Another day, another chapter in the ongoing feud between Kelly Clarkson and Art of Play over a $15,000 animatronic bird named Molly. Today’s update? Footage of Kelly’s visit to the Brooklyn magic shop just leaked.
Pablo Torre released the footage on YouTube, and it shows Kelly’s visit to the store pretty clearly. While there isn’t any audio, we see Kelly wander around the store before laying eyes on Molly the Bird (whose silence on this, by the way, is deafening). Kelly then speaks to someone working at the shop, who points at something. Kelly then starts to leave the store, before turning around and gesticulating to the person behind the cash register. Camera footage from outside the store shows her taking out her phone. She posted the below tweet about 15 minutes later:
There’s been a lot of back and forth between Kelly and Art of Play that you can get caught up on over here, but the shop’s co-owner Adam Rubin just told Page Six “It’s a pop star, a mechanical bird, it’s surreal. When this thing first started, everybody wanted us to die. And as the truth has come to light, thinking people realize this is reprehensible abuse of power. We have to reconsider the place we give celebrities in our society.”
He added, in part, “She knew what was going to happen. She knew that the entire pressure of her millions and millions of fans around the world were going to come to the service of their queen and weaponize themselves and debase themselves on behalf of a millionaire they have never met.”