In a bombshell revelation from her just-released documentary entitled Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Own Words, the rapper confessed to a past sexual relationship with Tory Lanez, despite what she had previously shared with Gayle King in a high-profile interview and during the trial over Lanez’s 2020 shooting. In those, Megan denied any kind of sexual relations with Lanez, which has added new ammunition to arguments from Lanez’s legal team as they remain opposed to his recent conviction.
The new admission has wasted no time being capitalized on by Lanez’s defense, which claims the inconsistency undermines Megan’s credibility as a witness. Lanez’s lawyer, Ceasar McDowell had called Megan’s initial lie about their relationship into question, making her an unreliable witness. “The fact that Megan lied about her sexual relationship with Tory obviously makes her an unreliable witness,” he said to TMZ. “If somebody lies in front of millions of people then obviously you can’t take what they say the other times either.
That move has touched off an immense debate among legal experts and the public at large, most speculating what this could mean for Lanez’s appeal efforts. He was then sentenced to 10 years in prison after he was convicted of assault with a semiautomatic handgun, possession of an unregistered firearm, and gross negligence in the discharge of a weapon.
The charges arise from an incident in 2020, where Lanez is said to have shots at Megan in the foot after some heavy argument that escalated during a car ride.
The argument was reportedly over personal matters rather than work-oriented problems; some even suggested a love triangle dynamic that set up the emotional clash. Megan’s admission follows an in-court testimony that she fabricated the false narrative initially in order to save face with the public and not be at fault to her then-boyfriend, rapper Pardison Fontaine. During the trial, Megan described how this incident has affected her personal life and demanded scrutiny into her intimate past. She elaborated, “I feel disgusting, I feel dirty, my own partner is ashamed,” as she remembered how it affected her relationship. her As this new information about their past relations came into light, the legal experts said that it did not change the original evidence on which Lanez was convicted.
The evidence presented at the trial in question tended to centre around the actual shooting itself, with testimony on behalf of a host of eyewitnesses and forensic evidence at the scene of the crime that ultimately corroborated the version of events that Megan put forward. Evidently, though, this is a discrepancy sure to be seized on by lawyers for Lanez as they file post-trial appeals aimed at undermining the credibility of Megan. Megan might regard her plea as some kind of personal effort at setting the record straight amidst the much attention this case has received. She speaks of the toll this trial and the incident continue to take on her career and personal life, emotionally and reputationally, in her documentary. That documentary focused a spotlight on the case anew-the public debate around the high-profile incident and its personalities was re-ignited.
