Beyonce’s former drummer has claimed the singer practiced witchcraft in order to ruin her love life and control her cat.
Kimberly Thompson, 37, last week filed for a temporary restraining order against the pop star, who she claims is trying to destroy her life out of jealousy.
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Meanwhile, Thompson, who was in Beyonce’s all-girl backing band for seven years, has given an interview on DailyMailTV.
“Thompson claims Beyonce used witchcraft that allowed her to be ‘manipulated sexually’, saying the singer did this by ‘jumping into other bodies’ to watch her be intimate with partners,” reports the newspaper.
The star is also accused of messing with a kitten belong to Thompson, who sought the advice of psychics last year after her new pet began attacking her and “doing weird magical stuff”.
“I was getting abused,” Thompson to DailyMailTV. “Every time I came home from work to rest, I was just being abused to the point where I’m still healing from a scratch on my rib cage.
“It drew blood, it was awful. It was so manic and gnarly that I ended up calling two psychics.”
She claims they told her that Beyonce had put a spell on the cat. The singer later had the animal killed, she adds.
“For a very long time, I put this person [Beyonce] on a pedestal, I loved them, and the entire time, this person was casting spells, and manipulating and controlling my job situation, my relationships, just all kind of things,” said Thompson.
Beyonce has not commented on the allegations.
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