Lil Nas X in Treatment Following Police Attack Charges: ‘A Bump That He’s Gonna Get Over’

Lil Nas X has entered an inpatient attraction programme aft being arrested and deed with felony charges for allegedly attacking constabulary officers and resisting apprehension portion wandering bare successful Los Angeles.

Lawyers for Lil Nas (Montero Hill) appeared successful Los Angeles tribunal connected Monday (Sept. 15), but the 26-year-old instrumentalist was notably absent. Judge Shellie Samuels stated that Lil Nas is “in treatment” extracurricular of California.

“We’re not going to get circumstantial astir wherever helium is,” said the judge. “It’s private, cipher needs to cognize wherever helium is, but helium is successful treatment.”

Judge Samuels near Lil Nas’ bail astatine $75,000 and modified the conditions of his merchandise truthful helium tin stay retired of state. The rapper’s adjacent tribunal day is acceptable for Nov. 18.

After the hearing, defence lawyer Drew Findling spoke to property extracurricular the courthouse and said they bash not yet cognize erstwhile Lil Nas volition beryllium released from treatment. Findling did not specify the quality of his attraction program

“We’re doing what is champion for Montero from a idiosyncratic standpoint, and a nonrecreational standpoint, but astir importantly for his well-being,” said Findling. “He is surrounded by an astonishing family, an astonishing squad of radical that attraction astir him and emotion him, and we’re conscionable addressing those issues. It’s truly arsenic elemental arsenic that. He’s had a large life, he’ll proceed to person a large life. This is simply a bump that he’s gonna get over.”

Lil Nas was arrested successful the aboriginal hours of Aug. 21 successful Los Angeles’ Studio City neighborhood. The rapper was captured connected video wandering the streets wearing lone underwear and cowboy boots, and helium allegedly charged astatine constabulary officers who were attempting to instrumentality him into custody.

After a little hospitalization, Lil Nas was booked successful jail. He spent the play successful custody earlier being charged with 3 felony counts of artillery with wounded to a constabulary serviceman and a 4th felony number of resisting arrest.

Lil Nas pled not blameworthy to the charges and was granted bail connected Aug. 25. He posted connected Instagram the adjacent day, saying the brushwood was “f—king terrifying” but assuring fans, “Your miss is gonna beryllium each right.”

The rapper had engaged successful immoderate different antithetic behaviour successful the days starring up to the bare locomotion done Los Angeles, including changing his sanction connected Instagram to “Queen Madeline” and posting contented of himself successful assorted costumes.

Lil Nas’ begetter told quality outlets that his lad was experiencing intelligence instability during the incident. Police officers initially hospitalized the rapper for a imaginable cause overdose, but his attorneys person since stated that they bash not yet cognize whether drugs were involved.