00:00 New disturbing details emerge about the shooting of the century.
00:04 Megan Thee Stallion.
00:04 Megan Thee Stallion.
00:05 The hottest it girl in female hip-hop.
00:08 She was scared.
00:10 She'd just gotten shot.
00:14 I just want to call my mama and be like, "What do I do?"
00:17 When Megan was shot, she needed support.
00:21 So why did the world turn against her?
00:24 The aftermath of the shooting was worse than the shooting itself.
00:28 Kid Dragon and s***.
00:29 There are still many people that don't even believe you were shot.
00:32 Drake suggesting she lied.
00:34 People like 50 Cent, she lied.
00:36 It just got worse and worse and worse.
00:38 People wished death on her.
00:39 Did Megan send an innocent man to jail?
00:43 Rapper Tory Lanez has been found guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion.
00:46 This guy's innocent.
00:47 No fingerprints, not one.
00:49 There's no proof that Tory Lanez touched that firearm.
00:52 People don't know what to believe.
00:54 What happened?
00:55 Tory's people were putting out a narrative that wasn't true.
00:59 New secret emails have been uncovered.
01:02 The case was perfectly clear.
01:04 Tory and his team were the ones spreading lies.
01:06 I've always supported you and I'll always support you.
01:09 This is how he got every man in a position of power to take his side.
01:13 All of a sudden, she's the villain and he's the victim?
01:17 911 Emergency, Alberta 394.
01:20 Yeah, we just have gunshots next to my house.
01:23 Somebody's screaming outside.
01:25 Do you hear a male or a female voice?
01:27 Someone might be shot.
01:29 He said, "Dance, b****."
01:33 And he started shooting.
01:34 I was really scared because I had never been shot at before.
01:39 I didn't want to move too quick if I take the wrong step.
01:44 I don't know if he could shoot me and kill me.
01:47 I look down at my feet and I'm like, "Oh my God."
01:54 Like, I'm really bleeding.
01:56 Like, I can't believe he shot me.
02:00 The police are definitely very much shoot first, ask questions after.
02:06 What happened?
02:07 I didn't want to see anybody die.
02:11 So I just said, "I stepped on glass."
02:14 But this would come back to haunt Meg.
02:24 In a way she could have never expected.
02:27 There was this narrative going around that she didn't get shot.
02:30 50 Cent even posted a very nasty meme.
02:34 Drake and his new track are suggesting she lied about getting shot by Tory Lanez.
02:39 This b**** lied about getting shot, but she's still a stallion.
02:42 Meg came forward, hoping to set the record straight.
02:45 But she wasn't telling the whole truth.
02:47 I see a lot of people making up stories.
02:50 And I was shot in both of my feet.
02:54 And I had to get surgery.
02:56 And thank God that the bullets didn't touch bones.
03:01 They didn't break tendons.
03:03 Meg didn't say who shot her, but the media started to piece it together.
03:09 Tory Lanez arrested on gun charge ends night out with Meg the stallion.
03:14 Tory Lanez allegedly shot Meg and the stallion while she was trying to leave.
03:18 We were friends. We hung out like every day.
03:21 Live shots.
03:21 Shot o'clock, shot o'clock.
03:23 To the stallion.
03:24 They developed a friendship.
03:27 They would hook up here and there.
03:28 But we're really close.
03:30 Meg protected Tory, but was blindsided when Tory Lanez released his surprise album, Daystar.
03:39 Nearly every track on it is about Megan and the incident.
03:43 Megan people trying to frame me for a shoe in my...
03:45 He's maniacally chopping up horse legs in what's pretty obvious a reference to Megan.
03:52 Tory Lanez tweeted, "Good s*** got me. F*** two best friends and I got caught.
03:57 It's sick how you spun it though."
03:59 Meg watched as the world ignored her pain
04:02 and focused on learning the truth about her relationship with Tory.
04:06 What was the nature of your relationship with Tory Lanez?
04:08 Because he has led people to believe that it was sexual.
04:15 I didn't have a sexual relationship with Tory.
04:18 She lying.
04:19 You're being dishonest about one thing.
04:21 It makes it seem like you're being dishonest about a bunch of other things.
04:24 Meg tried to fight back and finally revealed who her shooter was.
04:28 Since y'all f***ing worry about it, yes Tory shot me.
04:34 You shot me. Stop lying.
04:36 And y'all on the internet talking about, "Oh, you ain't get shot. Oh, we f***ed you this. Oh, free Tory."
04:40 I didn't have to spare that s*** but I did.
04:43 And I'm done.
04:44 Ask them why they not saying nothing.
04:46 But then Tory finally did say something.
