A huge Beyonce fan with cerebral palsy was set to see her favorite artist perform live in Seattle — but missed the show after an airline couldn’t fit her wheelchair on their plane.
Jon Hetherington, of Oregon, bought tickets to Beyonce’s sold-out “Renaissance World Tour” show at Lumen Field last weekend but was disappointed when the Eugene airport said his wheelchair was 4 inches too high to fly.
“Went to the airport to pick up my flight and they told me that my seat was apparently four inches too high to fit on the plane,” Hetherington said in a TikTok video he posted Thursday.
“So they checked every possible flight, every airline, and nothing was available. So after 25 years of waiting, I won’t be seeing Beyonce tonight. So the ability to attack again,” he said.
Jon Hetherington said he was told his wheelchair was only 4 inches too tall to fit on the plane.Jon Hetherington
The clip went viral on social media with over 88,000 views and Hetherington’s supporters tagged Beyonce and her team. Some even offered their own tickets in an effort to get him to the show before the “Crazy in Love” singer’s tour ended.
It wasn’t long before Queen Bey’s old publicist followed her back, leaving many to wonder if Beyonce would help.
“I expect maybe a few hundred people will see it. And that was it,” Hetherington told KOMO.
Hetherington, 34, declined to name the airline, saying in a follow-up video that “it’s not just one airline, it’s all airlines.”
Jon Hetherington’s video went viral on TikTok, with fans tagging Beyonce and her team to try and get him on the show.liberatedbygaga/TikTok
“We have built every aspect of our society to exclude the disabled. That is the real problem we have to overcome here,” he said.
Hetherington said this isn’t the first time he’s experienced the ability to attend concerts. Just two weeks earlier, he was stranded in Seattle for hours until 1 a.m. after a Janelle Monáe concert.
“I’ve been waiting for over an hour because there doesn’t seem to be any accessible cabs in all of Seattle,” Hetherington said in another video.
Hetherington bought tickets to see Beyonce’s sold-out show in Seattle last weekend. Brian Prahl / SplashNews.com
He said, he hopes his situation will lead to a change when it comes to treatment for the disabled.
“I always say unless you have a disability yourself or you directly know someone you’re close to, it’s always out of sight, out of mind,” she told Insider.
“We might as well be invisible until society wants us to be an inspiration until there’s like some happy story that able-bodied people can read and make themselves feel better,” Hetherington said.
“We never think about the day-to-day challenges. I can’t have that luxury. I never.”
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