{"id":87109,"date":"2025-08-21T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/87109\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:03:08","slug":"lil-nas-x-hospitalized-for-possible-overdose-after-charging-at-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/87109\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X Hospitalized for Possible Overdose After Charging at Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grammy winner was seen walking down Ventura Boulevard in his underwear <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLil Nas was hospitalized for a possible overdose after charging at officers in Studio City in the early hours of Thursday morning. The rapper was handcuffed before being transported to a local hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to Rolling Stone that a naked man was found walking down Ventura Boulevard at 5:50 a.m after several concerned witnesses called the police. While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lapd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lapd\" data-tag=\"lapd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LAPD<\/a> did not confirm the rapper\u2019s name, TMZ shared <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/08\/21\/lil-nas-x-hospitalized-possible-overdose\/\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> of the 26-year-old walking on the same street in his underwear, incoherently speaking to the person taping him, telling them to put the phone down before beginning to mimic a ballroom strut and making comments about a party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAccording to the LAPD, the man charged at officers after they attempted to approach him. He was then placed in handcuffs and transported to seek medical care for a possible overdose. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe artist, whose real name is Montero Hill, is currently still being treated at the hospital and could still potentially be charged for a crime by the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tA rep for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lil-nas-x\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lil-nas-x\" data-tag=\"lil-nas-x\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Nas X<\/a> did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone\u2018s request for comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPrior to the incident, Lil Nas X had made a flurry of bizarre posts on his Instagram page, after deleting all earlier posts two days prior. On Wednesday, he shared unreleased music over mirror selfies, his art, and piles of junk in what appears to be his home. His display name had been changed to \u201cQUEEN MADELINE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLil Nas X\u2019s last full-length project was 2021\u2019s Montero. The LP followed up the success of his breakthrough single \u201cOld Town Road\u201d and ensuing mixtape 7. He had begun teasing a new album titled Dreamboy for release this year, starting with the 2024 single \u201cLight Again!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThis is the rapper\u2019s second reported hospitalization this year, having shared a video from a hospital bed this April, explaining he had suffered from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lil-nas-x-hospitalized-partial-facial-paralysis-1235317882\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">partial facial paralysis<\/a>. He never shared publicly what caused the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Grammy winner was seen walking down Ventura Boulevard in his underwear Lil Nas was hospitalized for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,51670,51671],"class_list":["post-87109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-lapd","tag-lil-nas-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}