Megan Thee Stallion has been granted a five-year restraining order in opposition to incarcerated rapper Tory Lanez, with an expiration date of Jan. 9, 2030.
Megan claims Lanez (actual title Daystar Peterson) has been harassing her from behind bars as he serves a 10-year sentence stemming from a July 2020 incident the place he shot at her ft. Choose Richard Bloom confirmed the order on Thursday, writing that Megan had “sustained burden of proof” to grant the movement.
Megan’s request for a restraining order described Lanez as a “violent and harmful prison” with an “established sample of habits [demonstrating] the explanations this civil harassment restraining order is important to guard Ms. Pete and her wellbeing.” Earlier than this submitting, Megan underneath an order that was solely in impact from 2020 by means of 2023.
Megan’s request for a restraining order additionally accused Lanez of using third-party “bloggers” to defame her whereas he’s in jail.
In keeping with court docket reporter Meghann Cuniff, who was current within the Los Angeles courtroom throughout Thursday’s listening to, Megan testified by way of video name and described her as being in an emotional state. Cuniff stated Megan was scared of what may occur to her after Lanez’s launch. Megan is quoted saying, “I really feel like possibly he’ll shoot me once more, and possibly this time I gained’t make it.”
Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in jail in Dec. 2022 on three felony counts. Megan recounted the trauma of the incident in her Prime Video documentary “Megan Thee Stallion: Her Phrases,” which launched in late October.
“I actually thought that after he bought sentenced and as soon as he went off to jail, I used to be going be a brand new lady and I believed I used to be going to be nice and I may simply go be the Megan Thee Stallion I at all times wished to be,” she stated within the doc. “No. I nonetheless, on daily basis, need to take care of folks mad at me as a result of I stated what occurred to me.”