BOSTON — A rapper with the Grammy-nominated club act LMFAO said former Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney first touched himand not the other way around — during a confrontation aboard an Air Canada flight that was preparing to take off from Vancouver, British Columbia.
Sky Blu, whose given name is Skyler Gordy, said in a video posted Friday on that he was trying to go to sleep when he leaned his seat back in the coach section of the Vancouver-to-Los Angeles flight Monday. He said Romney loudly told him several times to straighten it, as is required until takeoff. Then, he said, Romney grabbed his shoulder.
“I just react — boom — get off me, you know,” Gordy said in the video. “And I didn’t take it any further than that.”
Gordy said that Romney’s wife, Ann, screamed and that the plane returned to the gate before two police officers escorted him off. After being detained briefly, he was allowed to buy a ticket for another flight. The Associated Press
