Why the Internet Isn’t Buying Tory Lanez’s Prison Stabbing Story

After reportedly being stabbed 14 times, Tory Lanez is reportedly in "good spirits," but folks say something isn't adding up.

After a reported attack at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, where Tory Lanez is serving a ten year sentence for shooting Megan Thee Stallion, heโ€™s currently in โ€œgood spiritsโ€ while healing from over a dozen stab wounds. But some folks arenโ€™t buying it.

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Lanez, born Daystar Peterson, was attacked at a housing unit around 7:20 a.m. on Monday (May 12), according to reports. Lanez received medical aid at the medium- and maximum-security facility after he was reportedly stabbed in his back and face. But some fans online are wondering if that story really is true or not.

The day after, the โ€œSay Itโ€ rapperโ€™s team shared a statement on his verified Instagram account, detailing how he was also stabbed four times in his torso and twice in โ€œthe back of the head.โ€

โ€œBoth of his lungs collapsed, and he was placed on a breathing apparatus. He is now breathing on his own,โ€ the statement added. โ€œDespite being in pain, he is talking normally, in good spirits, and deeply thankful to God that he is pulling through.โ€ The statement, which has over 676,000 likes and 46,000 comments, concluded with the Canadian rapper thanking โ€œeveryone for their continued prayers and support.โ€

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But some folks online just arenโ€™t buying the narrative. One X user asked, โ€œwait, you can survive being stabbed in the head?,โ€ while another wrote, โ€œbet he did it for the publicity, tbh.โ€

A third X user questioned: โ€œWas Tory Lanez actually stabbed? I mean, we gotta hear both sides right?โ€

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Others speculated that โ€œheโ€™s lying,โ€ and how they โ€œneed to see proof. And even then how we know he didnโ€™t stab himself.โ€ Someone else suspected he โ€œstabbed himselfโ€ to garner โ€œsympathy for streamsโ€ because โ€œhis last album floppedโ€ and that he really wasnโ€™t stabbed, but asked, โ€œHow do we know he didnโ€™t fall on a piece of glass?โ€

The latter was a not-so-subtle dig at what many online claimed about Megan Thee Stallion during the shooting incident in July 2020, that she actually wasnโ€™t shot, but stepped on glass.

โ€œAs a heart transplant recipient, a week after my surgery, one of my lungs collapsed. I was talking, and I wasnโ€™t intubated or on oxygen. With that personal experience, I still donโ€™t believe Tory Lanez lying leprechaun ass,โ€ one user suspected.

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Another used replied to the statement on X, because she has โ€œtoo much Trauma ICU experience & have taken care of countless stabbing victims to let this slide; You get stabbed 14 times, twice being in the head AND bilateral pneumos, YOURE NOT GETTING EXTUBATED AND WILL HAVE MULTIPLE TRIPS TO THE OR!โ€

Although others celebrated his injuries, writing how โ€œits gonna be a good weekโ€ because he was stabbed, and a meme โ€œliking every tweet celebrating tory lanez getting stabbed in prison,โ€ others took a more sympathetic route.

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โ€œTory I love you Iโ€™m so glad you are going to be ok,โ€ one user wrote, while another person added: โ€œThe fact that people are happy about that need to self-reflect and go see an exorcist to expal those demons living in them!!!โ€ Another X user said, โ€œall these weird ass b*****s wishing death on Tory Lanez.. yall are DISGUSTING.โ€

Lanez was convicted of three felonies in December 2022: Assault with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.

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