Megan Thee Stallion Says Tory Lanez Offered Her Money To Stay Silent After Shooting — Tory’s Team Denies Claims
In a moving cover piece for GQ where the magazine labeled the star “Rapper of The Year,” Megan Thee Stallion talks about how she’s trying to get past the traumatizing incident involving Tory Lanez and continue to focus on her successful career instead.
While speaking with the Magazine, Megan looked back on one of “the worst experience of [her] life” — the shooting that she endured in July and the weeks that followed. She briefly recalled the moment when an argument after a pool party led to Lanez shooting her in the foot: “Like, I never put my hands on nobody,” she says. “I barely even said anything to the man who shot me when I was walking away. We were literally like five minutes away from the house.” She said after he shot her, Lanez begged her not to say anything and even offered Megan and her friend money to stay quiet. “[At this point] I’m really scared,” Megan explained, “because this is like right in the middle of all the protesting. Police are just killing everybody for no reason, and I’m thinking, ‘I can’t believe you even think I want to take some money. Like, you just shot me,’” GQ quotes. The magazine noted that a lawyer for Lanez has denied that the rapper offered Megan and her friend hush money.
Despite all the summer chaos, Megan was determined to “take control of this.” She had to remind herself, “I’m still Megan Thee Stallion.” Although she had to cut a few close friends from her circle, there’s still some people who are still standing by the superstar’s side, like Beyoncé and Jay-Z. During the interview, the 25-year-old revealed the great advice they recently gave her.
She explained,
“She’s so calm,” Megan says of Beyoncé. “She would just be like, ‘Megan, live your life.’ Then Jay-Z will call me and be like, ‘Hey, listen, you know, you supposed to be turning up right now. You really need to be somewhere driving a boat. Live your life. Just fuck that.’ ”)
During her interview, she was also asked what she wanted for the women who listened to her music, what she hoped she was inspiring women to do:
“I want Black women to be louder,” she said. “I want us to be sassier. I want us to demand more, be more outspoken, keep speaking and just keep demanding what you deserve. Don’t change—just get better. Grow from these situations. Don’t be beating yourself up about these situations, because that’d be a lot of problems too. I feel we keep this stuff in and there’s some kind of way we flip it on ourselves. We didn’t fuck up—We didn’t do something wrong, and it’s like, ‘No, girl, relax. You just needed somebody to come stir the Kool-Aid.’ ”
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