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At Tory Lanez trial, Megan Thee Stallion's ex-best friend told two tales. What will the jury believe?

LOS ANGELES — The Kelsey Harris who spent hours on the stand in a Los Angeles courtroom this week had no idea who shot Megan Thee Stallion. She said she couldn't remember if the man accused of the crime, Canadian rapper Tory Lanez, had offered her money in exchange for her silence in court. She wouldn't even say definitively that Megan Thee Stallion had been shot, repeatedly noting that's what ...
Megan Thee Stallion, whose legal name is Megan Pete, makes her way from the Hall of Justice to the courthouse to testify in the trial of Rapper Tory Lanez for allegedly shooting her, on Dec. 13, 2022, in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES — The Kelsey Harris who spent hours on the stand in a Los Angeles courtroom this week had no idea who shot Megan Thee Stallion.

She said she couldn't remember if the man accused of the crime, Canadian rapper Tory Lanez, had offered her money in exchange for her silence in court. She wouldn't even say definitively that Megan Thee Stallion had been shot, repeatedly noting that's what "Megan's team" told her, even though there's no dispute that she sat next to the bloodied hit maker that night in an SUV.

The most important details of that July 2020 night were "a blur," Harris said in court this week, memories lost to an alcohol-induced fog caused by doing one too many shots at a Hollywood Hills party hosted by makeup mogul Kylie Jenner.

The Kelsey Harris who spoke to prosecutors for one hour and 20 minutes in September, however, had a much clearer memory.

"You start hearing

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