Lil Nas X’s father blames fame for son’s arrest
After Lil Nas X was arrested and hospitalised last month following a suspected overdose, his father, Robert Stafford, has opened up about the recent incident.
The ‘Old Town Road’ rapper was spotted walking around Los Angeles in his underwear, prompting police to be called out. After arriving at the scene, officers accused him of charging at them.
He was then charged with three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one count of resisting an executive officer.
Now, his dad has spoken out about his son’s condition during an interview with The Times. “I understand how the music business is,” he said. “It’s like a high. When you get to that level, you want that drug again, you want to hit that high again.
“For a 26-year-old to have to deal with what he’s dealing with — to be a breadwinner for a lot of people, the inability to change his mother’s situation and the pressure he puts on himself,” Stafford shared.
Stafford also touched on his experience visiting Nas in jail. “To see my baby boy on the other side of that glass. We shed tears with each other for a minute,” he explained. “And I had to tell him that, ‘What you’re going through is normal. We all have breakdowns every now and then, but the difference is, yours get played out in the public eye.’”
Nas also asked his father to share a message with his fans, revealing his disappointment about how he acted in public.
“When I went to visit, he asked me to say, ‘Tell everybody I’m sorry they saw me like that.’ Even in that moment, he was apologising to people for something he was going through,” he said. “Hopefully, this is a turning point in his mental stability. Sometimes God will take you through your worst moment to give you your best moment.”