We recently reported that Megan Thee Stallion would appear on CBS Mornings with Gayle King for her very first televised sit down interview addressing the 2020 shooting allegedly involving rapper Tory Lanez.
During the interview she gave more details about the incident revealing that Tory offered her and Kelsey $1mill for their silence and a text message to a body guard from Kelsey that read “Help, Tory shot Meg”.
Read some of the snips below via CBS:
In July of 2020, when Megan Thee Stallion said she would go through something she still has nightmares about to this day. After leaving a house party in the Hollywood Hills with rapper Tory Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, and a friend from Houston, she said there was an argument in the car because she wanted to leave and others didn’t.
“It was an argument because I was ready to go and everybody else wasn’t ready to go. But that’s, like, normal friend stuff,” Megan Thee Stallion told King. “It shouldn’t have got this crazy.”
“The argument was with the two people in the back seat. So I asked the driver to pull the car over. Like, I’m done with this. And I should have stayed out of the car. Like, I should have not got back in the car. And they was like, “Megan, just get back in the car. We’re almost there.” And, like, just, “Get back in.” So I get back in the car. It’s… getting worse,” she said.
As the argument escalated, Megan Thee Stallion said she got out of the car and that’s when she accuses Lanez of firing a gun at her several times.
“So I get out of the car and it’s like everything happens so fast. And all I hear is this man screaming. And he said, ‘Dance, bitch.’ And he started shooting. And I’m just like, ‘Oh, my God.’ Like, he shot a couple of times. And I was so scared,” said Megan Thee Stallion.
“So is he in the car shooting from the car, Megan? How is he?” King asked her to clarify.
“He is standing up over the window shooting. And I didn’t even want to move. I didn’t want to move too quick,” the rapper said. She told King that at the time she thought, “I don’t know if he’s gonna shoot something that’s, like, super important. I don’t know if he could shoot me and kill me.”
Megan Thee Stallion said she looked down at her feet and saw that she was bleeding. She said she crawled into someone’s driveway, shocked that Lanez had shot her.
After the shooting, Megan Thee Stallion said Lanez apologized and offered her money not to say anything.
“He’s, ‘I’m so sorry. Please don’t tell nobody. I’ll give y’all a million dollars if y’all don’t say nothing.’ And I’m like, ‘What are you talking about? Like, why are you offering me money right now? Help me. Like, and if you sorry, just help me,'” she said.
About the broken glass and Kelsey’s Texts
She was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where doctors told her she had bullet fragments in both her feet — some of which she said still remain.
Megan Thee Stallion told King that she initially told officers that she had stepped on broken glass to protect the group in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd.
“I was just trying to protect all of us because I didn’t want them to kill us. Like, even though this person just did this to me, my first reaction still was to try to save us. Like, I didn’t want to see anybody die. So I just said, “I stepped on glass,” she tearfully said.
That statement is something she said she wishes she had not said as it is commonly used against her by people who do not believe her account of that night.
“I wish I would have told the truth. But if it saved all of us from dying, then that’s just probably what it was meant to be,” she said.
She was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where doctors told her she had bullet fragments in both her feet — some of which she said still remain.
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About the people who do not believe her
“Half the time, I just want to pick up the phone and call my momma and be like, “What do I do?” Like it’s too much. I feel crazy. I’m sad. Like, and I feel like I have to hold it in because I have to be strong for so many people,” she said.
Megan Thee Stallion told King that she is not defending herself against people who don’t believe she was shot that night.
“Like, I know this happened to me and I’d rather it play out in court and the facts come out and everything comes out than me having to plead my case,” she said. “I’m a victim… I’m not defending myself against anything. Like, something happened to me.”
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Twitter reaction
Megan Thee Stallion responds to criticism for interviewing with Gayle King about being shot by Tory Lanez:
“So A man can shoot me, chop up horse legs in music videos to taunt me, pay blogs to spread false information […] but when I talk to gayle king that's the last straw…” pic.twitter.com/CiLGf56cZ8
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) April 25, 2022
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Megan Thee Stallion did pretty well in that Gayle King interview. Also, that text from Kelsey to Tory Lanez's security guard is a killer. That little nigga shot her and he's going to jail.
— Rae Sanni (@raesanni) April 25, 2022
and
When Tory Lanez is pronounced innocent he won’t even get an apology from horse Meg or anyone involved. Sadly this is how it goes for Black men.
— Juvėe (@JuveeWicks) April 25, 2022
and
I was on Megan side bro. But how tf can she do an interview about an ongoing case against Tory Lanez with Gayle King? Them fake ass tears are crazy. She's trying to win in the court of public opinion. Its weird.
— Eddie_PP (@EddiePReactions) April 25, 2022
and
crazy part is, y’all not even Tory Lanez fans. y’all just see an opportunity to hate a black woman.
— SLIM. (@_slimarella_) April 25, 2022
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