Diana Ross Claims She Was 'Violated' By TSA at New Orleans Airport: 'Makes Me Want to Cry!'

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Diana Rosssays she was left feeling “violated” and on the brink of tears after an aggressive TSA pat-down at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.

The legendary songstress, 75, was in town to perform Saturday at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

Ross’ time on stage went off without a hitch, and she wrote on Twitter that she had “an incredible night” – but things took a turn at the airport.

“OK so on one hand I’m treated like royalty in New Orleans and at the airport I was treated like s—,” shewroteon Twitter.

“Let me be clear, not the [people] or Delta BUT TSA, was over the top!! Makes me want to cry!!!”

“It’s not what was done but how, I am feeling violated,” she wrote. “I still feel her hands between my legs, front and back (saying to me it her job). WOW!! Really mixed emotions I always like to see the good things but not feeling good right now.”

“I’m feeling better, it took a minute,” she wrote.

Ross waspreviously arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport in 1999after getting into an altercation with a female security guard whom the star claimed touched her inappropriately.

“I travel a lot. The security checks usually use metal detectors,” she said at the time. “This woman went all around my body and up and down my legs. I felt very uncomfortable. I wanted to complain, but no one listened to me.”

In response, Ross asked the guard, “How would you feel in this situation?” and touched her, prompting the guard to complain and Ross to be arrested.

source: people.com