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Sheriff: Tila Tequila says audience threw rocks

Staff Writer
Hendersonville Times-News
FILE - TV Personality Tila Tequila makes an apperance at MTV Studios in Times Square for "MTV's Tila Tequila's New Years Eve Masquerade Party 2008", in this Dec. 31, 2007 file photo taken in New York. Hardin County Sheriff Tom Seiner says reality TV actress Tila Tequila complained that audience members pelted her with stones and feces during an outdoor music festival Saturday Aug. 14, 2010 in southern Illinois.

CARTERVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A sheriff says reality TV actress Tila Tequila complained that audience members pelted her with stones and feces during an outdoor music festival in southern Illinois.

Hardin County Sheriff Tom Seiner told a Carterville TV station it happened early Saturday at the Gathering of the Juggalos. That's a weekend festival based around the band Insane Clown Posse and other groups from Psychopathic Records.

Seiner told WSIL-TV that Tequila, whose real name is Tila Nguyen, complained that she was injured when audience members threw rocks at her. Seiner said Nguyen also complained that feces were thrown.

The sheriff also said one man stabbed another, though not fatally.

Sheriff's Department dispatcher Jimmy Barnard said early Sunday that he had no other details.