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Megan Thee Stallion Opens Up About Spending Her First Christmas Without Her Mother

“Always try to be kind to others because you never know what they’re going through," she said.
Megan Thee Stallion Opens Up About Spending Her First Christmas Without Her Mother
By Paula Rogo · Updated November 4, 2020

Megan Thee Stallion is back in Texas for the holidays and the rapper is opening up about the emotional loss of her mother and grandmother this year.

It’s been a breakout year for the Houston native, who has seen her career skyrocket to new heights. But this her first Christmas without both women, and she has been feeling the loss.

In a short video addressed to her fans, she revealed that she couldn’t record the video without breaking down into tears a number of times.

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It’s really hard for me to open up and be vulnerable most times but I know I’m not the only person dealing with these feelings around the holiday times. I see a lot of my hotties checking on me In my dm’s asking how I am and just showing me a lot of love and it really made me get emotional. I’m definitely still in a bad place when it comes to the topic of my mother and great grandmother but they raised me to be strong so I’m going to continue to be strong and make them proud of me. I know that pain is temporary and I’m going to continue to get better and grow into the woman my mother knew I could be ! Just remember to try to always be kind to people , check on them , uplift your loved ones because you never know what people are going through internally.

A post shared by Hot Girl Meg (@theestallion) on Dec 24, 2019 at 4:49pm PST

“This year I lost my mom and my grandmother in the same month,” she says in the video. “Although all these positive things have been happening to me, and I’ve been trying to do good, been trying to keep a smile on my face,  stay strong, to stay happy for me and my other grandmother and the rest of my family, it’s pretty hard.”

Megan’s mother and manager, Holly “Holly-Wood” Thomas, died from a brain tumor in March. Her grandmother passed away two weeks later.

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We were together EVERYDAY, holly was my biggest cheerleader and toughest critic. she taught me enough for 2 lifetimes and if you were blessed to meet her she taught you something too. My mama is still my rock, my world and my inspiration. ima go 100x harder because I kno that’s what she would want me to do.

A post shared by Hot Girl Meg (@theestallion) on Mar 23, 2019 at 9:30am PDT

“This is the first Christmas that I’m [spending] without them, and I just wanted to give some hope to my hotties that might be going through something too,” she continued. “I just wanted to spread some positivity and tell ya’ll to stay positive, stay kind through your hard times because the pain doesn’t last forever. Try not to get in a dark place.”

Megan was inspired to enter the rap game because of her mother, who was also a rapper. She told ESSENCE she would spend countless hours listening to her mom and started writing her own rhymes at an early age.

“I knew I wanted to be a rapper when I was, like, 5. My mom was a rapper. I would go to the studio with her, and that definitely showed me I can do this, I wanna do this,” she recalled. “I remember my first time ever listening to rappers like Pimp C and Biggie, and being like, ‘All this would sound super cool if a girl was saying it.’”

And her advice to anyone else watching her Christmas video: “Always try to be kind to others because you never know what they’re going through.”

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