04:49 It's falsified information.
04:52 Nobody has ever said she got shot.
04:54 You know, the police report at this point, nothing is saying that she got shot.
04:57 She just says the narrative that whatever came out of me being cut by glass is not true.
05:01 I was shot in my feet.
05:02 Some people are like, "Hold on. How you get shot in your foot and it don't hit no bones or tenons?"
05:07 There's like 30 bones in your feet and like 100 tenons.
05:10 She knew she had to do certain sympathetic things, I guess, to push the narrative.
05:15 She lost both her parents.
05:16 When you lose a parent, you can be highly susceptible to people around you
05:22 that are giving you parental guidance and you go with it.
05:25 Tory used Meg's biggest heartbreak to make the world doubt her.
05:30 I had lost my mom.
05:32 My mom is my biggest inspiration.
05:34 She was a rapper, right?
05:35 Yes. She had a nine-to-five job.
05:36 But on her days off, she'll be at the studio and she'll take me to the studio
05:40 thinking I'm in the lobby doing coloring books and stuff.
05:42 And I'm at the door really listening.
05:44 And then one day I just came to her and I was like, "I can rap."
05:46 She was like, "No, you can't."
05:48 And I was like, "Yes, I can."
05:49 She was my number one supporter.
05:51 She was my manager.
05:52 And then it was just over so quick.
05:54 She like left instructions within five minutes.
06:00 She said, "Don't stop."
06:02 So then I just took that literally.
06:04 Without her mom's guidance, Meg threw herself into her music.
06:10 I wanted to make her proud.
06:11 And I work through my emotions.
06:13 When my schedule gets really full, I'm probably going through something
06:17 because I want to keep my mind busy.
06:20 Usually I write music and I'm like, "Okay, I'm sad, but I'll write body."
06:23 I'm upset.
06:24 Okay, I'm writing freak nasty.
06:26 I write songs about how I want to feel.
06:28 This very public and dynamic sexual appetite in her performance
06:32 and all of that combined to make her someone certainly not vulnerable.
06:37 Now you're sitting amongst Jenner's and Cardi B.
06:41 And so that now put Megan Thee Stallion in a place where she was a megastar.
06:46 Biggest, if not the biggest hip hop artist in the world.
06:48 And Tory, there is no comparison here really as far as relevance.
06:52 And when Meg met rapper Tory Lanez, she thought he would understand her pain.
06:58 When my mom passed, I was looking for some type of family.
07:03 And his mom passed too.
07:05 So when I felt like we were bonding over that.
07:08 She lost both her parents and I do sympathize with that.
07:11 But Tory dealt with losing his mom differently.
07:14 I was a very rebellious child.
07:16 Very, very super rebellious.
07:18 From age 14, I'm just fighting.
07:20 Meg never thought Tory would turn his violence on her.
07:24 She knows what happened.
07:26 I know what happened.
07:27 And we know that what you're saying and the alleged things
07:30 and the alleged accusations are not true.
07:32 Tory Lanez has had hints of violence in the past.
07:34 He has pulled up on Travis Scott before.
07:38 Attacking reality TV stars.
07:41 So this is not something that's out of the normal for Tory Lanez's character.
07:46 Megan Thee Stallion accused of faking injury after pictured without foot bandage.
07:52 Fans take sides and most of them seem to be defending Tory.
07:56 Megan was crucified online.
07:58 People wished death on her.
08:00 Even though she's the one who's allegedly been shot.
08:02 I wish he would have just shot and killed me if I knew I was going to have to go through this torture.
08:07 This has messed up my whole life.
08:10 I don't even want to be on this earth no more.
08:12 With no one to turn to for guidance, Meg didn't know how to keep going.
08:18 I feel crazy.
08:20 I'm sad.
08:22 I just want to pick up the phone and call my mom and be like, what do I do?
08:26 It's too much.
08:29 When I would do something good, my mama could say good job.
08:34 And she was just so cool and I just trusted her so much and her opinion just meant so much to me.
08:42 But now when I do sh*t, it's like...
08:45 I don't know if I'm doing that good of a job.
08:54 In her darkest moment, Meg realized what her mom's final message to her really meant.
09:00 I really realized that my mama was really driving the car for a long time.
09:04 You gotta take care of you, because who else is going to take care of you?
09:08 I know how to keep going because my mama would have wanted me to keep going.
09:11 She decided to go up against Tory one last time.
09:16 Megan T. Stallion takes Tory Lanez to court.
09:19 Tory Lanez pleaded not guilty to assault and weapons charges related to the shooting.
09:24 This is the biggest case since OJ.
09:26 What do you say to people that still don't believe that you were actually shot?
