The father of premature twins born at the same hospital as Beyoncé and Jay-Z's baby girl says her security kept him from seeing the newborns.The 30-year-old singer's daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, arrived at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City on Saturday night.
But Neil Coulon, 39, of Brooklyn said the stress of his wife Rosalyn delivering two premature girls was tripled when Beyoncé's towering bodyguards allegedly barred him from the sixth-floor neonatal intensive care unit.
Coulon told the New York Daily News that security also cleared a waiting room of his relatives - some who drove four and a half hours to the Manhattan hospital to see his newborn twin girls - and described the star as treating the hospital like 'an exclusive nightclub'.
'Three times they stopped me from entering or exiting the NICU and it happened once on Friday - just because they wanted to use the hallway,' he said.'They should have been more strategic about it, These are children with problems in intensive care and you're just going to take over the hospital like you own it? All I want is an apology.
It has been reported that the couple spent $1.3 million (£842,000) to seal off and redecorate a wing, complete with bulletproof glass and ultra-tight security measures.
Mr Coulson, from the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn (where Jay-Z hails from) said he was appalled at the double standard.
'I know they spent $1.3million and I'm just a contractor from Bed-Stuy but the treatment we received was not okay.
'My wife is just terribly upset. She had a C-section. She gave birth to twins. She is sore. Nobody needs this.
'This is the NICU. Nobody cares if you’re a celebrity. Nobody is star-gazing. They just want to see their children. To have that circus roll into town and ruin our parade was unpleasant.'
A source at the hospital told the paper: 'Some people were upset. I heard a gentleman say he couldn’t go upstairs to see his baby'.
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