Billie Joe Armstrong was forced to leave a Southwest Airlines flight on September 1 after he refused to pull up his pants, US Magazine is reporting. The Green Day frontman was preparing for take-off on the flight from Oakland to Burbank, California when a flight attendant approached him and asked him to pull his pants up.
Armstrong refused, asking “Don’t you have better things to do than worry about that?” The flight attendant repeated the request, and the singer responded by saying “I’m just trying to get to my f**cking seat!”
The singer and his companion were then removed from the flight. Armstrong later tweeted about the incident, saying “Just got kicked off a Southwest flight because my pants sagged too low! What the f**k? No joke!”
Southwest Airlines tweeted an apology in response, saying “Very sorry for your experience tonight, someone from our Customer Relations Team will reach out to you to get more details.” The airline then released a statement, saying as soon as airline officials learned of Armstrong’s ordeal, they reached out to him to apologize. “He elected to take the next flight. We followed up with this Customer and involved Employees to get more details and, in our latest conversations, understand from the Customer the situation was resolved to his satisfaction.”
Written by: Karen Benardello
