Nicki Minaj Says She Didn’t Attend This Year’s Met Gala Because of Vaccine Requirement

Rapper Nicki Minaj connected Sept. 13 revealed that she would not beryllium attending this year’s Met Gala owed to the COVID-19 vaccine requirement.

The yearly event, which was cancelled past twelvemonth owed to the pandemic, went up this twelvemonth successful compliance with New York’s “Key To NYC” plan that requires COVID-19 vaccination for indoor entertainment, recreation, dining, and fittingness settings.

Minaj, whose existent sanction is Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, took to Twitter to pass her 22.6 cardinal followers that she would not beryllium attending the event, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, until she had done “enough research” into vaccinations, but encouraged radical to proceed wearing masks.

“They privation you to get vaccinated for the Met. If I get vaccinated it won’t for the Met,” Minaj wrote connected Monday.

“It’ll beryllium erstwhile I consciousness I’ve done capable research. I’m moving connected that now. In the meantime my loves, beryllium safe. Wear the disguise with 2 strings that grips your caput & face. Not that escaped one,” she continued.

The rapper, 38, past went connected to stock another post stating, “My relative successful Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his person got it & became impotent. His testicles became swollen. His person was weeks distant from getting married, present the miss called disconnected the wedding. So conscionable commune connected it & marque definite you’re comfy with ur decision, not bullied.”

According to the FDA information sheets for the Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, determination has not yet been immoderate probe that indicates that COVID-19 vaccines and erectile dysfunction are linked.

When 1 follower told Minaj that they had to get vaccinated successful bid to enactment but that they were unsure astir having a 2nd shot, the rapper encouraged those successful a akin concern to get vaccinated, noting that she whitethorn besides bash truthful successful the future.

“I cognize babe. A batch of countries won’t fto ppl enactment w/o the vaccine,” Minaj replied. “I’d def urge they get the vaccine. They person to provender their families. I’m definite I’ll b vaccinated arsenic good cuz I person to spell connected tour, etc.”

Another of Minaj’s followers besides informed her that they person received the vaccine and “haven’t got the microorganism oregon thing truthful that’s a bully thing,” to which the rapper replied: “That’s astonishing babe. This is the norm.”

In a separate Twitter post, Minaj asked her followers which vaccines they would recommend.

Minaj’s Twitter posts astir the vaccine initially began aft a instrumentality pointed retired that she had not made a nationalist quality successful implicit a year, to which Minaj, who gave commencement to her archetypal kid successful September 2020, explained: “I person an babe with nary nannies during COVID. Who mad? Not risking his wellness to beryllium seen.”

She aboriginal questioned a instrumentality who noted that “the vaccine doesn’t forestall getting covid, it prevents you getting superior symptoms” and that “non-vaccinated radical are 11x much apt to walk distant from covid than vaccinated.”

Minaj responded: “Babe. That’s not true. I had the nonstop aforesaid symptoms arsenic ppl with the [expletive] vaccine.”

Elsewhere successful her bid of posts, Minaj responded to 1 instrumentality who said they had noticed that she “seemed to beryllium frightened of Covid,” and the vocalist implied that she had tested affirmative for COVID-19 portion preparing for the MTV Video Music Awards.

“Love u babe. I was prepping for vmas past one changeable a video & conjecture who got COVID?” the rapper replied. “Do u cognize what it is not to beryllium capable to buss oregon clasp your tiny babe for implicit a week? A babe who is lone utilized to his mama? ‘get vaccinated’ Drake had conscionable told maine helium got covid w|THE VACCINE tho truthful chile.”

Efforts to interaction representatives for Minaj’s statement and absorption for remark were unsuccessful arsenic of aboriginal Tuesday.