Lawyers do say the funniest things!
The rapper known as Desiigner suffered a pair of manic episodes in the run-up to his April arrest for masturbating aboard a commercial flight, and an inadvertent encounter with some “laced” weed was partially to blame, according to his lawyer.
After the onetime Kanye West protégé, whose real name is Sidney Royel Selby III, was charged with exposing himself—and much, much more—while flying Delta Air Lines from Tokyo to Minneapolis, he issued an apology saying he had been hospitalized while overseas but did not say where or why.
“They gave me meds, and i had to hop on a plane home,” Selby wrote. “I am ashamed of my actions that happened on that plane. I landed back to the states, and am admitting my self [sic] in a facility to help me. I will be cancelling all of my shows and any obligations until further notice.”
However, a sentencing memo filed by Ryan Patrick Garry, who has represented the “Panda” rapper throughout the case, reveals further details about the 26-year-old’s mental state in the days prior to the mid-air episode.
Selby, who pleaded guilty Sept. 8 to indecent exposure aboard an aircraft, was in the midst of “an exhausting music tour,” the memo states. On Apr. 12, while in Thailand, a “dehydrated and exhausted” Selby “had a manic episode, which was likely due the stress of the tour and some unknown laced marijuana he smoked the night before,” it goes on. “During the manic episode, he asked his team to be taken to the hospital.”
Selby was taken to a local emergency room, where staffers administered IV fluids “and three other medications,” according to the memo, which says doctors “believed Mr. Selby was suffering from, amongst other things, marijuana intoxication and dehydration. Though exhausted, he recovered enough to be able to perform at a concert the next day.”
After the performance in Thailand, Selby and his crew flew to Tokyo for another concert, the memo continues.
“At a restaurant in Tokyo, Mr. Selby suffered a similar but milder manic episode, yet he managed to perform that night in Tokyo due to the already booked concert,” it says. “Mr. Selby was flying home to California on April 17, 2023 when the unfortunate incident in this case took place.”
there’s more if you can cope with it
https://www.thedailybeast.com/desiigners-lawyer-reveals-what-led-up-to-in-flight-masturbation
