Drake has filed a lawsuit against a woman named Layla Lace, claiming she lied about being pregnant with his baby and falsely accused him of rape in an effort to extort him.
According to TMZ, Drake claims in lawsuit documents that he and Layla — who he met during his “Boy Meets World Tour” in Manchester, England last year —had consensual sex after one of his shows in February 2017. “Layla also voluntarily and seemingly happily performed oral sex…,” the lawsuit states.
Drake additionally claims in the lawsuit that Layla created a “fantasy relationship” with him, and his lawsuit documents include dozens of text messages between the two, seemingly as proof. The “God’s Plan” rapper alleges that his lack of responses in the texts set her off, which caused her to falsely claim she was impregnated by him.
“So I guess still in this era this is the new thing that after you tell a dude you pregnant they stop answering they phone,” Layla wrote, in part, on Instagram back in April 2017. “I feel so stupid… I never told this man ‘No’ I did everything he told me to do… ((NEVER)) asked him for a dime… But don’t worry ima make sure I make a field day out of your f***ing ass.” After posting on Instagram, according to the lawsuit, Layla then threatened to publicly leak text messages from Drake. She later went through with her threat and additionally went on a radio show to announce that the 31-year-old rapper got her pregnant.
According to the lawsuit, Layla then got a lawyer and asked that Drake pay her for the baby. However, the suit claims, Layla and her lawyer went radio silent after Layla refused to take a paternity test. “There is no credible evidence of pregnancy, nor any baby, which would have been born last Fall,” Drake’s lawyer claimed in the lawsuit documents.
After he refused to pay up without a paternity test, Drake claims Layla went to police and said he raped her. While the lawsuit states that Drake was ultimately cleared, Layla still demanded millions of dollars in exchange for her silence. Now it seems Drake has had enough and is suing her for civil extortion, emotional distress, fraud, defamation, and abuse of process, TMZ reports.