50 Cent has expressed remorse for comments made about Megan Thee Stallion after Tory Lanez was convicted of shooting her last month (Picture: Getty)
50 Cent has revealed he intends to apologise to Megan Thee Stallion after he suggested she wasn’t being truthful about Tory Lanez, who last month was convicted of shooting the WAP rapper in July 2020.
Megan, real name Megan Pete, said the shooting occurred when she left a party in Los Angeles and resulted in her being wounded and needing surgery to remove bullet fragments from her feet.
Last month, 50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson, shared a since-deleted social media post that showed Megan morphing into former Empire actor Jussie Smollett.
Smollett was convicted of faking a 2019 hate crime attack and alongside a meme comparing Megan to the actor, 50 wrote: ‘Damn I’m confused all this s**t going around I don’t know what to think LOL.’
The 47-year-old hip-hop star has now explained that he was initially sceptical about Megan’s claims because he thought she’d lied about being intimate with Tory.
Speaking on Big Boy’s Neighborhood on Real 92.3 this week, 50 said: ‘I’m gonna apologise to Megan Thee Stallion. I said some things, and it was because when she was with Gayle [King] – [Gayle] said, “Were you intimate with Tory Lanez?”
50 said this week: ‘I’m gonna apologise to Megan Thee Stallion’ (Picture: YouTube/BigBoyTv)
Megan said the shooting occurred when she left a party in Los Angeles and resulted in her being wounded (Picture: Denise Truscello/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)
50 shared a since-deleted social media post that showed Megan morphing into former Empire actor Jussie Smollett (Picture: Twitter/50Cent)
‘And she said, “What?” and it was like, “No.” And I was like, “Ah, she lying.” At that point I knew she was lying, it wouldn’t be no reason for them to be around each other. From that, it felt like she was lying, to me.’
50 was referring to Megan’s interview with Gayle for CBS last April. In the interview, Megan explained how the shooting had changed her life for the worst and also broke down the events of the night in question.
Megan insisted she and Tory weren’t dating, telling Gayle: ‘We were really close. We were friends, we hung out like every day.’
However, despite 50 not being convinced by Megan’s claims she and Tory were just friends, he admitted a leaked phone conversation between Tory and Megan’s then-friend Kelsey Harris made him realise she hadn’t been lying.
Megan is yet to publicly comment on the verdict (Picture: SplashNews.com)
Tory made the call from his jail cell just hours after the shooting (Picture: AP)
The call, which Tory made from his jail cell just hours after the shooting, was a key piece of evidence in the case and although Tory – real name Daystar Peterson – didn’t outright confess to shooting Megan in the audio, he seemingly acknowledged something went down.
Tory said according to Rolling Stone: ‘I know she [Megan] probably never, ever gonna talk to me ever again.
‘But I just want you to know, bruh, I was just so f******g drunk. I ain’t even know what the f**k was going on, bruh, like deadass.
‘I’d never do some s**t like that… I was just so f*****g drunk. I just didn’t understand what the f**k was going on, bruh.
‘Regardless, that’s not going to make anything right and that’s not going to make my actions right.’
Of hearing the audio, 50 said: ‘That made me feel like, ‘Oh s***, now I know what happened; I’m sure that was probably what swayed people in court too.’
Megan is yet to publicly comment on the verdict, but while recently taking the stand in court she became emotional as she recalled the incident.
On the second day of the trial, she told the court through tears: ‘I’m having a really difficult time sitting up here telling my story and having to sit across [from] people who have made up lies about me and having to [sit] across from Tory.
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‘I try to be strong. I don’t like to look weak. I don’t want to give them the power that they’ve taken from me for the last three years,’ she continued, as reported People Magazine.
‘Not a day goes by without being called a liar. This whole thing is about who I was having sex with, not who shot me, and I don’t know why.’
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