“Please look me directly in the eyes”

The Nobel laureate responded after a woman who apparently danced for him at a Grammy performance claimed she was told not to look at him

Look at Bob Dylan.

In a post shared on don’t look at him.

“My joy was taken away from me after rehearsing as one of the backup dancers for your set at the 1991 Grammys in NYC,” Cheryl Henry wrote on the social media platform, referring to Dylan’s performance of “Masters of War “.

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“We all had to walk through the backstage area in a row, past the dressing rooms where you stood in a black hooded robe, a bit like what the boxers used to wear,” she said, adding that he apparently told her “(and) You said to me as I walked past you: ‘Now don’t go and cut your long red hair until tomorrow evening.'”

Henry continued, “When I reached the exit of Radio City, I was told not to return.”

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She recalled a woman “directing the proceedings” telling dancers to “NOT make eye contact with you,” adding, “I guess I sneaked a look as I passed you!”

Dylan, who has been on look me straight in the eyes lately.

Seemingly relieved by his explanation, Henry then replied, “I knew it didn’t come from you! I look forward to it!”

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The “Blowin’ in the Wind” singer’s life and career will be the subject of the upcoming biopic A complete unknownand he is played by Timothée Chalamet. However, the actor recently told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe that he has not met the musician.

“I never met him,” said Chalamet, 28. “He kind of withdrew from the public eye. I’ve never met him. I would love to do it!” However, that is the case dune Star added with a laugh, “I saw him live.”