Megan Thee Stallion has shared a deeply personal new essay for Elle in which she addresses her assault trial against Tory Lanez for the “final time.”
In her essay, published on Tuesday, the Grammy winner reflects on the past three years since Lanez assaulted her with a firearm. Following his conviction last December, Megan says she wants to move on from the case, declaring that she’s “more than just [her] trauma.”
“I don’t want to call myself a victim,” the rapper writes in the opening paragraph of the essay. “As I reflect on the past three years, I view myself as a survivor, because I have truly survived the unimaginable. Not only did I survive being shot by someone I trusted and considered a close friend, but I overcame the public humiliation of having my name and reputation dragged through the mud by that individual for the entire world to see.”
