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BEST: “Assembly Sting was actually a mind-changing expertise. My complete life, he had a repute of being dismissive to followers and refusing to signal issues for individuals, and my mother actually didn’t like him as an individual due to it. I labored in occasions, and the corporate I labored for had a consumer operate at a lodge within the metropolis. Sting walked right into a bunch of fanfare and went straight to the foyer, ignoring everyone. In my thoughts, he proved my mom proper. Later that night time, when everybody was downstairs on the bar, a colleague got here up behind Sting as he sat within the foyer and principally grabbed him by his shoulders. Sting was upset and went upstairs for the night time. The subsequent day, round lunch, after I snuck exterior for a cig, he was within the foyer studying a e book. I quietly approached him and supplied an apology for the conduct the earlier night time. By no means talked about his music (though I’m a fan), simply addressed him as an individual.”
“He was very soft-spoken and requested me about how the occasion went and what I did. He was very sort to me. What I took away from the entire thing was that celebrities are individuals first, celebrities second. He didn’t dismiss me as a result of I didn’t ask him to be Sting. I spoke to him as Gordon Sumner.”
—diddleyboop420