Wednesday, January 15, 2025 - American rapper, Megan Thee Stallion has been granted a five-year restraining order against Canadian artist Tory Lanez, who is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence for assaulting her back in 2020.
The ruling comes a month after her legal team informed the
court about Lanez's continued "campaign of harassment" from
behind bars.
Addressing an LA courtroom via video on Thursday, Megan Thee
Stallion reportedly detailed how she continues to suffer anxiety from the
attack which saw Lanez fire five bullets from a semiautomatic weapon and wound
both her feet, and that this has been made worse by harassment on social media
that has been encouraged by Lanez.
“I haven’t been at peace since I been shot, and I’m just
trying to be un-harassed, not only by the person who shot me, but by the people
he’s been paying to continue to harass me,” the three-time Grammy Award winner
shared in a tearful testimony, according to Rolling Stone’s Nancy Dillon.
“I probably won’t ever have my own peace about the
situation, but I just really want the harassment from the person who shot me to
stop.”
“I feel like when he gets out of jail, it’s going to be
worse. I feel like maybe he’ll shoot me again, and maybe this time, I won’t
make it,” she said, according to Dillon.
“No matter how many people tell me I have to get past it, it
just seems like I have to relive it every day. I’m not good in social
situations anymore because I think everybody hates me at this point because of
everything that he’s done and said about me after the shooting.”
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Richard Bloom have
agreed with Megan’s testimony, stating that “with a violent act like that,
there’s a ripple effect that continues on. Ms. Pete’s testimony is that the
ripple effect has been significant.”
The order states that Lanez must stay at least 100 yards
away from Megan, and refrain from harassing, intimidating or threatening her in
any way until at least January 9, 2030.
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