Fans are less than satisfied with Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday 2 World Tour show in Amsterdam.
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Andrea Badgie was 31 when she began experiencing severe pains near her appendix.
Following the death of her mum in 2020, Andrea ignored her pain for months until the pain progressed into stomach pain and bouts of constipation.
Doctors diagnosed her with IBS and sent her home with antibiotics and laxatives. Six months later she was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery and later given a shattering diagnosis of bowel cancer.
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Now 34, Andrea from Manchester is urging those who are unwell to speak up about their symptoms and persist if they feel they are not being heard.
“When all of this began and I started becoming unwell, I had just lost my mum in the September,” Andrea revealed.
“Losing her, the last thing on my mind was worrying about how I was doing. I kept putting off going to the doctors so it was a good couple of months of pain and feeling uncomfortable before I went to see one.”
Andrea visited her GP in December where she was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), however, she claims the medication was not working and was sent for a couple of ultrasound scans - which didn’t show anything was wrong.
Her GP then diagnosed Andrea with a urinary tract infection (UTI) due to the pain she was experiencing. Andrea said: “I went from IBS to having a UTI that travelled back into the liver, and that's what was causing the pain, apparently.
“I was on antibiotics for months which made me feel alright, but as soon as I stopped taking them, it got worse again. I was back and forth to the doctor's, that's when I started losing weight and I had severe constipation.”
In May 2021, Andrea took herself to A&E - what would be the first
Fans are less than satisfied with Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday 2 World Tour show in Amsterdam.
This was the moment Nicki Minaj met hundreds of her most devoted fans in Manchester at the end of a dramatic evening. The US star had been due to perform in front of a sell-out crowd at Co-op Live last night (May 25).
Nicki Minaj has apologised to fans for having to postpone her show in Manchester last night (May 25), saying she spent “5-6 hours” in a Dutch jail cell earlier in the day.The rapper was due to take her ‘Pink Friday 2’ live show to the city’s Co-Op Live venue as part of her ongoing UK and European tour, but she was unable to make it to the gig after the events in the Netherlands.Minaj had livestreamed her own arrest in the afternoon, as she appeared to be detained by Dutch police for allegedly “carrying drugs” while travelling between countries. The Dutch National Police Corps later confirmed she had been arrested.As doors opened at Co-Op Live at 7pm, it was unclear whether Minaj would be able to make it on time, but the announcement finally came at around 9:30pm that she would not be performing.Minaj then posted on social media in the early hours of Sunday morning (May 26) to apologise and update fans on the current situation. “Thank you to everyone who prayed for me today,” she began.
Nicki Minaj livestreamed her own arrest in Amsterdam today (May 25), as she appeared to be detained for “carrying drugs” while travelling for a show in Manchester.The rapper performed in the Dutch city on Thursday night, the opening show of a UK and European tour that is due to take her to Manchester’s Co-Op Live tonight, followed by Birmingham, London and Glasgow, and a run of shows around the continent in early June.But in an Instagram Live post, Minaj filmed what appeared to be a group of Dutch police officers arresting her and asking her to enter a police vehicle so they could take her to the station.Watch the footage below:Nicki Minaj has been arrested in Amsterdam (of all places) for “carrying drugs.”Minaj immediately went on Instagram Live and asked for a lawyer.
Nicki Minaj has been placed under arrest in the Netherlands for suspicion of carrying marijuana in her luggage at the airport as she was exiting the country en route to Manchester for a scheduled performance this evening. Marijuana is legal in the Netherlands.
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