Rapper and singer CeeLo Green has taken to social media to assure fans that he's OK, following the emergence of CCTV footage from his studio that showed a phone exploding in his face.
One particular brand of mobile phone has been in the news in recent months for potentially posing a hazard to users for overheating and eventually exploding.
At first, it seemed that's what happened to the musician, who is pictured in the footage sitting at a control desk before answering a call. The phone begins smoking and then explodes, knocking Green violently off his chair and leaving him lying on the floor.
However.... he has since taken to Facebook to release a statement explaining that the whole thing was pretty much faked, and a clip from a music video from his new project Gnarly Davidson.
The post read:
"I just wanna let everyone know that I am alive and I’m well and I’m okay. Truthfully I’m really upset that anybody had to be emotionally disturbed by what they saw today. And actually what you saw today was a clip from a smaller video that we were shooting for a new project that I’m doing called, Gnarly Davidson. It’s supposed to set up and introduce the new character identity. Forgive me. I’m still gonna release the music, though. But for anyone that loves me and cares about me, I’m okay."
That's one way to announce your new project to the world, anyway.
