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Megan Thee Stallionis opening up about the trauma from being shot inJuly 2020.
In a new preview of an upcoming interview withGayle King, airing Monday onCBS Mornings, the Grammy Award winner gives her account of the night that she saysTory Lanezallegedly shot her in both feet during a party in the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles.
“It was an argument because I was ready to go and everybody else wasn’t ready to go, but that’s like normal friend stuff. We fuss about silly stuff all the time,” the rapper, 27, says. “But … I never put my hands on anybody, I never raised my voice too loud. This was one of them times where it shouldn’t have got this crazy.”
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“So, I get out the car and it’s like, everything happens so fast,” she tells King. “And all I hear is this man screaming,he said, ‘Dance, bitch!‘And he started shooting. I’m just like, ‘Oh my God.’ He shot a couple of times.”
The preview of the interview shows that as she recounts to King what happened two years ago, she grows emotional.
“I didn’t even want to move. I didn’t want to move too quick, ‘cause I’m like, ‘Oh my God, if I take the wrong step, I don’t know if he could shoot something that’s super important, I don’t know if he could shoot me and kill me,’ " she says tearfully.
Tory Lanez.
TheGood Newsartist adds: “I was really scared ‘cause I had never been shot at before.”
Lanezwas arrestedat the time of the shooting and charged with carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle, before he was released on $35,000 bail the same day. Hewas later chargedin October 2020 with one felony count each of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, personal use of a firearm, and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle.
He haspleaded not guilty.
Most recently he was taken into custody earlier this month before being released on bond after, authorities said, he violated court orders prohibiting from contacting Megan Thee Stallion or discussing any discovery in the case with outside parties.
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Megan has previously opened up about the shooting on social media,naming Lanez as her shooterin an Instagram Live she shared with her followers in August 2020.
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source: people.com
