Continuing the ongoing saga surrounding the 2020 shooting of rapper Megan Thee Stallion, incarcerated artist Tory Lanez is now claiming he took the fall to protect both Megan and her former best friend, Kelsey Harris.
Last week, Lanez’s legal team revealed that a new eyewitness had come forward, allegedly implicating Kelsey in the shooting. In the wake of that revelation, a series of text messages—reportedly from Tory Lanez himself—have surfaced, providing his version of events and his reasoning for staying silent during the trial.
In messages shared by media personality Jason Lee, Tory allegedly wrote:
“I took the rap for Kelsey, never wanted her to go to jail and I never wanted Megan to get hurt or anything, so in me stopping her from getting shot I got the raw deal. Crazy how life works.”
Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2023 for the shooting. Despite maintaining his innocence, the court found him guilty of all charges related to the incident. Still, Tory claims he held back vital information to shield both women:
“And to think they made me the poster boy for the unprotection of Black women when in all honesty I protected two Black women. One from getting shot and one from going to jail and never said nothing and ate the ten years for them to live…”
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He concluded with an emotional note about his late mother:
“I lost my mother at 11 years old. I couldn’t sleep with myself [if] I was the reason for taking a mother away from her kid, I just couldn’t do it.”
Whether this alleged new testimony and Tory’s latest claims will impact his case or public perception remains to be seen. But one thing is certain—the story is far from over.