American rapper Nicki Minaj said on social media on Saturday that she was held at Amsterdam Schiphol airport on allegations of possession of soft drugs.
Minaj, 41, was detained hours before she was due to perform a concert in Manchester, England.
Dutch military police confirmed a 41-year-old American woman had been held for possession of soft drugs on Saturday, adding it was prohibited to take such substances out of the Netherlands.
Police did not identify the suspect, but in a later post on social media platform X said the woman had been fined and released around 1945 GMT.
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) May 25, 2024
That was 45 minutes after Minaj had been due to begin performing a concert in Manchester, England, at the Manchester Co-op Live.
The singer had earlier posted a video on X in which a Schiphol employee apparently told her that police wanted to “search all her luggage”.
Another video on her social media showed a police officer telling her she was “carrying drugs”. In the video Minaj denies that.
“Now they said they found weed & that another group of ppl have to come here to weigh the pre-rolls,” she said in a following post.
The former “American Idol” judge played a show in Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome on Thursday and is due to return there for another show on June 2.
Minaj is known to start shows late. On Thursday she arrived on stage almost three hours after the advertised starting time.
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