Kim Kardashian defends Kanye West over wheelchair incident

BRISBANE, Australia, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Kim Kardashian says Kanye West never told a wheelchair-bound fan to stand up.

The 33-year-old reality star took to Instagram on Monday to defend her husband from recent reports.

West had ordered his audience to stand while he performed "The Good Life" in Sydney on Friday, and singled out two fans who remained seated. One held up a prosthetic leg, which the rapper deemed acceptable, but he sent his bodyguard to confirm the other fan, who was in a wheelchair, was disabled.

"What an amazing Australian tour!" Kardashian captioned a short video of her husband's concert in Brisbane. "Its frustrating that something so awesome could be clouded by lies in the media."

"Kanye never asked anyone in a wheel chair to stand up & the audience videos show that," she asserted. "He asked for everyone to stand up & dance UNLESS they were in a wheel chair. #JustWantedEveryoneToHaveAFunNight #TheMediaTwistsThings."

West had prefaced his demand by saying, "Unless you got a handicap pass and you get special parking and shit," but still chose to single out the two fans. The rapper himself addressed the incident during his performance Monday in Brisbane.

"[The media] have got this thing where they want the masses -- people who've never heard my albums -- to somehow read a headline that reads negative, and think that I'm a bad person or something," he said on stage. "I'm not judging, I'm just going to tell you who I am. I'm a married, Christian man."

"At my concerts, I make sure everybody has as good a time as possible," he continued. "So all this demonizing me, it ain't going to work after a while. Pick a new target. Pick a new target. Because I'm not one of these dumbass artists that you're used to."

The Brisbane concert brought the second leg of West's worldwide Yeezus tour to a close.