Megan Thee Stallion recently shared in court that she had suicidal thoughts following false claims in the media, particularly from gossip blogger Milagro “Gramz” Cooper.
According to ABC News, the Houston native filed a defamation lawsuit against Cooper in October 2024 for harassing her by consistently spreading fake news about her online regarding the 2020 shooting involving rapper Tory Lanez.
In 2022, a Los Angeles jury convicted Lanez of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, carrying a loaded unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. He’s currently serving a 10-year sentence at California Men’s Colony near San Luis Obispo, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Megan Thee Stallion said she ‘just wanted to die’ after dealing with an online smear campaign against her
As Blavity reported, Cooper filed a motion to dismiss the case in November 2024. In response, Florida Southern District Chief Judge Cecilia Altonaga denied that request, finding that the blogger was negligent.
According to The Grio, during her Nov. 20 testimony, Megan shared that the online smear campaign led by Cooper, which included fake AI-generated porn images, left her in mental anguish.
“There was a time that I genuinely didn’t care if I lived or died,” Megan told the court, according to The Grio. “I felt like no way I mattered. No way I should even be living. I don’t want to be here. I’m tired of waking up. I just wanted to die. I was so tired of being alive.”
The Grammy winner also said that Cooper helped create opportunities for people to bash her and not take her shooting seriously.
“She’s created a space for a lot of people to come speak negatively about me,” Megan said.
“I felt like nobody cared that I was shot,” she added. “I know everyone was making jokes about it.”
Megan made it clear, though, that despite feeling helpless at this point, she refused to give up.
“I’m not going to kill myself,” she said, “because I’m not going to give them what they’re looking for.”
Megan Thee Stallion’s former manager testified on her behalf
Per The Grio, Megan’s former manage,r Travis Farris, and Roc Nation executive Daniel Kinney also took the stand.
Farris testified that the online smear campaign pushed Megan’s mental health to a point where he arranged for her to enter a treatment facility that cost $240,000 a month.
On the other hand, Kinney said Cooper’s “ongoing campaign of harassment” blocked Megan from securing major deals with Activision/Call of Duty, Google Pixel, Just Eat’s Takeaway and the U.S. Women’s Soccer Federation.
Cooper testified that she never coordinated her coverage of Megan’s shooting with Lanez, saying her and Lanez’s conversations were limited to her efforts to book him as a guest on her channel.
She also acknowledged receiving money from Lanez’s father, Sonstar Peterson, which she described as gifts tied to her daughter’s birthdays and as payment for promoting his podcast on her platform.