09:29 I don't think any of this is for them.
09:32 Like, it's for me.
09:34 Like, I know this happened to me.
09:35 Rapper Megan T. Stallion arrived at a Los Angeles courthouse this morning
09:40 where she testified about what she says happened on the night of July 12th, 2020.
09:44 You're at a party at Kylie Jenner's house.
09:51 We were just hanging out and I was ready to go.
09:55 So you guys end up in a car.
09:57 You, Tory Lanez, your friend at the time, Kelsey, and his driver.
10:01 There was an argument and you get out of the car.
10:03 It's getting worse and I don't want to be in this car no more.
10:05 Because I see it's getting crazy.
10:08 So I get out the car and it's like everything happens so fast.
10:12 And all I hear is this man screaming.
10:16 He said, "Dance, b****."
10:18 And he started shooting.
10:20 I'm bleeding.
10:21 I've been shot.
10:23 He's apologizing.
10:24 He's like, "I'm so sorry.
10:26 Please don't tell nobody.
10:28 I'll give y'all a million dollars if y'all don't say nothing."
10:31 And I'm like, "What are you talking about?
10:33 Like, what are you offering me money right now?
10:36 Help me.
10:36 If you're sorry, just help me."
10:39 Somebody had already called the police and it was like so many of them.
10:42 It was a helicopter.
10:43 Something bad is about to happen.
10:45 The George Floyd incident had just happened.
10:48 My first reaction still was to try to save us.
10:52 Like, I didn't want to see anybody die.
10:56 I was trying to protect all of us.
11:02 There is a medical report that says that you have been shot.
11:06 To this day, you still have bullet fragments in your foot.
11:09 There's still bullet fragments in my feet.
11:11 But that wasn't the only thing she confessed.
11:19 You lied on national TV.
11:21 He said you lied about having an intimate relationship with Tori.
11:25 She said yes.
11:26 I was ashamed that someone I shared my body with could cause me so much pain.
11:30 But while Meg had been trying to protect Tori,
11:34 in court it was revealed the extreme lengths he went to to cause her pain.
11:38 Tori's people were putting out a narrative on social media about what happened that wasn't true.
11:44 Tori's team reached out to media pretending to be a representative of Meg's record label
11:49 in an attempt to quote campaign press, unquote, on his behalf.
11:52 For years, my attacker laughed and joked about my trauma.
11:56 For years, my attacker peddled false narratives about what happened on the night of July 12, 2020.
12:02 For years, my attacker tried to leverage social media to take away my power.
12:07 And there was one piece of evidence that changed everything.
12:12 This is a free call from...
12:13 Tori.
12:14 An inmate at LAPD jail.
12:18 Meg is in the hospital, so I'm outside the hospital.
12:21 I know she probably never ever gonna talk to me ever again, but I just want you to know
12:26 I was just so fucking drunk and I didn't even know what the fuck was going on.
12:30 I never do some shit like that.
12:32 She gave me heart.
12:33 What happened happened already, but I can't take it back.
12:36 Tell me, tell me what hospital she's in.
12:39 What hospital is she in?
12:41 And after three hours, the jury reached their verdict.
12:45 Tori was sentenced to 10 years in prison for firing a gun at Meg.
12:48 I'm gonna apologize to Meg this time.
12:51 When I heard the phone conversation?
12:52 Yeah.
12:53 That made me feel like a f***.
12:57 Now I know what happened.
12:58 This case is becoming a symbol of how our society treats women,
13:02 particularly black women and abuse survivors.
13:07 I don't want to call myself a victim.
13:09 As I reflect on the past three years, I view myself as a survivor.
13:13 Not only did I survive being shot by someone I considered to be a close friend,
13:18 but I overcame the public humiliation of having my name and reputation dragged through the mud.
13:23 Although Meg had proved to the world that she was a true survivor,
13:28 there was still one more thing she needed to face.
13:31 I kind of wanted to talk about everything that's been happening to me since my mom passed.
13:35 Like I never really dealt with it.
13:37 I go through so much and I feel like I just always keep it inside and I always just
13:41 just keep working through it.
13:42 But now I'm kind of feeling like, dang, I have to deal with this.
13:45 This is the first time I've like written music about how I like actually feel and not how I want to feel.
13:49 Meg was able to keep her final promise to her mom.
13:53 I always just have to like keep her words in the back of my head like to keep me going.
13:58 Nobody can make me not speak when it's something that I just really feel in my heart and my gut is right.
14:05 Even when it seems like everybody is against what you're saying, if you really believe in it,
14:10 then what it...
14:11 Meg has now become a powerful symbol for people that are victims of violence.
14:15 They're afraid to come forward.
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