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DALLAS AUSTIN TALKS ABOUT DUBAI DEBACLE: Music producer tells EUR’s Lee Bailey it was ‘blown out of proportion.’
*EUR caught up with super producer Dallas Austin at last Thursday night’s big 25th anniversary party for Radio One in Washington D.C. and wasted no time trying to get him to speak on his drug bust in Dubai.
“It was blown way more out of proportion than what it really was,” Austin said of the ordeal, which saw him detained in a Dubai jail after pleading guilty to possessing 1.26 grams of cocaine in July.
“I wasn’t in prison, it was nothing like that,” he clarifies, adding that the facility where he was kept had plasma TVs and other creature comforts. “Knowing that I was gonna leave this place, I had one of the best experiences I could ever have.”
Austin said he never once thought that his incarceration would be permanent, despite reports that his offense carried a life sentence, and in some cases, an execution.
“I appreciate everybody’s prayers and everything, but it was no where near what got out in the press,” he told Bailey. “It got turned into a big issue just from hearsay.”
Austin said he was worried about what all these so-called false press accounts were doing to his worried mama back home in the States.
“I left a message for her that said, ‘Don’t listen to the press. You’re gonna start hearing stuff, that’s not what happened,’” he said.
“Well what did happen?” Bailey asked, as his handler tried to pull him away and into the party.
“I’ll talk to you about that one a little later,” he yelled back. “That takes a longer time, but I will talk to you about it.”
According to reports, Austin was arrested May 19 at Dubai's airport while en route to a birthday bash for supermodel Naomi Campbell. He told a judge that he unintentionally broke the law by bringing cocaine into the country.
