Megan Thee Stallion Says She Wants Tory Lanez Locked Up For Allegedly Shooting Her: “I Want Him To Go To Jail”
In Megan Thee Stallion’s new cover story for Rolling Stone, the rap star recalls the traumatizing night of the shooting with Tory Lanez. During the interview, Megan opened up about how she physically recovered after allegedly being shot in the foot by Lanez, how she felt betrayed by him and her former bff Kelsey Nicole, and what she wishes to see happen to Lanez at the end of their trial.
“I want him to go to jail,” Megan says. “I want him to go under the jail,” she told writer Mankaprr Conteh. Speaking about Lanez she continued, “I feel like you’ve already tried to break me enough. You’ve already shot me. So, why are you dragging it out like this? Like, what else? Have you hated me this much the whole time and I didn’t see it?”
The frustrated star added that she feels like people haven’t been taking her experience seriously and doesn’t understand why, citing the ridicule and endless social media memes: “In some kind of way I became the villain,” she said. “And I don’t know if people don’t take it seriously because I seem strong. I wonder if it’s because of the way I look. Is it because I’m not light enough? Is it that I’m not white enough? Am I not the shape? The height? Because I’m not petite? Do I not seem like I’m worth being treated like a woman?”
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Earlier in the interview, Megan talks about feeling betrayed by the two people who she felt were her friends: “I thought we had a real connection,” she says of Lanez. She believed she and the rapper had bonded over the mutual loss of their mothers; Lanez’s mom died of anemia complications when he was 11. “I thought he knew me. And I never would’ve thought he would’ve shot at me at all. I never put my hands on this man,” she continues. “I never did anything to him. There was an argument. People argue every day. Friends argue every day.”
Sharing more details, Megan revealed, “What nobody knows is, I had to get the surgery the same night. I stayed in the hospital in California for maybe four days,” she says. “Then I was in New York for a while. Both of my legs wrapped up. I could not walk. I still have bullet fragments in my feet right now. I was very scared that I was not able to be Megan Thee Stallion no more. And I was fucked up.” She started physical therapy in New York before traveling to Tampa, Florida, where she regained the ability to walk, the outlet notes.
Megan claims that Kelsey, who was there during the shooting, met with Lanez at a hotel less than two days after the shooting. “I’m like, ‘Kelsey, as my best friend, why would you meet up with the person you saw shoot your best friend?’” Megan tells me. “She said, ‘Megan, y’all wasn’t answering my calls. My back was against the wall. I didn’t know what to do.’ What the fuck do you mean your back is against the wall? You’re the only person in this situation that would clear this up for me.”
Tory Lanez is not allowed to publicly speak on the case, per the order of a judge. However, Here’s what Kelsey had to say about all of this: