Grammy-winning star Megan Thee Stallion tearfully advised a jury Tuesday how fellow rapper – and ex-lover – Tory Lanez, shot her within the toes with a semi-automatic handgun after he yelled ‘dance b***h.’
The singer, 27, testified towards Lanez on the second day of his trial in a packed felony courtroom in downtown Los Angeles, telling jurors: ‘I used to be so scared.’
Megan revealed that she has nerve injury and remains to be coping with the bodily repercussions of the alleged capturing – and Lanez instantly supplied her $1million to not inform the police what had occurred.
Recalling the fateful day, she advised the court docket: ‘I regarded again and I noticed Tory with the gun and I froze. I used to be in shock. I’m listening to a gun go off.
The rapper entered the court docket at present carrying a purple energy go well with
Megan Thee Stallion took the stand in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday morning, lastly confronting Canadian rapper Tory Lanez
‘I wasn’t positive if this was actually occurring. I regarded down at my toes they usually had been bleeding.’
Wearing a hanging purple pantsuit and heels, Megan minimize an imposing determine Tuesday as she took the witness stand simply 20 toes away from the {accused} hip-hop artist who wore a cream-colored go well with and white turtleneck shirt.
Lanez, 30 – whose actual identify is Daystar Peterson – has pleaded not responsible to felony expenses of assaulting Megan with a semiautomatic firearm and carrying a hid firearm in a automobile. He might spend as much as 12 years in jail if convicted.
Final week the LA DA added a 3rd felony cost – discharging a firearm with gross negligence – which carries a further most six-year jail time period, plus attainable deportation for the Canadian-born musician. He’s denied the third cost as nicely.
Megan – actual identify Megan Pete – fought again tears as advised the jury of eight girls and 4 males Tuesday that earlier than the evening of the capturing in 2020, she and Lanez had been shut associates.
‘We used to hang around on a regular basis, consuming collectively, going to events’ stated the music artist who received a ‘Finest Rap Tune’ Grammy final yr for her tune ‘Savage’
‘When my mom died, I believe I used to be searching for individuals to fill within the void. I felt like he (Lanez) might be my pal.’
Megan Thee Stallion’s sharing footage of the accidents her foot sustained after Tory Lanez allegedly shot her
Tory Lanez was wearing a tan go well with as he attends LA Superior Courtroom
When Deputy District Lawyer Kathy Ta requested Megan, ‘Had been you intimate with him?’ shew reply ‘sure.’
‘Had been you unique?’ Ta then requested. ‘No,’ stated Megan.
Ta then questioned Megan in regards to the evening of July 12 2020 when she, her assistant and finest pal Kelsey Harris and Lanez had been all at a pool get together at Kylie Jenner’s residence within the Hollywood Hills.
Megan was within the pool in a thong bikini when her ‘wig began to return off and I used to be able to go,’ she advised the court docket.
She requested Tory if they may go away in his SUV together with his driver however ‘he didn’t wish to go away. He had perspective’.
When she lastly persuaded him to take off, within the automotive: ‘He nonetheless had perspective as a result of he was not prepared to go away the get together.
‘He stated to me “It’s important to cease mendacity to your pal (Kelsey).”
‘I do know Kelsey had a crush on him (Lanez). He was implying that we we’re each hiding one thing from her. (On Monday, Lanez protection group claimed Megan had slept with Lanez behind Kelsey’s again).
‘Then everyone acquired into an argument. Kelsey was saying, “What are you speaking about? Mendacity about what?”
Pausing throughout an emotional second, Megan advised Ta that being in court docket Tuesday ‘simply doesn’t really feel good. I can’t consider I’ve to return right here and do that.’
Megan – actual identify Megan Pete – fought again tears as advised the jury of eight girls and 4 males Tuesday that earlier than the evening of the capturing in 2020, she and Lanez had been shut associates
Lanez pictured in a court docket sketch on Tuesday
Persevering with her testimony, Megan advised the court docket that within the automotive, Tory ‘acquired offended’ and began calling her and Kelsey ‘b****es and ‘h**s.’
She requested Lanez driver to cease and he or she acquired out. However realizing she nonetheless solely had skimpy bathing go well with on, she acquired again within the automotive the place ‘Tory and Kelsey had been screaming on the prime of their lungs at one another.’
Megan continued: ‘Tory stored telling me principally I wasn’t s**t. He simply stored yelling and cursing.’
She requested to cease once more and this time when she acquired out, she advised the court docket: ‘I began strolling away and I heard Tory say, ‘dance b***h.’
Requested by Ta to elucidate precisely what she noticed when se regarded again towards Lanez, Megan stated: ‘Him holding the gun, pointing it at me. The whole lot was a giant blur. I felt ache in each my toes.’
She ultimately acquired again into the SUV and, simply earlier than cops pulled the automotive over, she stated: ‘Tory stated to us, “Please don’t say something. I already acquired caught with a gun earlier than. I’ll give y’all 1,000,000 {dollars}. Don’t inform on me.
‘He stored apologizing and asking us to not inform…..I bear in mind pondering, “Why ain’t you apprehensive about how I’m – you simply shot me.”’
On Monday, Lanez’ protection group advised that it was Kelsey, not Lanez who fired the gun.
However on Tuesday, Ta requested Megan: ‘Did you see Kelsey Holding the gun that evening?’ ‘No,’ stated Megan.
When police who stopped the SUV requested her what had happed to her toes, she advised them she had stepped on damaged glass.
She defined Tuesday that she did that as a result of that point in July 2020 was when the Black Lives Matter motion was born following the demise of George Floyd.
Megan Thee Stallion at court docket in Los Angeles. On Monday, Lanez’ protection group advised that it was Kelsey, not Lanez who fired the gun
Megan pictured in a court docket sketch at present. She stated she remains to be coping with the bodily repercussions of the alleged capturing
‘This was on the top of police brutality. I didn’t need them to shoot first and ask questions later.
‘Within the black group it’s not acceptable to be cooperative with the police. I didn’t wish to see anyone die.’
Speaking in regards to the hip-hop music business, Megan added: ‘The entire state of affairs within the business is sort of a huge boys membership. Like I’m telling on certainly one of their associates and now they’re about to hate me.’
Ta confirmed her a photograph of her injured left foot with stitches from the surgical procedure she had that evening and, stated Megan: ‘I am nonetheless have nerve injury. I can’t really feel the left facet of my foot.’
She added that Lanez later texted her apologizing and her response was: ‘I used to be sick. Why are you bothering me?’
Earlier than his jury trial even began, Lanez twice ran afoul of the presiding justice, LA Superior Courtroom Decide David Herriford.
First, final April the decide elevated his bail quantity from $250,000 to $350,000 after discovering that Lanez had Tweeted about Megan, violating a protecting order he was beneath that stops him from making any social media feedback about her or coming inside a 100 yards of her.
Then, on October 26, Decide Herriford imposed home arrest on Lanez – ordering him to put on a GPS ankle monitor till his trial – after listening to that he allegedly assaulted hip-hop singer and songwriter, August Alsina, 30, in Chicago final September.
Final week, earlier than the jury was chosen, on the request of Lanez’
protection group, the decide allowed him to take away the ankle monitor and stay on $350,000 bail throughout his trial.
Megan Thee Stallion took the stand in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday morning
