Megan Thee Stallion is opening up about the 2020 shooting that left the Grammy-winner injured and traumatized.
On July 12, 2020, Megan Thee Stallion was rushed to the hospital for treatment for gunshot wounds after an alleged argument with rapper Tory Lanez (born Daystar Peterson). A few days later, Megan described the incident in an Instagram post. “On Sunday morning, I suffered gunshot wounds, as a result of a crime that was committed against me and done with the intention to physically harm me,” she wrote. “I was never arrested, the police officers drove me to the hospital where I underwent surgery to remove the bullets. I’m incredibly grateful to be alive and that I’m expected to make a full recovery, but it was important for me to clarify details about this traumatic night. I’m currently focused on my recovery, so I can return back to my life and back to making music as soon as possible.”
In October of that year, Lanez was charged with “one felony count of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, personal use of a firearm, and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle.” He has pleaded not guilty.
Now, nearly two years later, Megan Thee Stallion is opening up about what happened in an exclusive television interview with Gayle King, which will air on CBS Mornings on Monday, April 25. In a preview released on April 24, Megan explained what was going through her head that evening. Through tears, she told King, “I was really scared because I had never been shot at before.”
“It was an argument because I was ready to go and everybody else wasn’t ready to go. But that’s normal friends stuff. We fuss about silly stuff all the time,” the 27-year-old explained in the video. “But…I never put my hands on anybody, I never raised my voice too loud. Like, this was one of them times where it was like, it shouldn’t have got this crazy.”
From there, Megan told King that “everything happened so fast” after she got out of the car. “All I hear is this man screaming. He said, ‘Dance, bitch,’ and he started shooting,” she said. “And I’m just like, ‘Oh, my God!’ Like, he shot a couple of times.”
She continued, “I didn’t even want to move. I didn’t want to move too quick because I’m like, Oh, my God, if I take the wrong step, I don’t know if he can shoot something that’s like, super important. I don’t know if he’s gonna shoot me and kill me.”
You can watch the full preview clip here.
