Taylor Momsen Bitten by Bat on Stage While Opening for AC/DC with The Pretty Reckless: 'Rock and Roll Moment'
The star joked that hospital staffers dubbed her "Batgirl" when she went to get rabies shots
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Taylor Momsen performing in Seville, Spain on May 29, 2024Taylor Momsen was bitten by a bat while performing in Spain earlier this week
Her band The Pretty Reckless was opening for AC/DC when the bat took a bite
The singer will need rabies shots for the next two weeks
There are few things more rock and roll than getting bit on stage by a bat and playing on — just ask Taylor Momsen.
The star, 30, was performing with her band The Pretty Reckless in Seville, Spain on Wednesday, May 29 when a bat landed on her leg mid-song, prompting the star to seek a few rounds of rabies shots.
“So… ROCK AND ROLL MOMENT…in Sevilla Wednesday during ‘Witches Burn’ of all songs… a BAT 🦇 🦇 flew onto me and clung to my leg…in the moment I was performing and had no idea until the incredible crowd kept screaming and pointing,” she captioned a post on Instagram on Friday, May 31.
Momsen wrote that while the bat was “cute,” he did indeed bite her, meaning she’ll have to get rabies shots for the next two weeks.
“thanks to all the staff at the hospital who dubbed me #batgirl after seeing it on the local news that morning…more footage to come…that’s one for the books!!!!” she concluded her post.
The Gossip Girl alum also shared video of the moment, as well as zoomed-in photos of the bat on her leg and footage from her trip to the hospital.
“You guys are pointing at something and I don’t know what you're saying,” she says from the stage in the video. “There’s a f---ing flying bat on my leg right now. Can someone help me please? Eeek!! I must really be a witch.”
At that point, several crew members took to the stage to help her, prompting her to tell the crowd, “It’s alright, and the bat’s fine. He’s gonna be my new friend.”
Singer Natasha Bedingfield commented on Momsen’s post, and asked the star if the bite hurt. Momsen responded saying, “the bite? No. The shots? YES 🙏❤️”
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Taylor Momsen's bat on her leg.Hours later she added another video to her page further explaining the situation.
“#BATGIRL Part 2 🦇🦇🦇⚡️⚡️⚡️ #ACDC #PWRUP Tour #WitchesBurn,” she captioned the second clip, which showed her walking around backstage, presumably before seeking medical care.
“I really don’t want a rabies shot, and he scared the s--- outta me, and he wanted to be my friend,” Momson said of the bat in her video. “And all the fans kept trying to tell me, and they were like, pointing and I didn’t know what the f--- they were saying. I thought I’d like, lost, a bracelet… tampon’s out? I don’t know, that’s happened before,” Momson said, trying to guess why everyone in the crowd was pointing.
“Luckiest bat ever! Flew away saying, ‘Thank God that wasn’t Ozzy!’ 😂,” one person wrote in her comment section.
The singer and her band were in Spain opening up for AC/DC on the rockers’ Power Up Tour, where they’ll be through August.
Momsen launched The Pretty Reckless in 2009, and the band released their fourth and most recent album, Death by Rock and Roll, in 2021. They also put out Other Worlds in 2022, an album comprised of acoustic recordings, covers and more.
In May 2023, Momsen said in a radio interview with that she and her bandmates were hard at work on a new album.
“We’ve already kind of started it,” she said. “We’ve gotten into a studio, we’ve stepped foot into a studio. So that’s saying something for us. I don’t know how long it’s gonna take. I have no dates for anyone or any more insight other than that. But we have walked into a studio and we are super, super excited.
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