Megan Thee Stallion has bullet fragments in feet from 2020 shooting

LOS ANGELES • American rapper Megan Thee Stallion has revealed that she is living with bullet fragments in her feet after an alleged shooting in 2020.

She said that she and Canadian rapper Tory Lanez got into an argument after a party in July 2020 and he had allegedly opened fire at her feet while shouting at her to dance.

She initially told the police she had stepped on broken glass to protect Lanez, 29, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, but later amended her statement.

He was charged with a felony count of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and a felony count of carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and for personal use of a firearm in October 2020.

He has pleaded not guilty and many tracks on his 2020 album Daystar say he is being framed.

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine for its July issue, Megan Thee Stallion, who appears on the cover, said: "What nobody knows is, I had to get the surgery the same night (as the alleged incident)."

The 27-year-old, whose real name is Megan Jovon Ruth Pete, said she was in hospital for about four days.

"Both of my legs (were) wrapped up. I could not walk. I still have bullet fragments in my feet right now. I was very scared that I was not able to be Megan Thee Stallion no more," she said.

Lanez is set to go to trial in September and faces 23 years in prison if convicted.

Megan Thee Stallion said: "I want him to go to jail. I want him to go under the jail."