Patti LaBelle stops show over rude fan

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One of Patti LaBelle’s trademark bits in concert is to kick up her leg and flip a high heel shoe straight up into the air. Recently, she flipped more than her shoe. It looks like she flipped her wig over a somewhat unfunny comment made by a fan she’d invited onstage to dance with her. She joked that he was dancing too close and the fan (who some commenters have presumed is gay) shot back, “I think you wanted it more than I did.” Decide for yourself whether she overreacted. (I don’t think she did, myself. His comment presumed that Labelle was sexually interested in him and that’s more than a little insulting.)

Here’s a partial transcript, and you can catch the full video of LaBelle's blow up after the break.

Patti: (Joking to audience) You know he was dancing too close to me.
Fan: I think you wanted it more than I did.

At this point Patti motions for the music to stop and backs up the truck, so to speak.

Patti: What did you just say?
Fan: You heard me
Patti: You leave (points back to audience). No, you leave because you’re rude. You’re very freakin’ rude! Okay? I don’t play that.
Fan: (sheepishly) Okay.
Patti: No this is not okay. I don’t play that, okay? Do you know who I am?
Fan: I know who you are.
Patti: Who am I?
Fan: Patti LaBelle
Patti: And what does that mean to you? Nothing? You disrespect a black woman like that in front of people like this? How dare you! How dare you! (Grabs his microphone out of his hand) Gimme the mic. Now go to your seat. Just go.

The fan leaves the stage.

Patti: ‘I want it more than you?’ What does that mean?

Patti goes on to talk with the audience about it and decides that maybe the fan didn’t mean to be so hurtful. Take a look at the vid and tell us what you think. LaBelle overreacting, or rightly incensed?