LOS ANGELES (AP) – More than a month after she was shot in the feet after a party in the Hollywood Hills, Megan Thee Stallion said for the first time Thursday night that fellow hip-hop star Tory Lanez was the person which pulls the trigger.
‘Yes … Tory shot me. You shot me and your publicist and your people went to these blogs, “said the 25-year-old rapper, whose legal name is Megan Pete, on an Instagram Live video. ‘Stop lying. Why lie? I can not understand. ‘
Representatives for Lanez, a 28-year-old rapper and singer whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, did not respond to requests for comment late Thursday night, and have not responded to several previous requests for comment from The Associated Press.
Pete said she did not tell Los Angeles police who came to the scene on July 12 about the shooting because she was afraid of the legal consequences, and feared for her safety.
“I did not tell the police anything because I did not want us to get into any more trouble,” she says in the video.
Peterson was arrested the morning of the incident on suspicion of possession of a concealed weapon and was later released on bail the same day, but is not charged with anything related to the incident. Police and prosecutors say the case remains under investigation.
Pete, Peterson and others share an SUV after the party in the early hours of July 12th. She said in the video that there was an argument between the people in the car, and Peterson shot her as she tried to run away. She denied rumors that she had hit him in the SUV.
Pete said publicly at first that she was shot later that week, and has gradually revealed more in various posts on social media since it happened, mostly in response to what she said were false stories.
She said from the beginning that she expected them to fully recover, but said in subsequent posts that the shooting, which required her to have surgery to remove the bullets, was “super scary. ‘And’ the worst experience of my life, ‘and she felt blessed to have the gun hit where it did.
She consistently refused to call Peterson until Thursday night, when she did tweeted, “Lie down one more time and stop saving.”
Megan Thee Stallion was already a major hip-hop star after a triumphant year that recently saw her nominated for Artist of the Year at the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards, and in recent days has become part of an enormous cultural phenomenon with her guest stint on the Cardi B song “WAP.” The bawdy celebration of women’s sexuality this week hit the Billboard Hot 100 at no. 1 in.
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