Hip-hop producer Metro Boomin testified in his civil rape case on wednesday, stating he had two consensual encounters with his accuser in 2016, consistently used a condom, and eagerly awaited the possibility to share his side of the story.

“Were you wrongly accused?” his lawyer, Lawrence Hinkle, asked.”Absolutely. I’ve been thinking about this day for a year,” the producer, Leland T. Wayne, responded. He called the accusations made by plaintiff Vanessa LeMaistre “preposterous,” alleging she claimed he raped her in a hotel after giving her a drink that caused her to “black out.”

“I really don’t know where to start. This is crazy. I can’t even believe I’m up hear doing this right now,” he said. “For her to accuse me of something like this, its something I could never fathom. I can’t even say what I think should happen to people who rape people.” Wayne testified that his mother was a victim of domestic abuse and believes sexual abusers “should be tortured and killed.”

He firmly denied the allegations, stating, “Absolutely not,” when asked if he ever sexually assaulted LeMaistre, and reiterating, “No way in the world” minutes later.

Young Thug, a fellow Atlanta-based artist, was present in the courtroom gallery to support Metro Boomin, stating, “He’s a longtime friend.”

Earlier in the day, LeMaistre completed her testimony, telling jurors she was grieving the recent loss of her newborn son when she visited Wayne at a Los Angeles recording studio.

LeMaistre Testimony Details Allegations and Plans

“When should I hit back metro?” she wrote in the journal. “Will I sleep with him again?” Then switching to Chrisie’s voice, she wrote, “Yes, and it will be beautiful, great, amazing.” Asked what she meant by “again,” LeMaistre said “technically” she already had slept with Wayne, but “the conditions were rape.”

Sanders then turned to notes LeMaistre wrote during a 2024 trip to Peru, where she engaged in an extended “Ayahuasca ceremony,” a spiritual ritual involving the ingestion of a psychoactive plant used by indigenous cultures in the amazon. In the notes titled “Plan Ayahuasca Gave Me,” LeMaistre wrote that she intended to “blow the whistle on Metro Boomin.” She also wrote that she planned to contact the law firm that singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura used to sue music mogul Sean Combs, and further planned to publish her “date rape” allegations in a post on social media. “We’re asking for 3.4 million to 3.7 million,” she wrote in her sometimes admittedly illegible handwriting.

“that was the number given to me,” Le Maistre testified about the amounts. Asked if she meant that the numbers were “given” to her during the Ayahuasca ceremony, she said, “Correct.”

With eight jurors listening intently, LeMaistre said that when she first heard the Wayne-produced song “Rap Saved Me” in 2017, she believed the lyrics were about her. In the chorus, artists 21 Savage and Offset rap, “She took a Xanny, then she fainted. I’m from the gutter, ain’t no changing. From the gutter, rap saved me. She drive me crazy, have my baby.”

LeMaistre also testified that she found out she was pregnant after visiting a Planned Parenthood in late 2016. As Sanders walked her through her medical records from Planned Parenthood, he showed jurors forms listed her last menstrual cycle had been on Oct. 1,2016,and her “most recent unprotected sexual intercourse” as having been on Oct. 13, 2016. She denied experiencing…