a confusing, scary place sometimes. In the aftermath of the Warriors’ Game 3 NBA Finals loss to the Toronto Raptors, there was backlash thrown in the way of Nicole Curran, the wife of Warriors owner Joe Lacob for what “happened” in the video above.
In the video, Curran looks over and says something to Jay-Z, across his wife, Beyonce. Curran then leans over again to say something to Jay-Z in an Oracle Arena that was at times deafening on Wednesday night. According to the internet, Beyonce was some version of “not having it,” based on her at-worst bemused expression.
According to ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne, Curran was asking what drinks the couple wanted. Both Jay-Z and Beyonce have been seen at multiple Warriors games in the past.
Curran said she had no idea anything was even amiss until she got home and started seeing texts from friends and checked her social media. She’s invited Jay Z and Beyoncé to the game 3-4 times before. Last night she says she asked if they wanted drinks. Beyoncé asked for water
— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) June 6, 2019
The repeated look over from Curran was apparently to verify whether Jay-Z wanted lime in his vodka soda. That act is the one that some on the internet interpreted as a heinous act against Beyonce.
Curran says Jay Z asked for a vodka soda. She asked if he wanted lime with that. But it was loud in Oracle and she couldn’t hear, so she leaned over. That’s where the photos of Beyoncé looking askance at her come from.
— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) June 6, 2019
The ridiculousness of the internet’s reaction to the non-situation is multiplied by the fact that Curran was so consistently harassed and, according to Shelburne, received multiple death threats, that she was “in tears” and deleted her Instagram account.
Just spoke to Nicole Curran, the wife of Warriors owner Joe Lacob, about the “incident “ with Beyoncé last night. She was in tears. Said she had been getting death threats on social media all night this morning she disabled her IG account just to make it stop.
— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) June 6, 2019
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