Nicki Minaj was travelling from Amsterdam to Manchester, England, for a concert on her “Pink Friday 2 World Tour” when she was detained.
Nicki Minaj was released from custody on Saturday after being detained by police in the Netherlands on suspicion of exporting soft drugs, authorities reported.
The rapper was fined and allowed to continue her journey, according to a translated police post on X, made just before 4 p.m. ET.
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Minaj, 41, was traveling from Amsterdam to Manchester, England, for a concert on her “Pink Friday 2 World Tour” when she was detained. Minaj, whose real name is Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, was scheduled to perform at the Co-op Live arena in Manchester on Saturday night, but the show was postponed, Live Nation UK announced.
“Despite Nicki’s best efforts to explore every possible avenue to make tonight’s show happen, the events of today have made it impossible,” the company stated. “We are deeply disappointed by the inconvenience this has caused.”
Tickets will remain valid for the rescheduled concert, the company assured.
While police did not name the person arrested, a spokesperson confirmed that a 41-year-old American woman was detained at Schiphol Airport for possession of soft drugs.
In a social media post early Sunday local time, Minaj shared that she arrived at her Manchester hotel just over an hour ago. “After sitting in a jail cell for 5-6 hours, my plane still didn’t take off for another 20 minutes once I boarded the 50-minute flight from Amsterdam,” she wrote.
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“Please, please, please accept my deepest & most sincere apologies,” Minaj wrote. “They sure did know exactly how to hurt me today but this too, shall pass.”
The rapper said she hopes to announce the rescheduled date for Saturday’s show on Sunday, noting that she and her team are considering options in June and July.
She confirmed that she will still perform the second show in Manchester on Thursday and the Birmingham show on Sunday.
“I’ll find a way to not only make up the date with the performance but I’m going to create an added bonus for everyone that had a ticket for this show. Promise,” Minaj said.
Earlier on Saturday, Minaj posted several updates on social media detailing the incident.
In one video on X, she is seen being informed that her luggage needs to be searched.
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“I’m so sorry to say that,” a man at the airport tells her.
“But isn’t that what you planned on doing from the get-go? Why didn’t you guys search it before it went on the plane?” she responds.
The man explains that they conducted a “random quick check” but now need to open the luggage.
In subsequent posts, Minaj suggested that people were trying to “stop this tour” and were lying to her.
“They took my luggage & when I asked where it is they said it’s on the plane. It couldn’t have been, I just pulled up,” she said. “I never gave them my bags. They’re refusing to let me see my own bags.”
In another post, she wrote: “They’re being paid big money to try to sabotage my tour because so many people are mad that it’s this successful & they can’t eat off me. They got caught stealing money from my travel/jets. Got fired. Got mad. Etc.”
“This is how they plant things in your luggage,” another post read.
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In her Sunday social media post, Nicki Minaj mentioned she has video evidence of the encounter and will let her “lawyers & GOD take it from here.”
During an Instagram Live, Minaj filmed police as they instructed her to get inside a van to be taken to the police station. In a post on X, she said she was being taken “5 mins away to make a statement about my security to the police precinct.”