"You hear sirens at the end of 'Faith' - that’s me in the back of the cop car" The Weeknd has opened up about one of the “darkest” periods of his life, culminating in the singer getting arrested in Las Vegas after punching a police officer.
The artist, real name Abel Tesfaye, was arrested on one count of misdemeanor battery of a protected person on January 10, 2015, following an incident at the Cromwell Hotel in Las Vegas.
Tesfaye explained to Variety that ‘Faith’, from his latest album ‘After Hours’, addresses that era of his career “around 2013, 2014,” calling it “the darkest time of my entire life.” “I was getting really, really tossed up and going through a lot of personal stuff,” he said in the new interview. “I got arrested in Vegas.