Megan Thee Stallion performs at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Aug. 13, 2023.Photo:Zuma / SplashNews.com
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Megan Thee Stallionappeared on stage for the first time sinceTory Lanezwassentenced to 10 years in prisonfor shooting her three years ago.
On Sunday, the rapper, 28, performed at the 2023 Outside Lands Music Festival at the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California.
For her performance, Megan donned a hot pink ensemble that featured a corseted bodysuit embroidered with diamond and pearl embellishments. Her red locks, meanwhile, were styled into curls.
Also on the festival line-up with the “Savage” singer wereKendrick Lamar,Lana Del Rey,Foo FightersandThe 1975.
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Megan Thee Stallion performs at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Aug. 13, 2023.Casey Flanigan/imageSPACE/Shutterstock
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Rapper Lanez, 31, was sentenced last week after being found guilty on all three felony counts for shooting Megan in the feet in July 2020.
He was found guilty after anine-day trialin December at the Los Angeles Superior Court, where he was convicted of assaulting Megan with a semi-automatic firearm, carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
The incident happened after a pool party atKylie Jenner’s Los Angeles home. Megan, her former assistant and ex-friendKelsey Harrisand Lanez had left the party in a Cadillac Escalade and ended up getting into an argument in the vehicle, which spilled out onto the sidewalk in the Hollywood Hills.
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Testifying in court last year, Megan — whose real name is Megan Pete — said she was “in shock” and “scared.”
“I hear a gun going off. I couldn’t believe he was shooting at me,” she said. “He was holding the gun, pointing it at me.”
On Thursday, Lanez maintained his innocence in hisfirst statementfollowing his sentencing.
He wrote onInstagram, “I have never let a hard time intimidate me. I will never let no jail time eliminate me. Regardless of how they try to spin my words, I have always maintained my innocence and I always will.”
The performer went on to say that he only “took responsibility for all verbal and intimate moments that I shared with the parties involved… That’s it.”
“In no way shape or form was I apologizing for the charges I’m being wrongly convicted of,” he continued in the statement. “I remain on the stance that I refuse to apologize for something that I did not do.”
“I’ve faced adversity my whole life and every time it looked like I would lose, I came out on top. This is nothing but another moment where my back is against the wall and I refuse to stop fighting till I come out victorious. Tough times don’t last, tough people do.”
According to theAssociated Press, Lanez, born Daystar Peterson, told the court he took “full responsibility” for what he did on the night of the incident.
source: people.com
