The musician had been portraying Tina Turner in a West End production of Tina but was offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform ‘Gimme Shelter’ with The Rolling Stones.
A mentee of the iconic Quincy Jones, Haynes is best known as one third of the gospel trio Trinitee 5:7. More recently, she played the lead role in the UK’s production of Tina.
“I walked into the room and right there in a pink baseball camp is Mick Jagger and these really cool pants I’d never seen before,” she says. “We only ran it through it one time.”
After the performance, Haynes claims she received an email from Mark Rubinstein, the general manager for Tina, saying she was suspended from the production.
While Haynes declined to get into the details of her suspension with Rolling Stone, she claims it was directly related to her Stones performance on a Tina show night.