Sounds bloody awkward.
Joanne McNally has said one of her gigs ended up with a "weird" energy after an audience member interrupted her to talk about her period.
Joanne's in the middle of touring Ireland the UK, which includes spending sixty nights at Vicar Street.
But Joanne explained on her podcast, My Therapist Ghosted Me, that a woman interrupted her gig at Belfast's SSE Arena last week to let her know she'd started her period on-stage.
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Joanne was already an hour into the show with roughly 3,000 people watching when the woman ran up the middle aisle to the stage and called her.
"She’s obviously taken a drink, the eyes are quite glazed, and she’s like, ‘Joanne, you’ve got your period.’ And she points to my crotch," Joanne said.
“I looked down and obviously you have to make really quick decisions up there. You don’t have time to mull things over; you don’t have time to lie on your back and have a good look at your crotch."
“So, I just scanned down really quickly. I couldn’t see anything. I couldn’t process what was happening, but I thought she was heckling me, trying to psych me out."
“I dismissed her. I sent her away and I said to her, ‘I won’t embarrass you by saying what you just said to me.’ I thought it was a really bizarre heckle, because I couldn’t see anything myself.”
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Once her set was over, Joanne realised the woman was right — she had started her period during the show. Despite the audience member trying to help, Joanne admitted it had ruined the gig.
"My head was completely out of the game. The room got really weird and there was a weird tension."
Joanne went on to say that while she understands the woman was "trying to be sound," she felt it was unnecessary.
“There was no need to do it. Girls, in future, just let me bleed out up there — I don’t need to know,” she said.
“Then I was thinking: ‘The room is so big nobody would have seen it.’ But then I remembered there are screens on either side of the stage. So I don’t know if anyone else saw it, but what could I do? What could I do with that information? There’s nothing I could do. It was just a real downer."
“It was embarrassing. Not in a menstruation way — it just took the shine off what I wanted to be a good show.”
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Hopefully that's the last time it happens to Joanne!
