Throughout the course of the trial and leading up to it, Lanez, a Canadian whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, adamantly denied the allegations against him and pleaded not guilty. He now faces more than 20 years in prison and potential deportation
Megan says Lanez told her, ‘Dance bitch’ before he started shooting at her.co-host Gayle King, Megan detailed the shooting publicly for the first time. She recounted that the argument started “because I was ready to go, and everybody else wasn’t ready to go,” calling it “normal friend stuff.”
When things escalated, Megan claimed she got out of the car, and that’s when the shooting started. “So I get out of the car, and it’s like everything happens so fast. And all I hear is this man screaming. And he said, ‘Dance, bitch.’ And he started shooting,” she said, through tears. “And I’m just like,Megan clarified that Lanez was “standing up over the window shooting” and said she was afraid to move too quickly to get away. “I don’t know if he could shoot me and kill me.
Megan went on to say that she felt “shame” about her initial reaction to the shooting, noting that she lied to the police in an effort to protect the people she thought were her friends, though “that’s not how they thought of me.” She confirmed that she and Harris, her former best friend who was also in the car that night, were no longer close.
Speaking of the press coverage of the shooting, Megan said she felt like “the villain” in the story. “I don’t know if people don’t take it seriously because I seem strong. I wonder if it’s because of the way I look,” she said. “Is it because I’m not light enough? Is it that I’m not white enough? Am I not the shape? The height? Because I’m not petite? Do I not seem like I’m worth being treated like a woman?”Lanez’s trial began last December.
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