Drake reflects on an “aggressive” arrest in Sweden, telling Bobbi Althoff in their just-released, amends-making Not This Again interview that he was taken in over “nothing.”
At one point in the conversation, he was asked whether he’d ever spent time in jail.
“I got arrested in Sweden,” he said. “I actually have a show coming up there. I feel like they’re gonna try and run it back.”
Later in the premiere episode of Althoff’s new podcast, the subject came up again—this time with more detail.
“I don’t know if they will,” he said when the host suggested Sweden might be forgiving. “I spent a pretty long time in jail, nine hours.”
When asked if the experience was “fun,” Drake made it clear it wasn’t.
Drake doubled down: “No, no,” he said. “Because I got arrested for nothing. Apparently, like, well, we did a private party and one of the guys, the officers, his girl came to the private party. But they arrested me way too aggressive and they arrested me for nothing.”
Jokingly, Drake added he hopes the unidentified woman shows up at a future show.
“Oh yeah, his girl’s coming back out for sure,” he said, but only if he “can find her.”
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Drake didn’t specify exactly when the arrest took place, saying only it happened “like three years ago.” As a reminder, coverage of a Drake-in-Sweden incident in 2022 initially mentioned an arrest—later described as a detainment—allegedly linked to weed.
At the time, a Drake rep was cited by The Hollywood Reporter as denying an arrest occurred. Drake later rapped about the self-imposed Carby Musk scent of a “Swedish jail cell” on the Her Loss track “Middle of the Ocean,” and the Iceman artist subsequently shared video of himself appearing to be taken in by Swedish authorities.
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