Ariana Grande fans fuming after she is pelted by lemon at Coachella

Ariana Grande was hit by a lemon as she performed her second headline slot at Coachella.

The US pop superstar, 25, was pelted with the citrus fruit as she performed a mashup of Right There and Break Your Heart Right Back on Sunday night.

Grande was pelted in the chest as she strutted across the stage with her backing dancers.

She brushed off the incident, telling fans: “That’s ’cause one of ya’ll threw a lemon at me, s***.”

Grande’s fans were left fuming, with one tweeting: “If you throw a lemon at Ariana Grande, you’re a piece of s***.”

Another wrote: “Ariana deserves nothing but love thrown at her not a lemon.”

A third tweeted: “Who pays to go to Coachella and then throws a LEMON at Ariana, like seriously. I’m so mad rn.”

It is believed she was targeted by a Beyonce fan over an alleged pay disparity between Grande’s set and Beyonce’s 2018 performance after it was reported Grande was paid more.

But The Blast later reported both singers received $8 million (£6.1 million) for their sets. The lemon was an apparent reference to Beyonce’s album, Lemonade.

Grande was joined by Justin Bieber on stage as she closed out the 20th annual music event. The singer broke his hiatus from music to duet his 2015 hit Sorry.

He appeared to confirm his appearance was completely unplanned, telling festival-goers: “I haven’t been on stage in like two years. I came out here, no idea I was gonna be on stage tonight.”

Grande was joined by NSYNC during the first weekend, as well as Nicki Minaj, P Diddy and Ma$e, with fans left fuming over sound issues affecting the artists.