Delta Goodrem hits back at US actor who ‘completely humiliated’ her with viral dancing video

Delta Goodrem has opened up about the infamous moment a US actor shamed her in a video that quickly went viral.

Delta Goodrem has opened up about the moment she went viral after a US actor “completely humiliated” her by calling out her “unrhythmic” dancing abilities on social media.

The Aussie singer, who was 30 at the time, was attending Beyoncé and husband Jay Z’s On The Run tour at Pasadena’s Rose Bowl Stadium in LA in August 2014, where she was sat nearby White Chicks star Marlon Wayans.

As she danced away at the gig with close friend and Aussie TV personality Renee Bargh, Goodrem had no clue the actor had been filming her on his phone to later post to his followers on Instagram.

Delta Goodrem has opened up about the moment she went viral after US actor Marlon Wayans shamed her online.

Goodrem was mocked for her dancing abilities in a video filmed and posted by Wayans back in 2014.

“Man I got the most UNRHYTHMIC WHITE WOMAN dancing next to me at the jay and bay concert... This b***h dancing to AC/DC,” he would later caption the video.

Speaking on The Life of Bryony podcast this week, Goodrem said she only found out about the video when she woke up the next day to many alerts on her phone.

“I look at my phone and I just start scrolling and scrolling. I’m like, ‘What the?’” she recalled. “It’s never ending and I’m like, ‘What’s happened?’ and I start getting scared. Something’s happened and I don’t know what's happened.”

The Aussie singer said an email from her mum and a quick Google search clued her in on the video and the “derogatory comments” Wayans had made about her.

Wayans called the singer an “unrhythmic white woman” in his post, which Goodrem said was “derogatory”.

“At this point, my heart was just like... I was just destroyed,” she nervously laughed. “And then I see just all of this vitriol of this moment.”

“I didn’t cope well when I first saw it in the morning. I was pretty upset. I was crying and I was just extremely [clutches chest], just because it had been a pile-on... I was just dancing in my chair!”

After the tears dried, Goodrem said she was done wallowing and began to workshop ways to recover. And because she’s not a “woe is me kind of person”, she decided to find the funny out of the situation.

“I was like, ‘OK, let me take this on.’ And I love Seinfeld so I thought I’m going to [post] the clip of Elaine and put up that I had a blast last night.”

The Aussie singer poked fun of herself online by sharing a clip of Seinfeld character Elaine’s uncoordinated dancing.

The video posted to Twitter was from an iconic scene in the sitcom where Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is told her dancing “stinks” by her quirky mate Kramer (Michael Richards), but she continues to dance anyway.

After posting the clip, Goodrem instantly felt “the air went out straight away and the positivity flipped” online.

Now, 11 years later, she believes the moment actually changed her for the better.

Wayans starred with his brother Shawn Wayans in the 2004 comedy White Chicks.

The actor copped backlash for shaming Goodrem, but he refused to apologise. Picture: Jason Kempin/Getty Images

“There’s always been that little bit in me that was a little bit shy to dance,” she shared. “That freedom that that moment gave me, it’s like if someone keeps pressing on a certain point where they’re like, ‘You can’t dance.’ And you’re like, ‘You know what? Awesome.’”

“Now I could dance in the street, I could dance right here. I could show you all my dance moves. I have no fear when it comes to dancing.

“All because I’d been completely humiliated. Thank you, now I can do an entire dance routine in my shows. I love it. I am ready to go!”

The singer said the video “destroyed” her and left her “completely humiliated”. Picture: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images

For his part, Wayans refused to apologise when fans called him out for shaming Goodrem.

“Ok so let me start by saying suck it long, hard and til y’all mouths hurt to all these sensitive a** people,” he tweeted at the time.

“Secondly, I ain’t apologising for a joke… I love that all these people calling me racist cuz I stated a fact. She can’t dance. Apparently neither can u. Now f**k outta here,” he continued.

“One day people are gonna understand... I simply don’t give f**k. And I refuse to succumb to this new world order if not having an opinion. All comedians, say what u say and let it be said. Never say sorry for a fact, just say f**k off. Be you, be true.”

Originally published as Delta Goodrem hits back at US actor who ‘completely humiliated’ her with viral dancing video