‘Celeste Is a Liar’ Message at Coachella Has Everyone Talking
In April 2025, just days before Celeste Rivas Hernandez was murdered, D4vd took the stage at Coachella. This year, instead of a music festival, the musician sat in a jail cell awaiting formal charges to be filed. At 21, D4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, is facing the possibility of the death penalty for the slaying of Rivas Hernandez. Miles away from the 77th Street jail where he sat, a message flew across the sky in Indio, California. The message, delivered via skywriting, read “Celeste is a Liar.” Conspiracy theorists questioned whether it was about the murdered teenager or if a marketing campaign for a completely unrelated Netflix project simply didn’t get pulled in time. Here is everything we know.
A message reading “Celeste is a Liar” appeared at Coachella just one day after D4vd’s arrest
On Friday, April 17, skywriters flew above the Coachella festival grounds and wrote: “Celeste is a Liar.” According to KTLA, the skywritten message, scrawled across the sky around 4 p.m., took festivalgoers by surprise, with dozens recording the odd event. While skywriting isn’t particularly uncommon, this particular message was eerily timed.
The message appeared in the sky almost exactly 24 hours after David Anthony Burke, who played Coachella a year earlier, was arrested for the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. D4vd’s arrest reignited interest in Celeste’s case and led festivalgoers to question if the music artist or one of his supporters hired a skywriter to discredit a murder victim and shed doubt on what happened to her.
While pure malice is one explanation for the message, there is a much more mundane, though unfortunate, one. According to Complex, the message could be connected to Roommates, a Netflix movie with a nepotism-fueled cast. One of the major characters in the film is named Celeste. Netflix has not commented.
So who really ordered the skywriting?
It has been nearly a week since the message was seen, multiple times, in the sky above Indio, California, but absolutely no one has stepped forward to take credit for the stunt or explain what it is really all about. If D4vd or someone from his team is behind the message, more legal trouble could be brewing. Still, we find it hard to believe the musician would attempt such a stunt from a jail cell, though we can’t completely discount the possibility.
If Netflix or someone associated with Roommates is behind the skywriting, they’re keeping their mouths shut, too. We suspect, however, that if the streaming service or someone associated with the movie’s production was behind the skywriting, we’d probably know about it by now. A heartfelt apology likely would have been enough for most people.
For now, it looks like whoever was behind the skywritten message, and what it could all mean, will remain a mystery. This is a developing story.
