Halsey recalled a “powerful” music executive looking through their nude photos without their consent on Wednesday’s episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast.
“I had a really strange situation a couple years ago,” the singer — who uses she/they pronouns —said.
“I guess it was quite a long time ago, but I was out and I was with this executive, this really powerful executive who works in music in some capacity.”
The privacy violation occurred when the exec asked if Halsey would take a photo with him for his niece. The “Without Me” hitmaker obliged, but the situation took a turn for the worse after she allowed him to hold their phone.
The singer — who uses she/they pronouns — recalled “hanging out” with the businessman when he asked to take a picture together so he could send it to his niece.
“I took a selfie of the two of us and I handed him my phone and I was like, ‘Text it to yourself. I have to pee,’” Halsey recalled.
“And then I went to the bathroom and when I came back, he handed me my phone like this,” she continued, mimicking putting an imaginary phone down without showing the screen.
“And I saw he was going through my nudes on my phone.”
The uncomfortable situation left the “Bad at Love” singer unsure of what to do next.“I was just frozen. I was like, ‘Did I just imagine that? Was that an accident? Did the phone scroll up? What the heck just happened?’” Halsey said.
“And then I was like, ‘Did he text them to himself and then delete the messages? I don’t even know where these are now.’”
“I’m in this situation where I have so much power,” she continued. “I have a bodyguard and I have, you know, all the leverage in the world and I’m in this exclusive space in this VIP, I’ve reached the ranks of like, ‘Oh, I am protected or whatever else it may be.’ And then this invasive thing just happens on a whim.”
“So many worse things have happened to me than that, but that one stuck out for some reason because it was so nonchalant.”
