
Remember Alex Welch? She’s the girl that was allegedly socked in the eye by Disney starlet Demi Lovato. She has been quiet about the incident — until now. She is now coming forth to say that she’s still waiting for an apology from Demi, but hasn’t heard a word.
Don’t hold your breath!
In a recent interview, she said, “To this day, I haven’t gotten an apology. I’ve heard nothing. That’s sad if you think that person is your friend.”
A spy close to Demi says that “Demi hasn’t been able to call Alex because she is sequestered in treatment, but multiple efforts have been made to reach out to her.”
People reports:
Hours before the fight, Welch says, Lovato, 18, was upset because “she had gotten in trouble” for her behavior the previous night. Tour managers on the Jonas Brothers world tour had questioned Lovato about her conduct, and Lovato suspected one of the dancers had tattled on her. Not long after, Welch recalls, Lovato “pulled the dancers in a room and threatened: ‘If I find out who told on me …’ ”
Still, Welch says, she wasn’t worried about it, especially since she hadn’t witnessed whatever happened the night before, and wasn’t the one who had told on Lovato. “I felt, honestly, I didn’t say anything and didn’t think twice about it.”
What happened next caught her totally off-guard.
“We were on the plane with the Jonases having this awesome time and I didn’t get a call or text from Demi or a ‘hey, you got a problem with me,’ nothing. And she walks up and punches me and literally walked away and got in her seat.”
“No one should walk up and do that and brush it over, it’s not right,” says Welch, explaining why she is speaking out now.
Lovato meanwhile left the tour immediately after the attack to seek treatment for “emotional and physical issues.”
“Demi feels awful about what happened,” says her spokesperson Jesse Derris. “Right now, she is 100 percent committed to her treatment.”
Welch, who suffered a black eye and bruised left cheek bone, doesn’t have any permanent damage. She has hired Beverly Hills attorney Donald Karpel, who told PEOPLE: “We have contacted the Lovato camp and we are waiting for a response. If we don’t hear back, we will pursue litigation.”
Confirms a spokesperson for Lovato: “We are in the process of engaging with Alex’s lawyer and hope to resolve this as quickly as possible.”
Do you think Alex should wait on an apology? Or should she pursue litigation?
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Posted Monday, December 6th, 2010 at 12:12pm
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