Tory Lanez pleaded not guilty to multiple charges
Rapper Megan Thee Stallion recently sat down exclusively with CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King for her first TV interview addressing the July 12, 2020 shooting allegedly involving rapper Tory Lanez. Lanez pleaded not guilty to assault and weapons charges related to the shooting.
“It — it was a argument because I was ready to go and everybody else wasn’t ready to go. But that’s, like, normal friend stuff,” she explains. “Like, we fuss about silly shit — silly stuff all the time. 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.
“The arguing in the car is getting worse. And I don’t want to be in this car no more. Like, ’cause I see it’s getting crazy. So I get out of the car and it’s like everything happens so fast. And all I hear is this man screaming. And he said, ‘Dance, bitch.’ And he started shooting. And I’m just like, ‘Oh, my God.’ Like, he shot a couple of times. And I– I was so scared.
“He is standin’ up over the window shooting. And I didn’t even want to move. I didn’t want to move too quick. Like, ’cause I’m like, ‘Oh, my God.’ If I take the wrong step, I don’t know if he’s gonna shoot something that’s, like, super important. I don’t know if he could shoot me and kill me.
“I was really scared ’cause I had never been shot at before. And I looked down at my feet, ’cause I wasn’t even– the adrenaline is pumpin’ so hard. I’m not sure if he hit me. Like, I feel it. But I don’t understand what’s happening. So I looked down at my feet. I’m like, ‘Oh, my God.’ Like, I’m really bleeding. So I, like, drop down and I crawl in somebody’s driveway. Like, I can’t believe he shot me.”
She says she also felt for her life when police arrived, so she initially told them she had stepped on glass.
“I was just trying to protect all of us because I didn’t want them to kill us. Like, even though this person just did — just did this to me, my first reaction still was to try to save us. Like, I didn’t want to see anybody die. So I just said, ‘I stepped on glass.’ So when I see people trying to use that against me, like trying to act like I’m lying, ‘Oh, she stepped on glass. She never got shot,’ I’m the one who said I stepped on glass. I was lying to protect all of us. And I — sometimes I wish I really would have never said that,” she shares.
Rapper @theestallion says she knew she could rap at 7 years old — and by the time she got to college, "Megan Thee Stallion” became her identity.
She tells @GayleKing about her parents’ impact on her life, becoming a megastar and the night she was allegedly shot by Tory Lanez. pic.twitter.com/oEmclNdVDe
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) April 25, 2022
.@theestallion shares her story of the 2020 incident when she was shot in her feet, allegedly by Tory Lanez.
She says she initially told police she stepped on glass, because she feared for her life: “I was just trying to protect all of us because I didn't want them to kill us.” pic.twitter.com/qd4MJ1yN2w
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) April 25, 2022
