He said anyone who bought a ticket would have his or her money refunded.

The governor called Springsteen out on “The Big Show with John Boy and Billy,” a radio program based in North Carolina. The governor took his 15 minutes Tuesday to take shots at a variety of entities which have been involved with the bill, from the city of Charlotte — “Charlotte wanted to be the bathroom police” — to Megyn Kelly to the state’s Human Rights Commission — “they’re Machiavellian” — to the basic idea of “gender expression.”

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Listen below (it’s worth it).

At one point the interview, he suggested Springsteen may have ulterior motives for canceling the show, that the Boss canceled the show over ticket sales, not LGBT rights.

“I love Bruce Springsteen. I love his music,” McCrory said, before diving in. “But he canceled a concert in Greensboro.”

Then, he continued, “By the way, they only had 8,000 tickets sold, with all respect. Bruce doesn’t mention that. They didn’t quite get the tickets sales they wanted, might have had something to do with it.”

“For him to cancel the concert, two days before the concert, over a bathroom policy — I doubt he read it. I doubt he understands it,” McCrory trailed off.

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The thing is, no one knows where the governor got such a number, and McCrory hasn’t said. But Andrew Brown, a spokesperson from the Coliseum, told the News & Record it sold more than 15,000 tickets for the show and only had 100 remaining.

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According to PolitiFact, the Coliseum can generally seat 20,000 but had planned for 16,000 for this show, given Springsteen’s stage setup. Thus the show was nearly sold out.

“No idea where 8,000 may have come from,” Brown told PolitiFact.

Previously, officials had told local media outlets that the cancellation would cost the Greensboro Coliseum as much as $100,000.

Yesterday evening, the governor issued an apology through PolitiFact, saying he had the sales number wrong when he announced it on a radio show.

Here’s the full statement from Josh Ellis, a spokesman for the governor:

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“The governor apologizes for using the wrong number. It’s too bad Bruce Springsteen actually canceled on nearly 15,000 people at the last minute. Regardless, the governor is still keeping his Springsteen albums despite their political disagreements.”

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Springsteen is among many artists who have canceled shows in North Carolina, including Ringo Starr and Pearl Jam. Some, such as Mumford and Sons and Cyndi Lauper, have played shows there and then donated the proceeds to LGBT rights groups. One group, Against Me!, had a personal stake in the law. Its lead singer Laura Jane Grace has come out as transgender. Grace chose to play the show in protest.