Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words , set for release on Prime Video on Thursday, peels back the layers of the Houston rapper whose journey to stardom has been riddled with great success and much grief.
In 2019, the self-proclaimed H-town hottie lost her mother and grandmother in the same month and one year later she found herself at the center of both a criminal investigation and character assassination when Tory Lanez was charged with shooting her in the feet. At the premiere of the documentary in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Megan once again used her words to share the purpose behind the film, holding back tears as she took the stage inside the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
“I started to watch a lot of people dehumanize me, and a lot of people were trying to take control of my narrative and tell my story, so that’s why I even agreed to do the documentary in the first place,” Megan told the audience. “So let me just tell my truth and lay it out on the table because y’all don’t respect shit else but raw and honesty. I was trying to be a cookie-cutter celebrity for y’all but it didn’t work out. I am a real goddamn hot girl coach. So y’all are about to experience Megan Pete for the first time.”