Harry Styles' terrifying encounter with London thieves
Harry Styles opens up to Howard Stern this week about his terrifying encounter with some London thieves.
The singer was held at knifepoint and robbed while on his way home from a friends house last month.
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Making light of the situation, Harry jokes, "Yes, I was robbed on Valentine's Day."
"That's what you get for being single these days! I should have had other plans."
Harry reveals it happened while he was walking home from his friend's house.
He shares, "I'm five minutes from home, and I kind of see this group of guys who all got their hoods up and their faces covered and stuff and I was like, that's a bit weird."
"I turn my music off and I'm walking up the street and I keep turning around, and the guys cross the road and I'm like, that's weird..."
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Harry explains further, "Then I hear shuffling of feet, trying to catch up to me, so I cross the street, and they cross the street."
"I'm like for f**k sake I think I'm about to get robbed."
The men stop him
Harry says the men stopped him and asked him if they could, "Talk for a minute."
The singer goes on, "There's nobody around, my heart's pounding so I'm like, "Sure.""
"He's like, "Do you smoke weed?" And I say, "no." And he's like, "Do you want some weed?" I said, "no."
Harry explains at this point the men began to gather around him.
One of them asked him what he had on him and Harry replied, "I haven't got anything."
The singer continues, "And he's like, "Stop f***ing around.""
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"I had some cash in my pocket, so I said have some cash and I pull out some cash and he takes it from me."
"And I had my headphone jack sticking out of my pocket and he's like, "What's that plugged into?""
Harry admits, "I was like, god's sake, it's my phone."
"So I pull out my phone and I'm thinking, OK this is really annoying but I'll wipe it and get a new phone and kind of, whatever... and then the guy's like, "Unlock your phone.""
"The other one pulls his shirt up and he's got a knife sticking in his pants and I was like s**t."
Harry fights back
The former One Direction star refused to unlock his phone - this didn't sit well with the thieves.
"The guy's like, "You got 10 seconds," and he starts counting them down and I'm like, "F**k, am I going to unlock my phone? Am I going to give him my phone?""
"So I try to give him my phone and he's like, "No you need to unlock it.""
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"I was like, "I can’t," and there's like a little pond behind them and I thought I'd throw it in the pond and be like, neither of us can have it."
Harry adds, "Then I thought I don't want to p**s them off."
"Then two cars were coming and I felt an opportunity to sprint and run…"
"I just run into the road and try to stop a car and obviously a mad man runs into the road, you won't let them into your car so they don't let me in, and I try to get another car, they don't let me in."
"Then I just turned and ran back towards the little village area where I live."
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"So I just sprinted but usually when I'm out walking I'm wearing running stuff and this was the one time I was wearing like corduroy flairs and shoes I was like, "I'm going to have to f***ing sprint all the way up this hill.""
"I just sprinted and I guess because they had cash they ended up turning around."
Meanwhile, Harry's set to play the 3Arena this April.
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