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‘Going through torture’: Megan Thee Stallion testifies against Tory Lanez | Megan you stallion

December 14, 2022

Megan Thee Stallion gave moving testimony Tuesday at the trial of Tory Lanez, the fellow musician and former friend who allegedly shot her after a party in Los Angeles.

The Texas-born rapper, whose real name is Megan Pete, has shared the most detailed account yet of the moment leading up to the shooting in 2020. She described how the attack left her in pain. constantly on the feet and said reliving the incident in the public eye had been “torture”.

“I don’t want to be on this Earth,” Pete said at one point during a day-long testimony. “I wish he had shot me and killed me if I knew I would be going through this torture.”

Pete was often overcome with emotion and sniffled softly when Los Angeles County District Attorney Kathy Ta questioned him about the July 12, 2020, early morning shooting.

Ta showed Pete and police body camera footage of Pete’s courtroom being ordered out of a large black vehicle and hobbling to the sidewalk with his feet bleeding. The video of the rapper crying heavily in the back of an ambulance had Pete wiping his nose reliving it.

“I can’t believe I have to come here and do this,” Pete, 27, said while on the witness stand.

Tory Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, faces more than 22 years in prison if convicted on the three counts he faces. Peterson, 30, claimed his innocence and accused Pete of lying.

Throughout the prosecutor’s questioning, Peterson’s attorney, George Mgdesyan, repeatedly objected fervently to Pete’s recounting of the events leading up to the car ride that precipitated the shooting.

Pete said the incident took place following a party at Kylie Jenner’s house. An argument broke out after Peterson revealed to Pete’s longtime friend Kelsey Harris that he and Pete had been intimate. Harris is also set to testify at trial.

At some point during the car ride, Peterson turned around in the vehicle and told Pete to stop lying to Harris about their relationship. Pete said Tuesday that she and Peterson became friends after they both lost their mothers, and sometimes had sex with each other. Harris, who had a “crush” on Peterson, was unaware of the musicians’ relationship until the verbal disagreement, Pete said.

Peterson later called the two women “bitches and hos” as tensions flared, Pete testified. The two have also verbally argued during their music careers.

Pete told the courtroom she asked to get out of the car near the Hollywood Hills home she was staying in, but as she drove away Pete said she heard Peterson shouting “dance, bitch”, and when she turned her head to face him, he was hanging part way out of the car with a gun pointed at her. Then he started shooting.

Shortly after leaving the scene, the police stopped the vehicle in which Pete, Harris, Peterson and his security guard were.

Pete said Peterson begged her and Harris not to tell police she was shot by him because he had previous legal issues and didn’t want to get in more trouble. Pete added that Peterson offered the two former friends $1 million to shut up.

“Why don’t you worry about how I’m doing?” You just shot me! Pete remembers thinking when Peterson asked him to shut up.

Peterson was eventually arrested for concealing a weapon and after months of speculation, Pete took to Instagram Live to say Peterson had shot him.

The aftermath of the shooting played out largely online and struck a chord in the hip-hop community, highlighting how the treatment and abuse of black women is largely ignored in society. During Tuesday’s testimony, Pete described the rap game as a “boys club” and said she knew she would be hated because she was “telling one of your friends.”

During cross-examination, Mgdesyan focused much of his questioning on where Pete and Peterson were physically before the shooting. He also took issue with Pete’s interviews and statements she made to police, on social media and during a TV sit-down with Gayle King that aired on CBS in April.

The exchanges between Mgdesyan and Pete were tense, with Mgdesyan digging into the details of the hours leading up to the shooting, including how much Pete must have drunk at Jenner’s house, why she insisted on leaving with Peterson and in which direction Pete was walking before Peterson told him to. claim. shot him.

Mgdesyan also spoke of an interview Pete had with Los Angeles Police Detective Ryan Stogner a few days after the incident, in which she told police she was initially unaware that she had been shot.

Pete replied that she was not comfortable talking to the police due to concerns about police violence against black people, but changed her mind when she saw Peterson and his management trying to ” get ahead” of history by planting fake news in blogs.

“I didn’t want it to be a big mess like it is now,” Pete testified of his reluctance to tell the truth early on.