Nicki Minaj has been arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on suspicion of possession of soft drugs, RadarOnline.com can report.
The rapper had performed in Amsterdam on Thursday as part of her Pink Friday 2 World Tour and was scheduled to play at the Co-op Live arena in Manchester later tonight.
In Instagram Live footage reshared on X by various fan accounts, Minaj can be seen conversing with a Dutch police officer who said she was being detained "because you're carrying drugs."
"I'm not carrying drugs," Minaj replied. When the officer told her to get into a vehicle, she insisted that "I need a lawyer present now."
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"They’ve been trying everything they possibly can to TRY to stop this tour," Minaj wrote in a series of tweets. "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. I never gave them my bags. They’re refusing to let me see my own bags."
"They're being paid big money to try to sabotage my tour b/c soooooo many ppl 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," she continued. "This is how they plant things in your luggage."
Robert van Kapel, a spokesman for the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, told NBC News, "We can confirm that we have arrested a 41-year-old American woman at Schiphol Airport because of possession of soft drugs."
This is a developing story...