AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – American rapper Nicki Minaj on Saturday canceled a concert in Manchester, England, after she said police detained her at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport over allegations of possession of soft drugs.
“Despite Nicki's best efforts to explore every possible avenue to make tonight's show happen, today's events have made it impossible,” Manchester's Co-op Live said in a post on X.
Minaj, 41, was arrested hours before the show was scheduled to start.
Dutch military police confirmed on Saturday the arrest of a 41-year-old American woman for possession of soft drugs, adding that it is prohibited to take such substances out of the Netherlands.
Police did not identify the suspect, but in a later post on the social media platform X said the woman was fined and released at around 1945 GMT.
It was 45 minutes after Minaj was scheduled to perform at the Manchester Co-op Live concert.
The singer had previously posted a video on X in which a Schiphol employee appeared to tell her that the police wanted to “search all her luggage.”
Another video on social media showed a police officer telling her she was “carrying drugs.” In the video, Minaj denies this.
“Now they said they found weed and another group of people should come here to weigh the advance rolls,” she said in the next post.
The former “American Idol” judge performed at Amsterdam's Ziggo Dome on Thursday, and is scheduled to return there for another show on June 2.
