Megan Thee Stallion files restraining order against Tory Lanez over “psychological warfare”
Tory Lanez may be behind bars, but that allegedly isn’t stopping him from harassing Megan Thee Stallion. On December 17th, Megan reportedly filed a restraining order against Lanez, claiming he’s been using bloggers to get to her from prison.
After being found guilty of shooting Megan in the foot, Lanez (real name Daystar Peterson) was convicted in December 2022 of three felonies: assault with a semi-automatic firearm, having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. Then, in August 2023, he was sentenced to ten years in prison.
In the petition filed in Los Angeles Superior Court this week, Megan (real name Megan Pete) asked the judge to stop Lanez from using third parties to contact, harass and intimidate her.
“Even now, while behind bars, Mr Peterson shows no signs of stopping,” the petition said. “Despite being sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Ms Pete, Mr Peterson continues to subject her to repeated trauma and re-victimisation.”
According to TMZ, Megan claims Lanez hired a number of bloggers to spread defamatory comments about her. She says prison phone call logs prove a “conspiratorial relationship” between Lanez and a woman named Elizabeth Milagro Cooper. The filing also alleges that, during a call, Lanez’s father asked about payment to Cooper for harassing Megan.
“By consciously coordinating with [Megan’s] convicted assaulter simply to amplify [Lanez’s] disproven and baseless theories to help him seek retribution against [Megan]—the true victim of [Lanez’s] criminal acts—Defendant engaged in extreme and outrageous conduct that has caused, and continues to cause, [Megan] severe emotional distress,” the filing reads.
Sources close to TMZ claim Megan’s legal team has obtained financial records of $3,000 in payments from Lanez to Cooper between October 2020 and March 2022.
Megan alleges that Lanez’s continued “psychological warfare” has ruined her life and led to depression, admitting that she sometimes wishes Lanez “would have shot and killed me, if I would have known I was going to go through this torture.”
Lanez is currently incarcerated at California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, California. His lawyers are appealing the conviction after a judge rejected a motion for a new trial.