Pharrell Williams Heckled by Animal-Rights Protesters, Offers Them a Hug

Pharrell Williams had a novel strategy to a swarm of animal-rights protesters — he went full hug mode to maintain the peace … and spoiler: it didn’t precisely work.

The singer and Louis Vuitton males’s inventive director was heatedly heckled exterior GQ’s Males of the Yr Get together on the Chateau Marmont Thursday night time, with one protester yelling, “What type of person still uses fur?” Pharrell, ever cool, shot back with, “I don’t. God bless you.”

The drama unfolds within the video — the identical protester held up an indication to point out Pharrell the impression of his obvious fur use on animals, however the singer tried to go in for a hug — solely to have his efforts completely rejected.

Whereas most would’ve bolted on the sight of a protest group, Pharrell stayed calm … persevering with to recite “God bless you,” earlier than laughing it off as his safety whisked him away to his ready trip.

Seems to be like he wasn’t letting the activists rain on his parade — as Pharrell was being honored on the occasion as GQ’s ‘Designer of the Yr’ for his work at Louis Vuitton, which he kicked off final 12 months after Virgil Abloh’s tragic dying in 2021.