Maren Morris claimed that a fan “grabbed my ass” during a meet-and-greet ahead of her Aug. 23 concert in Grand Rapids, Michigan: “Please don’t override someone’s personal space.”

Maren Morris is setting boundaries with her fans.

Following a recent performance of her Dreamsicle Tour in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the “My Church” singer alleged that a fan inappropriately groped her during an exclusive meet-and greet.

“Tonight’s show was so fun but someone grabbed my ass during meet and greet before the show,” Maren wrote on her Instagram Stories Aug. 23. “I’m going to continue them because one person shouldn’t ruin it for everyone.”

“Please know I’m there to connect, share, hug, all the things,” she continued, “but please don’t override someone’s personal space. Love you.”

This uncomfortable experience comes nearly two years after the 35-year-old finalized her divorce from Ryan Hurd—with whom she shares 5-year-old son Hayes—following five years of marriage.

And while the split was a difficult experience, Maren’s heartbreak ultimately became the musical inspiration behind her latest album.  

“I’m not documenting what happened during the relationship,” she told The Cut in May. “I’m documenting the grief, anger, and sadness that follows, and the vulnerability of putting yourself back out there again…of reconnecting with your female friends and yourself.”

But not all her songs are about her divorce. Indeed, the singer-songwriter recently revealed that many of her songs were also inspired by her son.

“He definitely inspired my song ‘Because of Course’ which was on my EP,” she told People of Hayes in March. “And I mean, whether the song is about him or not, these songs are all written after his existence. So whether I know it or not or intend it or not, he’s got something different about me now.”

Beyond navigating her coparenting relationship with Ryan, the musician has also been exploring her sexuality since coming out as bisexual last June. And as part of that journey, she’s found that the line between friendship and romantic connection can be hard to decipher.

“I have confusion sometimes because I can connect with a woman, any woman within like two minutes,” she explained during a May episode of the U Up? podcast. “We’ll be talking about our childhoods. We’ll be talking about the bully when we were 13. We will get into it so quickly. With a guy, that would take like years to get into that trauma.”

“That’s where I sometimes have the hard delineation of romance versus friendship because women can connect so quickly and easily, which is a magical thing about us,” she continued, “but that’s the comparison, I guess, to dating men.”

For more musicians who’ve experienced their own concert mishaps, keep reading…

Luke Bryan

During his finale performance of “Country Girl (Shake It For Me)” at the North Dakota State Fair in 2025, the American Idol judge was pelted with a flying object. However, the musician took it in stride, finishing the song without missing a beat. 

As one fan noted, “Carried on like a champ.”

The Jonas Brothers member had to send out an S.O.S and ask fans to stop throwing things on stage after two bracelets almost hit him at a California stop on the group’s tour in 2023. 

In case it wasn’t clear, Cardi B does not like it like that. When a front row patron splashed their drink on the performer mid-set at Drai’s Beachclub in Las Vegas July 2023, she responded by throwing her microphone. 

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement that an unidentified woman reported a battery case the day after the concert, but noted no arrest or citations have been issued. In August 2023, Cardi’s lawyers told TMZ that police informed them no chargers would be filed against the singer.

Baby, Bebe Rexha is gonna have the best f–kin’ night of her life no matter what happens. Struck in the face when a man at her June 2023 show in NYC threw a phone, she later posted a photo of her injured eye, writing, “I’m good.”

Todd A Spodek, a lawyer for Nicolas Malvagna, who was arrested and charged with assault, told TMZ, “As a fan, Mr. Malvagna’s sole intention was to have Ms. Rexha take photos with his phone, and return it as a keepsake. It was never his intention to injure Ms. Rehxa.”

Kelsea Ballerini didn’t find it all that charming when someone tossed jewelry up on stage during a June 2023 performance in Idaho. “Someone threw a bracelet, it hit me in the eyes,” she wrote on Instagram Stories days later, “and it more so just scared me than hurt me.”

Listen, she’s not that sweet. Ava Max had words for the man who assaulted her during an L.A. performance in June 2023. “He slapped me so hard that he scratched the inside of my eye,” the “Sweet but Psycho” singer wrote on Twitter. “He’s never coming to a show again.”

Pink thought the fan who randomly passed her a wheel of Brie while she was singing at at London’s British Summer Time Festival in 2023 was kinda grate. “What the f–k,” the musician said, as she reached for the dairy. “I wanna kiss you on the mouth.”

But just give us a reason for why another fan tossed a bag of ashes the very next day. “This is your mom?” the “What About Us” singer asked. “I don’t know how to feel about this.”

A sign of the times? Harry Styles had to get away from numerous flying objects during his Love on Tour, including, inexplicably, a handful of Skittles at a 2022 show in Los Angeles. A rep for the taste the rainbow brand later tweeted, “Didn’t think I needed to say this: Please don’t throw Skittles.”

What a boob. As Billie Eilish sang “Lost Cause” at a February 2022 show, one fan tossed a set of false boobs at her. But proving that she’s, uh, breast under pressure, the seven-time Grammy winner flung them back into the crowd and kept going. 

Uh, guys, he warned you. Moments after Kid Cudi told the crowd at his 2022 Rolling Loud set, “Yo, I’m going to walk off this stage, if y’all throw one more f–king thing up here, I will leave,” he was pegged with yet another object. So he left. 

Arianators were left feeling sour after Ariana Grande was beaned with a lemon while headlining Coachella in 2019. And though the singer was definitely not so into it, into it, into it, she brushed off the fruit, telling the crowd, “One of ya’ll threw a lemon at me, s–t.”

Source: www.eonline.com