A Slovakian Macklemore fan got more than she bargained for when she joined the “Thrift Shop” rapper on stage last weekend.
On Saturday, August 17, the 41-year-old Grammy winner was playing at the Lovestream festival in Bratislava when he decided to mention a fan named Samantha during his performance of “Downtown,” according to a fan recording from the festival.
As the police of the Slovak Republic announced on their Facebook page a few days later, and multiple media outlets are now reporting, the 24-year-old fan was actually wanted by the authorities and arrested shortly after her performance on stage.
The National Police Force announced on Monday, August 19, in a post roughly translated into English, that the woman had been chosen to sing with “one of the foreign artists” during the event, sharing a picture of the woman and Macklemore on stage. As stated, she ended up “immortalizing this experience and bragging about it” on social media.
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Macklemore brings a fan to the stage in Slovakia on August 17, 2024.
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After her posting online, an “observant citizen” recognized the woman from a Slovakian website documenting the fugitives and “immediately informed the police.” The authorities then detained the woman before, according to the police, she was “escorted to the premises of the institution for the execution” of the prison sentence she has not yet served.
A representative for Macklemore did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
A video shared by a fan at a festival last weekend shows a woman jumping around the stage with a microphone in hand during Macklemore’s 2016 hit “Downtown,” which Setlist.fm noted he played midway through the 10-song set.
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Macklemore.
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Although the forces of the Slovak Republic did not reveal why the woman was wanted or what her prison sentence was, TMZ i Rolling Stone both report (citing local media) that she was previously fined for running shirtless onto the pitch at a soccer match in 2019, NME reports, citing the Slovakian publication Plus 7that she was fined 800 euros after a conflict with the law in 2019.
Elsewhere during Macklemore’s performance last weekend, the crowd was “evacuated” because “it was raining as hard as it can rain” and lightning was appearing throughout the festival, the rapper wrote on Instagram after the show.
“Just when we lost hope, the festival informed us that they were letting people back in. I’m sure some went home, but from my eye 25,000 beautiful wet people returned to their seats with spirits as charged as lightning [sic] in the distance,” he wrote after the party. “We’ve come too far to turn back and the weather gods have given us a window.”
“Something about a show that’s almost canceled makes you appreciate every moment on stage even more,” he added. “Gratitude follows and that echoed throughout the festival. We were alive, wet and gave everything. I love you Bratislava. I will never forget our night together.”
After a string of international shows in the coming months, Macklemore will head to his hometown of Seattle for a performance at The Residency in late November.
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