Megan Thee Stallion’s team is shutting down allegations that she harassed her former cameraman and ran a hostile work environment.
As we previously reported the shocking lawsuit alleges the rapper had sex with a woman riding in an SUV in Europe with two other passengers and her and the cameraman, Emilio Garcia. The lawsuit also alleges that the singer fat-shamed the cameraman, saying things to him such as “You don’t need to be eating” and “Spit your food out.” Not only did the lawsuit make harassment claims it also noted that Megan Thee Stallion failed to provide meal and rest breaks as required by law.
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It didn’t take long for Meg’s team to release a statement and shut down the shocking news. “This is an employment claim for money — with no sexual harassment claim filed and with salacious accusations to attempt to embarrass her,” Alex Spiro, Pete’s attorney, said Tuesday via her publicist. “We will deal with this in court.”
According to the court documents obtained by @nbc, Megan Thee Stallion’s former camera-man Emilio Garcia claims he was trapped inside a moving vehicle with the rapper while she engaged in sexual activities with another woman. According to the documents the incident took place around June 2022 when Garcia was tour with Meg and they were in Ibiza, Spain. The suit continues to allege that after a night out while riding in a SUV “suddenly Stallion and one other woman start[ed] having sex right beside Garcia,” the documents state. Garcia “could not get out of the car as it was both moving, and he was in the middle of nowhere in a foreign country,” the document continued.
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Garcia went on to claim that the incident made him feel uncomfortable. “I was kind of frozen, and I was shocked. At kind of just be the overall audacity to do this right, right beside me,” Garcia explained to NBC News. He also went on to say that he spoke to Megan Thee Stallion the next day and she told him “Don’t ever discuss what you saw” before she allegedly “berated and directed her fat-shaming comments towards Garcia, such as ‘Fat B-tch.’” Also allegedly telling him “you don’t need to be eating.” Emilio Garcia reportedly began working for Megan Thee Stallion in 2018 and left his other job in 2019 to work exclusively with the rapper. He remained in her employment until June 2023, according to the lawsuit.
“What I learned throughout the years is that, especially coming from an from an office environment, is you know, there’s no HR department in the entertainment business,” Garcia told NBC News in an interview. “So if you don’t know that you’re being done wrong, you don’t really know how to advocate for yourself until you start asking maybe you start asking your peers who have representation, they have agents, they have management, they have attorney. So I just really just want to encourage people to advocate for themselves.”
“Megan 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,” Ron Zambrano, an attorney for Garcia, said in a statement to NBC News. “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. ‘Inappropriate’ is putting it lightly. Exposing this behavior to employees is definitely illegal.”
