Megan Thee Stallion says she navigated “darkish instances” after being shot by Tory Lanez in 2020, providing new perception this week into her restoration from the assault.
“As a Black girl, as a darker Black girl, I additionally really feel like individuals anticipate me to take the punches, take the beating, take the lashings, and deal with it with grace,” Stallion informed Ladies’s Well being. “However I’m human.”
In December 2022, Lanez was convicted of three felonies for taking pictures Megan, together with assault with a semiautomatic firearm that left the hip-hop star with bullet fragments in her ft. Throughout the trial, Megan confronted backlash from followers and fellow artists who questioned the validity of her model of the story.
“Lots of people didn’t deal with me like I used to be human for a very long time,” Stallion recalled of the vitriol. “I really feel like everyone was at all times used to me being the enjoyable and blissful occasion lady. I watched individuals construct me up, tear me down, and be confused about their expectations of me.”
The backlash resulted in extreme despair for the singer, and he or she struggled to return to music.
“Earlier than I went onstage, I’d be crying half the time as a result of I didn’t need to [perform], however I additionally didn’t need to upset my followers,” Megan stated. “I didn’t need to get [out] from underneath the covers. I stayed in my room. I’d not flip the lights on. I had blackout curtains. I didn’t need to see the solar. I knew I wasn’t myself. It took me some time to acknowledge that I used to be depressed. However as soon as I began speaking to a therapist, I used to be in a position to be truthful with myself.”
Megan will now quickly launch her (nonetheless unnamed) third album and embark on her Sizzling Woman Summer season tour later this 12 months. In January, she informed Good Morning America that “I really feel like I’ve by no means been in a position to be exterior doing my very own factor in the course of the summer time, since like 2019, so that is gonna be the primary time I drop an album on time for the summer time. I do need to give the hotties the Megan Thee Stallion expertise.”