NEW YORK – Despite spending most evenings in the same vicinity as Beyoncé at the moment, DJ Khaled has admitted he’s too nervous to speak to her so “kind of runs” away instead.

Khaled, a Palestinian-American, has joined Beyoncé on her Formation tour in north America in recent weeks, getting the crowd hyped up before she arrives and performs her most recent work from Lemonade.

While it might be assumed this means the two spend a lot of time together, that’s not the case – at least according to Khaled, who says he is too scared of talking to her and runs away when she’s in sight.

“I’m very quiet. Every time I’ve ever seen her is when I’m with my brother Jay Z, and I just say, ‘Hi,’ and I look the other way so fast and I kind of run,” Khaled told the New York Times. “I just don’t want to say nothing too much. I’m not messing that up.”

Khaled shot to superstardom in the late 2000s when he was signed to E1 records as a producer. He has since collaborated with major hip hop acts like Lil Wayne, Drake, Snoop Dogg, Chris Brown and Kanye West.

Khaled became an internet phenomenon for his snapchat account, where he displays his larger than life persona to millions of followers on a daily basis.