Megan Thee Stallion Opens Up About The Public Criticizing Her For The Shooting Allegedly Involving Tory Lanez
16.06.2022 - 01:59
/ etcanada.com
Megan Thee Stallion gets vulnerable about the negative media backlash following her claim rapper Tory Lanez shot her.
The multi-talented artist looks back on her career and her changing public perception as Rolling Stone‘s cover star for their July “Hot” issue.
Stallion topped the Billboard Hot 100 with her “Savage” remix and was the It Girl of the rap game until she believes the public turned on her following her involvement with Lanez and the alleged shooting.
On the night of July 11, 2020, Stallion was hanging out with friends Lanez and Kelsey Harris when the evening ended with bullet shards in her feet.
Though she initially denied she was shot, the artist eventually confessed in an Instagram live that Lanez was her assailant.
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“I thought we had a real connection,” she said of Lanez, who also lost his mother. “I thought he knew me. And I never would’ve thought he would’ve shot at me at all.”
In another shocking confession, the 27-year-old revealed that on the same night of the shooting she had to undergo gruelling surgery.
“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 recalled. “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 f–ked up.”
Eventually she did recover, but was still haunted by the aftermath of the shooting.
“I feel shame, a little bit, because even after he shot me, I still was thinking about everybody else in the