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Rapper Nicki Minaj apologized to followers outdoors her resort in Manchester early Sunday morning for suspending a UK present after she was stopped by Dutch authorities on allegations she was carrying medicine.
“I really like you and I’m so sorry this occurred tonight,” Minaj mentioned in a video posted on social media.
Minaj had earlier revealed the title of her Manchester resort in a post on X, and invited followers to see her. “I’m occurring the balcony so in the event you’re outdoors I’ll be capable to see you & I could come downstairs. I’ll be on the market for about an hour. Rlly (actually) needed to a minimum of get to see you,” she mentioned.
Although Minaj was launched from police custody on Saturday night, the live performance, set to be held in Manchester on the identical evening, was unable to go forward.
In a press release revealed by each Stay Nation and the live performance’s venue Co-op Stay, organizers mentioned they have been “deeply dissatisfied” by the inconvenience brought on.
“Regardless of Nicki’s greatest efforts to discover each attainable avenue to make tonight’s present occur, the occasions of right this moment have made it unattainable,” the assertion, revealed on Saturday night, mentioned.
In a video captured on the hip-hop artist’s Instagram Stay – which was later disseminated online by varied social media accounts – Minaj is heard talking with police at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport whereas holding her digital camera cellphone.
Within the clip, Minaj mentions “pre-rolls they discovered,” and is then seen being ushered out of her car and urged to get in a police van. When she asks why she is being informed to board the van, an official informs her she is “below arrest,” later including, for “carrying medicine.” Minaj replies, “I’m not carrying medicine.”
Minaj repeatedly asks for the deal with of the police station and to have a lawyer current all through the clip, whereas the police ask her to cease filming.
When CNN reached out to Amsterdam authorities with Minaj’s given title Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, the Netherlands army police, often known as the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, mentioned they arrested a 41-year-old American girl with “comfortable medicine” at Schiphol Airport.
Afterward Saturday, the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee mentioned the girl detained of their custody “on suspicion of exporting comfortable medicine has been launched.”
“Following session with the Public Prosecutor’s Workplace, the suspect acquired a financial effective and is now permitted to proceed her journey,” the assertion continued.
CNN has reached out to representatives for Minaj for remark.
Minaj is presently on her Pink Friday 2 World Tour in assist of her newest album, launched late final yr. Minaj carried out in Amsterdam on Thursday evening, and is about to carry out in Birmingham, UK, Sunday evening.
One other Nicki Minaj live performance is scheduled on the Co-op Stay, Manchester, for Thursday, Could 30.
CNN’s Caitlin Danaher contributed to this report.