Megan Thee Stallion gave tearful testimony on the second day of Tory Lanez‘s criminal trial in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
Megan, 27, wore a purple pantsuit which she accessorized with a Chanel rainbow calfskin handbag. Her real hair was cut in an asymmetrical bob that accentuated her pretty face.
Megan’s voice cracked as she recalled her ex-boyfriend shooting at her following a dispute in an SUV after attending a pool party at Kylie Jenner‘s house in July 2020.
“I just don’t feel good,” Megan told the prosecutor when asked if she was “nervous” about testifying in a packed courtroom. “I can’t believe I have to come up here and do this,” she said.
“We used to hang out all the time,” she said when asked if she knew the defendant. Megan admitted the two had an “intimate” but not serious relationship.
She was asked about her relationship with Kelsey Harris — whom the rapper identified as her “best friend since freshman year of college” who later became her personal assistant.
Megan said the party at Kylie’s house was winding down, and she decided to leave.
“My hair [wig] was starting to come off and I wanted to go,” she said, before noting that Tory “had an attitude because he wasn’t ready to leave the party.”
Eventually, Megan, Kelsey, Tory, and his security guard Jauquan Smith, who had driven him to Jenner’s house, left the party together in a black SUV.
Megan said tension escalated in the SUV when Tory, 30, allegedly told her, “You need to stop lying to your friend” (Kelsey) regarding their sexual relationship. Megan had been accused of sleeping with every man Kelsey dated. Megan told the court she “didn’t want [Kelsey] to know I had [slept] with him in any kind of way.”
She said Kelsey was angry after Tory hinted about their sexual situationship, and Tory provoked the two women when he called them both “bi—es and h–s,” Megan said.
Megan asked the driver to let her out of the vehicle on Sunset Boulevard but quickly realized she was “literally at the peak” of her career and only wearing a “thong [bikini]” in the middle of the “most famous” street in L.A.
She didn’t want to draw any unwanted attention (and paparazzi), so she got back inside the SUV where the argument with Kelsey continued. Megan asked again to be let out on a side street because she was “over it.”
“I started walking away and I hear Tory yell, ‘Dance, bi–h!'” she said through tears. She added that she saw Tory pointing a gun at her and firing multiple shots.
“I froze. I just felt shock. I felt hurt. I looked down at my feet, and I see all of this blood,” she said before explaining that she fell to the ground and crawled to a nearby driveway.
“Everything feels blurry,” she said, as she lost a lot of blood. Both Kelsey and Tory bumped into each other while running over to her. “Tory was basically telling me I wasn’t sh-t, and I said, ‘Actually, you ain’t sh-t. This is where you at in your career. This is where you at with your music.’ And I feel like that really rubbed him the wrong way,” she said.
Megan sobbed and dabbed her eyes with tissue as she recalled “every man that’s in a position of power that’s in the music industry” didn’t want to believe her side of the story. “I’m a villain, and he’s the victim,” she claimed. She said that’s one of the reasons why she told police that she cut her foot stepping on broken glass.
Four days after the shooting, during a phone interview with Detective Ryan Stogner, Megan alleged she had suffered a gunshot wound, she said. “This was the height of police brutality and George Floyd,” she testified, adding that she feared everyone would wind up dead if she told officers Tory had shot her. “I didn’t want to see anybody die. I didn’t want to die,” she cried.
She added that her current boyfriend, fellow rapper Pardison Fontaine, is “embarrassed” about the allegations of her previous entanglements with industry men, rappers, and professional athletes. “I can’t even be happy… I wish he had just shot and killed me,” she cried.
“I’ve never been with anyone Kelsey’s been with,” she told one of Tory’s defense attorneys, contradicting the attorney’s opening statement from Monday when he argued that she had also been romantically involved with fellow rapper DaBaby and NBA player Ben Simmons who had both slept with Kelsey.
When the defense attorney asked her why she didn’t tell police at the hospital that she had been shot, Megan replied, “Snitching is frowned upon in the hip-hop community.”
