Kelly Rowland explains her viral Cannes purple-carpet confrontation: ‘I have a boundary’

Kelly Rowland is speaking out just after her heated exchange on the Cannes Film Festival purple carpet Thursday went viral.

The “Destiny’s Child” alum was photographed walking the Palais des Festivals staircase ahead of the premiere of “Marcello Mio,” a French-Italian comedy created and directed by Christophe Honoré.

She was smiling and waving to fans right before a tense exchange with a security guard was recorded by paparazzi: The gals spoke sternly to each other and Rowland was photographed pointing a finger at the guard. The people accompanying the singer tried to interfere, but the guard ongoing shifting them together the stairs.

“The lady understands what took place. I know what happened,” Rowland, 43, advised the Involved Press. “I have a boundary, and I stand by those boundaries, and that is it.”

Rowland didn’t demonstrate what she intended by “boundaries” but did appear to insinuate that the guard experienced focused her unfairly — probably through racial profiling.

“There have been other females that attended that carpet who did not really glimpse like me, and they did not get scolded or pushed off or explained to to get off,” she claimed.

“I stood my floor, and she felt like she had to stand hers, but I stood my floor.”

Rowland’s visual appeal garnered assist on line regardless of the confrontation.

“And just like that, she @kellyrowland graces a different carpet with her awesome superb natural beauty, course and grace!!!! Sipping Champagne and dwelling her greatest life,” Tina Knowles, mother of Rowland’s Destiny’s Boy or girl bandmate Beyoncé, wrote on Instagram along with a online video of the singer posing with actor Evan Ross and singer Joe Jonas. “This just goes to demonstrate that 1 foolish monkey, really don’t cease no-clearly show!!! on to even bigger and … better matters.”

On the carpet, the “Motivation” singer wore a custom crimson strapless gown by Anamika Khanna and an Egyptian-inspired necklace by Messika. She was attending the competition as a guest of fragrance manufacturer Kilian Paris.