[2] In November 2016, Ewa was arrested and later convicted of bodily harm, abuse of minors and tax violations in connection with the prostitution of five of her fans, some of whom were underage.

[1] When Ewa was 3 years old, her mother left Poland and headed for West Berlin, with the aim of seeking asylum in the United States.

[8][9] Xatar's flight and subsequent arrest impacted Ewa's career – she found herself "twiddling her thumbs", unable to share her tracks with him.

[10] No tracks from Realität charted, but her first music video, "Schwätza" ("Small Talker") received over six million views on YouTube.

[12] Many of Schwesta Ewa's songs cover scenes from her life as a prostitute, and she describes herself as a storytelling rapper; topics include being attacked by johns, and being forced to watch the rape of a friend.

"[13] At 8:30 AM on 16 November 2016, Ewa was arrested by a SEK police tactical unit in Oeventrop, a district of Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia where she was recording her new album.

[14] She was detained at JVA Frankfurt-Preungesheim [de] on charges of human trafficking for sexual exploitation, pimping, bodily harm, and offenses against the German tax code.

[3] Ewa had been under investigation by the organised crime department of Frankfurt Police for several months, and was alleged to have brought young female fans, between the ages of 17 and 19, to a hotel room and offered to lend them money for costs such as rent, clothing, cosmetics and petrol, then forced them into prostitution to repay this debt.

[15] On 20 June 2017, Malanda was found guilty of 35 counts of bodily harm, tax violations and the abuse of minors, and was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months.

[16] In February 2021, Malanda announced via Instagram that she had been released from prison early for good behavior, having served two-thirds of her sentence.