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Megan Thee Stallion opened up about the trauma she suffered after filming in 2020 in an upcoming interview with Gayle King, which will air on CBS Mornings this Monday.
The interview will mark the first time the 27-year-old rapper has addressed Tory Lanez’s alleged shooting on live television since he allegedly shot her feet as the duo left a Hollywood Hills party in July 2020.
“It was a fight because I was ready to go and everyone else wasn’t ready, but that’s like normal stuff with friends. We do stupid stuff all the time,” Megan Thee Stallion said in a released clip of the interview. “But… I never laid hands on anyone, I never raised my voice too loud. This was one of those moments when it shouldn’t have gotten so crazy.”
Megan Thee Stallion opens up about filming 2020 for the first time. (AP)
Explaining how the incident began, the female rap star claimed Lanez, legally known as Daystar Peterson, was standing in front of the parked car and “stood over the window and shot her.”
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“Well, I get out of the car and it’s like everything is going so fast,” she explains. “And all I hear is this man screaming, he said ‘Dance b–!’ And he started shooting. I just thought, ‘Oh my god.’ He shot a couple of times.”
During the interview preview, Megan Thee Stallion became emotional with King as she recalled the events.
“I didn’t even want to move. I didn’t want to move too fast because I was like, ‘Oh my god, if I take the wrong step, I don’t know if he could shoot something super important, I don’t know if he could shoot me and kill me,'” he said her in tears.
Rapper Tory Lanez reportedly shot Megan Thee Stallion’s feet after a party in the Hollywood Hills in July 2020. (AP)
Megan Thee Stallion added: “I was really scared because I had never been shot at before.”
Lanez pleaded not guilty to federal assault charges in November 2020.
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It was only after the alleged shooting that Lanez, 29, apologized to Stallion – real name Megan Pete – before “offering her money and asking her not to say anything,” according to Megan’s testimony in court in December. Megan also told the detective that Lanez “cited the fact that he was already on parole.”
Lanez pleaded not guilty to federal assault charges in November 2020. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for BMI)
Lanez, who was rumored to be dating Stallion, was present in the courtroom and listened to the testimony, Rolling Stone reported, adding that his attorney questioned the detective about asking Megan “how much she drank that day.” “.
The detective also passed on that, according to TMZ, Stallion said Lanez was intoxicated during the July 2020 incident.
After the shooting, Megan Thee Stallion published an op-ed in The New York Times calling for the protection of black women.
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In the article, titled “Why I Speak Up For Black Women,” the hip-hop star wrote that “Black women are still disrespected and disrespected in so many walks of life.”
“My initial silence about what happened was out of fear for me and my friends,” she wrote. “Even as a victim, I have faced skepticism and judgment. The way people have publicly questioned and debated whether I played a role in my own violent assault proves that unfortunately my fears about speaking out about what happened were justified.”
Megan Thee Stallion attends the 2019 American Music Awards in November 2019. (Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images)
However, Lanez has maintained his innocence. The day after the rapper was charged, Lanez tweeted that “the truth will come out” and “an indictment is not a conviction.”
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Megan Thee Stallion has had a breakthrough in the last two years that has propelled her into one of hip-hop’s biggest stars. She was nominated for Artist of the Year at the MTV Video Music Awards, was the musical guest on the season premiere of “Saturday Night Live,” and her guest appearance on the Cardi B song “WAP” helped direct the track — and the music video — a huge cultural phenomenon.
Julius Young of the Associated Press and Fox News contributed to this report.