Rapper Nicki Minaj has found herself trending on Twitter – and it’s all for the wrong reasons. It all started when the Anaconda hitmaker tweeted about being asked to vaccinate in order to attend the Met Gala in New York.
Well, Minaj didn’t attend the plush event, leading many to assume it was because she refused to receive her jab.
“They want you to get vaccinated for the Met. if I get vaccinated it won’t for the Met. It’ll be once I feel I’ve done enough research. I’m working on that now. In the meantime my loves, be safe. Wear the mask with 2 strings that grips your head & face. Not that loose one,” she wrote on Twitter.
There was a flood of reaction, with some accusing the 38-year-old of promoting anti-vaxxer sentiment, which has been on the rise recently. Just when you think that was it – Nicki Minaj was not done with expressing her sentiments about the vaccine.
Minaj then tweeted a bizzare claim about the COVID-19 jab: She said a cousin from her native Trinidad refused to get the vaccine because a friend got it and became impotent.
“His testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding. So just pray on it & make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied,” she tweeted in part.
Awkwardly for Minaj, that claim was recently debunked by the CDC. It said there is currently no evidence of any vaccines causing infertility problems in women or children.
Nicki Minaj catches heat on Twitter
Unfortunately for Nicki Minaj, many people were not going to let her tweets on the vaccine slide and were quick to call the star out, including MSNBC news anchor Joy Reid.
“For you to use your platform to encourage our community to not protect themselves and save their lives. My God sister, you can do better than that,.. As a fan, I am so sad that you did that,” Reid said on her show.
Minaj is on the defensive and claims her words were taken out of context.
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