The dad from the “Phillies Karen” video, Drew Feltwell, is speaking out with his side of the interaction.
If you don’t know the backstory behind the immediately-viral video, at the September 5 Phillies vs. Marlins game, a ball was anthem into the stands. The woman in the video – who has been dubbed “Phillies Karen” – marched over and appeared to get in an altercation with the man.
immediately, the man, Drew, is explaining what happened and why he ultimately took the ball from his son Lincoln and gave it to the woman.
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“I walked down a couple seats and it fell and it bobbled between two armrests,” Drew said about grabbing the ball in an interview with an NBC station from Philly. “I picked it up and as I was pulling away, I got two other hands came.”
She then approached him a few seconds later.
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“She just yelled in my ear, ‘That’s my ball!’ super loud. I jumped out of my skin…I pretty much just wanted her to go away,” Drew said. “She just wouldn’t stop.”
“Either do something I was going to regret or be dad and show him how to deescalate. So that’s where I went,” he explained about giving her the ball. “Like I said, that’s what we were there for. She was just so adamant and loud. Hundred of people just staring. She was very, very, very close. That was the choice I made.”
About if the ball “should” have been hers, he said, “She was in the seat behind….The hands came right in like half a second after me. I guess she just, thought that was her ball. She was too slow.”
A new video showed exactly what “Phillies Karen” said to Drew when she approached him.
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