Tory Lanez’s father has revealed that his son has forgiven Megan Thee Stallion despite facing a lengthy prison sentence over allegations that he shot her.
Sonstar Peterson uploaded a video on Instagram on Thursday (January 12) addressing his son’s recent criminal trial, in which he was convicted of firing shots at the Houston Hottie and wounding her feet during a drunken dispute in July 2020.
It comes after Peterson caused a stir on the final day of the trial by expressing his anger at the jury’s verdict both inside and outside the Los Angeles courthouse, blasting JAY-Z — whose Roc Nation company manages Megan — in the process.
During the 40-minute social media sermon, Peterson said that both he and Tory, as well as other members of their family, forgave Megan a “long time ago” for reporting Tory to the police over the alleged shooting, for which he faces up to 22 years and eight months behind bars.
“This might come as a shock to many of you, but guess what?” he said. “Both my son, myself and others of our family have long decided that we are not going to hold any animosity against Megan Pete a.k.a. Megan Thee Stallion. We forgave that girl a long time ago. A long time ago.”
Peterson — a former pastor and ordained minister — went on to say that their decision stemmed from the knowledge that forgiveness is essential to one’s spiritual and physical wellbeing, and that harboring resentment can cause sickness and disease.
“We know that the principle of forgiveness is important in order to cleanse one’s heart, to cleanse one’s soul and to not be bound up with hatred,” he continued. “Hatred, esentment, bitterness — those things can actually diseases of the bones, it has been proven.
“And it can cause sickness in your body because you’re holding onto something that is negative against the real life force in your life.”
While it seems that he and Tory have let go of any animosity towards Megan, Peterson remained steadfast in his fight against what he referred to as “the machine.”
“Some will no doubt actually question: is he actually saying that Tory forgave Megan for all of what’s going on?” he added. “Yes, we have forgiven her. But what we will not back down from is the machine.”
Tory Lanez was found guilty on all three counts he was charged with on December 23. They included felony assault with a semiautomatic firearm, possession of a concealed, unregistered firearm and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
After the guilty verdict was handed down, Sonstar Peterson reportedly branded the court system “wicked” and called two of the prosecutors “evil” before being forcibly removed from the courtroom. Law & Crime reporter Meghann Cuniff called it a “crazy and downright scary scene.”
Peterson continued his angry tirade outside the courthouse, where he told reporters he had “witnessed the worst miscarriage of justice that this world has ever seen.”
He then read aloud a list of names that included Megan Thee Stallion’s attorney Alex Spiro, Roc Nation COO Desiree Perez, “and the whole wicked system of Roc Nation, including you, JAY-Z. You who say you rose from the gutter, but you have traded and bartered the souls of young men — and you’re still doing it.”
Tory Lanez was due to be sentenced on January 27, but that date has since been delayed to February 28 amid a major shakeup to the rapper’s legal team.
Earlier this month, the Toronto native replaced his defense attorney George Mgdesyan with David Kenner, who famously helped Snoop Dogg beat his 1993 murder case and also previously represented Suge Knight.
The change was made due to Lanez’s plan to appeal his conviction. “I don’t do appeals, so we had to get somebody on board to handle the appeal,” Mgdesyan told Rolling Stone’s Nancy Dillon.
While Tory has yet to address his potentially decades-long prison sentence, an alleged mugshot of the rapper went viral on social media earlier this week thanks to him flashing a carefree smile in the photo.
Forgiveness is not theirs to give. Accepting blame is, at a minimum. Reporting this without any critical notion is preposterous.
Why do you follow the herd
Why do you like fucking sheep?
What a joke. Your son shot Megan, and you have forgiven her? How about you work on your son and teach him to not shoot people. I haven’t forgiven you for being an idiot yet. I am still working on being a better me.
you’re the joke. you are looking at the end of jay z – none of us scared of camel face up here. you’re the fucking joke and you will see the punchline
Homey, it seems like you have an obsession with Jay-Z. How is this about that dude? Tory shot Megan, yet you are wish and hoping for the downfall of Jay-Z??? Dog, that is some unhealthy obsession sh!t. Seek therapy, lose the jealous nature within yourself.
dude jay z not gone skate over this. we hold him responsible for what happened to tory. full stop. then trying to clown our people with these memes and hashtags. it’s war. you shouldn’t have asked for these enemies because for jay z it’s everywhere. mandem is everywhere. and we know the score. these informants in entertainment time is done
Lmao omg this literally made me laugh, wow its unbelievable how delusional some people are, unfortunately this is probably the same type of person to go and commit a mass shooting at a school smh
mandem been tired of that whole Jay Z roc nation DJ Khaled circle trying to swagger jack black culture through aggressive appropriation of jamaican culture from time. now trying to claim mandem don’t respect women based on some corrupt police set up .jay z is a known infomant and now he want to pin labels on tory so we don’t accept it. fuck jay z. hands off our youth
Don’t smoke crack idiot. You should have quit once it had you pretending to be Jamaican. LOL
jay z is fucked
there is nothing Jamaican about Jay Z just remember that. It was Biggie that was Jamaican. Jay Z is just a cornball mutt from the projects. Corruption and betrayal put him where he is today. Look what he did to Dame. A man like that is headed for a fall. No one stays on top forever and he looks like a fucking clown with that stupid dread wig.
Must be Tory’s dad. Jay-Z is laughing at your clown family and bad parenting.
? Didn’t Jay shoot his own brother? A bunch of mouthy little kids in this chat huh
This website likes to post stories, videos, and pics of this loser so people view him in a better light. Post his mugshot, post a story about Meghan’s injuries, and the trauma he caused her. Tory is a coward who shoots women and blames everyone else but himself for his actions. The jury saw through his weak defense and lies, and for that he earned himself a stiff sentence and deportation.
How very big of this 5 ft man. It takes a lot to forgive someone that you shot and told lies about to the entire world.
It takes a lot to be the bigger man in a situation. Especially at 5’3. This man deserves credit for having it in him to forgive someone that he shot, mocked, and lied about.
I’m so glad he’s somehow forgiven her for being shot by him. Continue to blow us away Tory. Continue to blow us away.
Pause!
How in the hell is tory talking bout he forgives her??? He shot her!!!
Once you shoot somebody being a drunken idiot, then get convicted to doing so, it’s important for YOU to forgive THEM. The perpetrator forgiving the victim. SMH
it was torey who shot megan. i wonder who needs to forgive who then. torey’s father is gettingvthis whole thing wrong. your drunken son could have ended someone’s life and and spent the rest of his life in jail. i wonder what the conversation would have been then.
it was torey who shot megan. i wonder who needs to forgive who then. torey’s father is gettingvthis whole thing wrong. your drunken son could have ended someone’s life and and spent the rest of his life in jail. i wonder what the conversation would have been then.
He shot her and and forgiving her for the repercussions of HIS crime. Just like a Nigga. Never wrong for nothing and always playing victim.
Oh a former pastor ay? So what happened prosperity preacher boi? Not enough donations for that jet? FOH dude look like a fukin jihadi!!!!
Why do media outlets do a lazy job ? He is not from Toronto! He is from a suburb west of Toronto!!! Jheez Toronto doesn’t claim this goofy