Hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion has opened up for the first time about the 2020 shooting allegedly involving rapper Tory Lanez – saying she thought he might “shoot and kill me”.
Megan, 27, got emotional in a new interview with CBS Mornings host Gayle King, as she described how Lanez allegedly fired multiple shots at her feet while “dancing b—” outside a Hollywood Hills home. h” shouted.
“I didn’t want to move too fast because I was like, ‘Oh my God. If I make the wrong move, I don’t know if he’s going to flip something that’s super important,” Megan says in a clip from the session published Sunday.
“I don’t know if he could shoot and kill me.”
King then asks, “Were you afraid for your life at the time?”
“I was really scared because I’d never been shot at before,” Megan replies.
Megan Thee Stallion described how Tory Lanez allegedly fired multiple shots at her feet. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP
The interview with Megan Thee Stallion will air in full Monday on CBS Mornings. Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP
Lanez, 29, is scheduled to go on trial over the alleged shooting outside a Hollywood Hills home in July 2020, where he is accused of injuring Megan by multiple gunshots to the ground.
Megan ended up with shrapnel in her feet. She initially claimed she sustained the injuries by stepping on glass before changing her story and blaming Lanez.
The rapper reportedly asked her to keep quiet about the incident as he was on probation.
Tory Lanez faces trial over alleged shootingPrince Williams/Wireimage
Tory Lanez has pleaded not guilty to one charge of assault and has denied the allegations. Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images
In the interview, which will air all Monday on CBS Mornings, Megan explained how after leaving a party in the Hollywood Hills with Lanez and a friend from Houston, an argument broke out because she wanted to leave and others didn’t t.
“But that’s kind of like regular stuff with friends that we get upset about all the time… silly stuff,” she explained. “But I never shook hands with anyone. I never raised my voice too loud.
“For example, that was one of those moments when it shouldn’t have gotten so crazy.”
Megan Thee Stallion spoke for the first time about the 2020 shooting allegedly involving Tory Lanez.Twitter/@CBSMornings
The “WAP” rapper said the argument escalated after she got out of the car and Lanez allegedly stood “over the window” and shot her.
“So I get out of the car and it’s like everything is going so fast. And all I hear is that man screaming. And he said, ‘Dance, bitch.’ And he started shooting. And I’m just like, ‘Oh my God.’ He shot a few times. And I was so scared,” she recalls.
Lanez has pleaded not guilty to one charge of assault and has denied the allegations. The case is expected to go to court in September.