Megan Thee Stallion says not even a cell can stop her convicted shooter, Tory Lanez, from tormenting her.
The “Savage” rapper, born Megan Pete, on Tuesday filed a request for a new restraining order against Lanez, who is serving 10 years in state prison following his conviction on weapons charges stemming from a 2020 incident in which shot him in the feet. .
It's a “trauma” that Pete has been forced to relive, he said in a Tuesday filing reviewed by The Times, as his convicted shooter, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, continues his “campaign of harassment” despite being on the trail. bars.
Before his conviction, Peterson repeatedly violated the court's pre-trial “protection and gag orders” intended to ensure Pete's safety and well-being, according to the filing. One of those violations in 2021 cost him $60,000 bail.
Pete's filing alleged that he now harasses her with the help of “third-party online 'bloggers,' who [sic] Mr. Peterson uses to spread defamatory statements about Ms. Pete.” That undermines the criminal trial that imprisoned Peterson in the first place and has caused Pete “serious emotional distress,” according to the document.
A legal representative for Pete did not immediately respond Wednesday to the Times' request for additional comment.
Pete's petition cited Peterson's prison call records and social media posts of their peers to demonstrate an organized removal effort on their behalf.
Still, the Grammys' best new artist for 2021 has been unable to obtain “any formal protection against Mr. Peterson's attacks,” Pete's petition said, because the bar for a post-conviction criminal protection order is incredibly high. high.
“It is contradictory and completely illogical that Ms. Pete had protection through protective orders and gag orders issued against Mr. Peterson, while he was considered innocent, that is, before the conviction, but that such protections are no longer available for Ms. Pete, due to a mere technicality of the law, now that he has been convicted and proven guilty,” the document says.
The civil harassment restraining order was called Pete's “only recourse” to take care of herself while healing her emotional wounds.
Last year, the rapper said she that when the 2020 incident with Peterson became the talk of the internet, and even her musical peers expressed doubts about her story, she “started to fall into a depression.”
“I didn't feel like making music. I was in such a low place that I didn't even know what I wanted to rap about. I wondered if people cared anymore. There were times where I was literally backstage or in my hotel, crying my eyes out, and then I had to get Megan Pete together and be Megan Thee Stallion,” she told the outlet.
Similarly, in her recent Prime Video documentary “Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words,” she spoke about experiencing suicidal ideation and seeking mental health support just before the criminal trial that ended with Peterson's multiple convictions and incarceration, reported the Cut.
A hearing on the restraining order request is scheduled for Jan. 9.
