Man defends himself following run-in with Amy Schumer

Amy Schumer accepts the award for best actress in a comedy for "Trainwreck" at the 21st annual Critics' Choice Awards at the Barker Hangar in this file photo from Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016, in Santa Monica, Calif. Amy Schumer accepts the award for best actress in a comedy for "Trainwreck" at the 21st annual Critics' Choice Awards at the Barker Hangar in this file photo from Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016, in Santa Monica, Calif. Photo: Chris Pizzello Photo: Chris Pizzello Image 1 of / 14 Caption Close Man defends himself following run-in with Amy Schumer 1 / 14 Back to Gallery

Some say the price of being a celebrity is the loss of a private life, and being bombarded by paparazzi and overenthusiastic fans is part of the bargain.

Comedian Amy Schumer and a man have differing accounts of an incident that happened on Saturday, where a fan began recording a video of Schumer in Greenville, S.C.

Schumer posted a photo of a man, later identified as Leslie Brewer, and wrote that Brewer put a camera in her face and when she asked him to stop, the man said, "No, it's America and we paid for you."

A photo posted by @amyschumer on Apr 30, 2016 at 9:23am PDT

Schumer wrote:

"This guy in front of his family just ran up next to me scared the s--t out of me. Put a camera in my face. I asked him to stop and he said ' no it's America and we paid for you' this was in front of his daughter. I was saying stop and no. Great message to your kid. Yes legally you are allowed to take a picture of me. But I was asking you to stop and saying no. I will not take picture with people anymore and it's because of this dude in Greenville."

The actress later went on to clarify via Twitter that she will take photos with "nice people" when she wants to.

Thanks for the kind words and support. I know there are bigger problems in the world. But this was not right pic.twitter.com/8fqoIm7sHC — Amy Schumer (@amyschumer) April 30, 2016

Brewer, however, disagreed with Schumer's account and reached out to Fox Carolina, the local broadcast news station, to tell his side of the story.

Brewer said he found out that Schumer was in the area through other pedestrians. When he saw the comedian, he took out his phone and started recording, but stopped when she asked. He then said the two began to argue about him shooting the video and that Schumer walked away before returning to take his photo.

Brewer posted the clip of the encounter to his Instagram account — which can be seen here — and wrote, "Amy schumer just got mad at me and cussed me out lmao!!! Awesome."

In the video, Schumer asks Brewer to delete the video, before the recording cuts off. Brewer told another news station, WSPA in South Carolina, that Schumer got mad about the recording and called it "disrespectful."

"She turns to my daughter and wife and says 'is this the type of example you want to set for them?" Brewer told the station. "I wish I would have finished recording. I wish I would have never stopped to show people what really happened."

Brewer said that once Schumer mentioned his parenting in their argument, he told her that he wouldn't delete the video after all.

"I think she's tried to paint some kind of picture of me that I am an aggressive guy and that I came up to her," Brewer said. "If you see my video, you can tell that she wasn't scared.

"At the end of the day, I feel as though I did what every other fan would have done if they would have seen one of their celebrities."