Megan Thee Stallion is finally ready to talk about Tory Lanez allegedly shooting her in 2020.
The Grammy-winning rapper, 27, sat down with CBS’ Gayle King for her first TV interview about the incident. In the interview, which aired Monday on “CBS Mornings,” Megan Thee Stallion (real name: Megan Pete) shared a tearful recollection of what happened.
Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, was charged in 2020 with shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the feet outside of a party in Hollywood Hills that July. The felony assault case is ongoing, and he was briefly jailed earlier this month after a judge said he had violated a protective order.
The incident began as an “argument because I was ready to go and everybody else wasn’t ready to go,” Megan Thee Stallion told King. “But that’s like normal friend stuff. We fuss about silly stuff all the time.”
Speaking through tears, Megan Thee Stallion said: “But I never put my hands on anybody, I never raised my voice too loud. Like, this was one of them times where it was like – it shouldn’t have got this crazy.”
The rapper said she got out of the car and “everything (happened) so fast”: She suddenly heard a man screaming “dance,” followed by an expletive directed toward her.
“And then he started shooting. And I’m just like, ‘Oh, my God,’ ” she recalled. “He shot a couple of times. I was so scared. … I didn’t even want to move. I didn’t want to move too quick. I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, if I take a wrong step, I don’t know if he can shoot something that’s super-important. I don’t know if he could shoot me and kill me.’ “
King asked Megan Thee Stallion if she was afraid for her life at that time. “I was really scared, because I had never been shot at before,” she replied while choking up.
