Keke Palmer has called out a fan who filmed her without her consent after the actor declined to take a photo with her.
On Saturday day morning, Keke Palmer, 28, took to Twitter to share her recent experience and discuss the unpleasant encounter.
Per Complex, Palmer says she was at a bar when a woman approached her and asked for a picture several times. The Akeelah and the Bee star claimed she "nicely" told her that she didn’t want to take a photo, but the fan "still [proceeded] to film me against my will."
"No means no, even when it doesn’t pertain to sex," she tweeted. "I was at the bar the other day and this girl asked me three times for a picture and I told her three times nicely that I did not want take one with her
"She still preceded to film me against my will."
Palmer added in a follow-up tweet that if she "went off on her" she would've been painted in a bad light so she "nervously laughed" while her privacy was invaded.
Palmer - real name Lauren Keyana Palmer - elaborated further on the situation on Instagram. She shared a screenshot of her tweets and added in the caption of that post that she was "still upset" about the moment.
She explained that laughing in uncomfortable situations is her coping mechanism. Despite that, it wasn't indicative of how she felt in the situation.
"Clearly I’m still upset about it," Palmer captioned a screenshot of her tweet. "I hated that I smiled, but that is my defense mechanism to laugh or joke in an uncomfortable situation and it misleads people every time."
"Literally I could be wanting to scream, and on the outside I’m still [performing]. The fact that I tell people no at all is therapeutic progress for me,” The Scream Queens star said.
"Creating boundaries can sometimes be so difficult but when you people please or always try to avoid conflict, you let yourself down every time."
Palmer then concluded her Instagram post with a plea for fans: "If you ever want a picture with me and I say no, let’s just let that rock."
Try to remember that celebrities are people too and you never know what's going on in their personal lives. So if they say no, you need to respect their wishes.