Crowd Blamed For Galen-Ames ER Visit

-Marina del Rey, CA
-The crowd at a Feast Fest conference Thursday morning is being blamed for the hospitalization of Brianna Galen-Ames after she broke her ankle.

Galen-Ames suffered a broken ankle early Thursday after being booed off the stage at a Feast Fest conference.

On Tuesday, Galen-Ames spoke for about four minutes but had expected remarks of fifteen to twenty minutes. Because the crowd at Tuesday's conference was so harsh, Galen-Ames was ushered off the stage for safety.

She was scheduled to speak again on the matter of her possible return to Feast Fest in 2012 at a Conference on Thursday. However, despite additional security, the crowd was just as raucous and Galen-Ames again had to be removed from the stage. She then broke her ankle after she stormed out of the Conference hall in anger and slipped on a waxed floor. Galen-Ames was taken to Centinela Hospital, where she was X-rayed, given a cast, and sent back to the Beachview Resort. She was planning to leave the L.A. area Friday to return to her rural central Illinois home.

The teenaged culinary maven had no direct comments to reporters when she returned to the Beachview Resort from the hospital, where she had spent about four hours getting X-rays and a cast. She said she would not speak on the matter and that she simply wanted to go up to her hotel room to recuperate and rest for her flight back to Illinois tomorrow.

FF Event Mgr. William Vanderbilt said in a prepared comment, "The Feast Fest Family is deeply regretful to hear of the injury this morning to Brianna Galen-Ames. If the crowd at the Conference had been quieter and polite, she would not have stormed out of the hall and suffered this affliction. We wish Brianna well and hope that this stunning chef will be able to successfully recuperate from her broken bone at her home in Illinois. We also hope that when she is all well again that we at Feast Fest can come to an agreement that satisfies everybody and re-add this culinary prodigy back to our Feast Fest team for 2012."

Vanderbilt had no further comment.