Iggy Azalea Clarifies Her Letter of Support for Tory Lanez

Iggy Azalea tried to set the report straight after followers questioned why she wrote a letter of assist for Tory Lanez forward of his capturing trial.

Shortly after her assertion was addressed in court docket on Monday, August 7, Azalea, 33, claimed that she hasn’t “been in contact” with Lanez, 31, for months. “I’ve no motive to be, however I do want him properly,” she tweeted in response to a social media consumer asking why the letter was “an enormous deal.”

“I don’t ‘assist’ anybody,” she continued. “The entire thing is filled with oddities. My letter by no means talked about something in regard to what occurred that night time.”

Azalea went on to notice that she thought her letter “was for a decide solely” and wouldn’t be learn by the general public. “I’m not in assist of throwing away [anyone’s] life if we can provide affordable punishments which can be rehabilitative as a substitute. I assist jail reform. Interval,” she wrote. “I used to be requested to write down about my real expertise and the kind of punishment I believe he deserves: I did. It’s probably not that attention-grabbing however I perceive why it’s being sensationalized.”

Lanez is presently awaiting sentencing for capturing Megan Thee Stallion in July 2020. In December 2022, a jury discovered Lanez — whose actual title is Daystar Peterson — responsible of three felonies: assault with a semiautomatic firearm, having a loaded and unregistered firearm in a car and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.

Megan, 28, was not in court docket for the sentencing listening to on Monday, however she requested the decide to impose a stiff sentence on Lanez in a written assertion learn aloud by Los Angeles County Deputy District Lawyer Kathy Ta.

“Since I used to be viciously shot by the defendant, I’ve not skilled a single day of peace,” Megan wrote, including that she didn’t need to converse in individual as a result of she “merely couldn’t convey [herself] to be in a room with Tory once more.”

Azalea, in the meantime, was one in all 76 individuals who wrote letters asking the decide to contemplate a lesser sentence for Lanez. In keeping with The Washington Submit, Azalea requested the decide to ship a punishment that was “transformative, not life-destroying.”

Prosecutors have requested the decide to condemn Lanez to 13 years in jail. His attorneys, in the meantime, have argued that he ought to solely get probation and be launched from jail so he can enroll in a residential substance abuse program. Lanez’s attorneys have stated they plan to attraction his conviction.

Lanez and his authorized crew are set to return to the courtroom on Tuesday, August 8.