BOSTON (AP) – Danica Patrick emerged from some recent fan encounters with a couple of bruises: One resulted in a swollen ring finger after a girl shook her hand too enthusiastically, and another left its mark on her image.
The 35-year-old NASCAR star said Wednesday that she “had a moment” when she cursed out a booing fan after qualifying for last week’s race.
“In a perfect world, I would have never walked over there and I’d have just kept going,” she said during a previously scheduled promotional tour in Boston. “That’s mostly what I do, every single day, if someone boos me, is you just keep walking.
“But every now and again they just catch you in a moment. And I had a moment.”
In a video that went viral after the race in Pocono, Pennsylvania, Patrick stormed over to the fan and said: “I’m a person, too. I have feelings. When you boo me, it hurts my feelings.”