‘Hot Girl Summer’ hitmaker Megan Thee Stallion found herself in hot water after news rang out that she was facing a lawsuit for allegedly sexually harassing and fat-shaming her former photographer.
Just as the story started making waves on the net, however, the GRAMMY-winning rapstress released a statement via her attorney denying the allegations.
Details inside.
In an explosive, 42-page lawsuit filed Tuesday (April 23), Stallion’s former videographer and photographer Emilio Garcia claimed he was forced to witness the ‘Big Ole Freak’ beauty have sex with another woman in June 2022.
Saying he “was embarrassed, mortified and offended throughout the whole ordeal,” and the next day the rapper allegedly told him to never “discuss what you saw,” Garcia also claims he suffered profound emotional distress from the “barrage of relentless sexual and fat-shaming comments” she made that created a hostile work environment.
Emilio says after he complained to Roc Nation about wages and bookings, he was fired and now “grapples with mounting anxiety, depression, and physical distress stemming from the toxic work environment, compounded by the trauma of unpaid work.”
Garcia is represented by the Ron Zambrano, the lawyer who once represented dancers who sued Lizzo for harassment and hostile work environment last year.
“[Megan Thee Stallion] just needs to pay our client what he’s due, own up to her behavior and quit this sort of sexual harassment and fat shaming conduct. Emilio should never have been put in a position of having to be in the vehicle with her while she had sex with another woman,” Zambrano said in a statement. “‘Inappropriate’ is putting it lightly. Exposing this behavior to employees is definitely illegal.”
Meg’s attorney wasted little time clapping back at the suit.
“[This is] an employment claim for money − with no sexual harassment claim filed and with salacious accusations to attempt to embarrass her,” he relayed.
Roc Nation nor Megan have directly responded to the news.