Megan Thee Stallion reportedly sobbed on the witness stand Thursday as she described how a deepfake pornographic video of her, created without her consent and allegedly promoted online by blogger Milagro Gramz, caused her mental health to plummet.

“I know it’s not me, but to be in front of everybody else, and they have to watch it — it’s really embarrassing,” she testified in a federal courtroom in Miami, according to NBC News. Megan claimed Gramz, whose legal name is Milagro Cooper, knowingly amplified the reach of the fake video online.

“To this day, I feel a little, like, defeated,” Megan told the jury. “As no matter what, no matter if the video was fake or not … [Cooper] wanted it to be real.”

The Grammy-winning rapper addressed jurors on the fourth day of a civil trial for her defamation lawsuit against Cooper filed last year. Megan claims Cooper engaged in a “coordinated campaign” with musician Tory Lanez to harass and discredit her because Megan testified against Lanez at his criminal trial three years ago. During that trial in December 2022, Megan recounted for jurors how Lanez shot at her feet, wounding both, during a drunken rampage after a party at Kylie Jenner’s house in july 2020. lanez,whose real name is Daystar Peterson,was convicted of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

On the witness stand Thursday, Megan said Cooper’s alleged harassment of her, on various social media platforms, “created a space for a lot of people to come speak negatively about me,” according to ABC News. She said Cooper casting her as a liar and mentally unstable took a serious toll.

“I felt like nobody cared that I was shot,” Megan said. “I know everyone was making jokes about it.” she described feeling so despondent at one point, she questioned the value of her life.

“There was a time that I genuinely didn’t care if I lived or died,” she said, according to ABC News.“I felt like no way I mattered. No way I should even be living.I don’t want to be here. I’m tired of waking up.I just wanted to die. I was so tired of being alive.”

Megan, whose real name is Megan Pete, said her situation thankfully has improved. She was feeling “OK” on Thursday and said she hopes her testimony might help other women.“I’m not going to kill myself because I’m not going to give them what they’re looking for,” she reportedly testified.

Megan’s lawsuit did not allege that Cooper created the deepfake video. The initial complaint said it was unclear who the author was. Still, Cooper caused Megan severe emotional distress by “liking” the deepfake video on her @MobzWorld account on X, formerly Twitter, on June 8, 2024, and then urging her more than 100,000 followers across social media to check the “likes” section of her X account, were the video was viewable, the lawsuit said.

The next day, on June 9, 2024, Cooper allegedly shared a video with her 74,000 YouTube subscribers, addressing the X post

Megyn Cooper Testifies in Tory Lanez Trial, Admits to Receiving Payments

Megyn Cooper, a conservative commentator, testified in the trial of Tory Lanez, who was convicted of shooting Megan Thee Stallion. Cooper discussed a video she posted online telling followers to “go to my likes.” In the video,Cooper shared an image of Megan with a news chyron that read,”Is MTS A Professional Victim?”

Cooper testified earlier this week that she offered commentary about the 2020 shooting and 2022 trial without any influence from Lanez. She said she did speak with Lanez at least once,when she asked him to be a guest on her channel. She also admitted she received money from Lanez’s father, Sonstar Peterson, but said the payments were for “personal” matters, like her kids’ birthdays, or “promotional” work, ABC News reported.

Lanez is currently in custody in a California prison. Megan’s lawyers tried to question him three times, but he refused to answer questions, including how he met Cooper. Shortly before the trial started,he was found in contempt of court for his refusal to cooperate.