Sia She recently appeared on Zach Sang’s show, taking the time to explain a few details about her relationship with star actress Maddie Ziegler. In particular, the open singer revealed a particularly crazy story about the time he stopped Ziegler from going to Harvey WeinsteinThe plane with him.

“You know I kept her out of a plane that Harvey Weinstein tried to board her on. Yes, that was really disgusting … “, he stated.” When he invited her, then I called and said [Ziegler’s mother] Melissa, I had to. I just said, ‘Please don’t do that, don’t do that, don’t do that.’ ”

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Ziegler, now 17, first rose to fame as a star in the popular reality series Lifetime Dancing moms. Sia says she “has always felt this extreme compulsion to protect Maddie” ever since she met her while working on her music video “Chandelier” when Ziegler was 11 years old. “As soon as I met Maddie I felt this extreme desire to protect her, and I think it was part of my own healing, and I felt this extreme compulsion to protect her,” he added.

Weinstein, once a famous and respected producer of Miramax, is currently serving a 23-year prison sentenced for numerous sexual assaults he committed in the course of his career. It is unclear exactly how old Ziegler was when Weinstein invited her to fly with him.

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