Megan Thee Stallion accused of harassment & creating a hostile work environment in lawsuit

Emilio Garcia, who says he worked as a camera operator for Megan Thee Stallion starting around July of 2018, has filed a lawsuit against the rapper, Pitchfork reports, accusing her of harassment and creating a “hostile work environment.” In the suit, Garcia says he quit his previous job to work for Megan full time in September of 2019, and was told “unexpectedly” in June of 2023 that “his services would no longer be required by” her.

Garcia writes in the suit that he was on tour with Megan in Ibiza, Spain in June of 2022, riding in an SUV with her and three other women, and says that Megan “and one of the other women started having sex right beside [him].” He writes that he “could not get out of the car as it was both moving and he was in the middle of nowhere in a foreign country,” and says he was left “embarrassed, mortified and offended throughout the whole ordeal.”

Garcia says that Megan made “fat-shaming comments” towards him after the alleged incident, told him “don’t ever discuss what you saw,” and that he “noticed a change in how he was treated and saw a decrease in the number of bookings he received.” He also says that he wasn’t compensated properly by Megan and her management company Roc Nation, and claims he was denied payment for overtime hours, as well as meal and rest breaks.

Ron Zambrano, an attorney for Emilio Garcia, wrote in a statement shared with Pitchfork, “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. 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.”

Megan has not issued a response at this time.