During her first interview since getting shot by police, Weezer bassist Scott Shriner's estranged wife Jillian Lauren has broken her silence about the incident that took place in April.
Lauren was shot by the police during a hit-and-run investigation after officials said she fired on one of their officers. Breaking her silence about the incident, Lauren says her act was in "self-defense."
Lauren, the author of "Some Girls: My Life in a Harem," and soon-to-be ex-wife of Scott Shriner, spoke about the incident that took place after police stormed her Los Angeles neighborhood in search of on-the-lam hit-and-run suspects and unexpectedly engaged in a showdown in her backyard. Police claimed that Lauren fired at officers who were yelling over a fence at her, resulting in the officers returning fire and hitting her in the arm.
Lauren, who was charged with two felony counts and later pled not guilty to charges of discharging a firearm with gross negligence and assault with a semiautomatic firearm, told Rolling Stone that her "world fell to pieces" after the incident in April.
"It's like, you spend your whole life just getting an entire deck of cards in order. And just take them and throw them up in the air one day, and I'm still waiting to see how they're gonna land," she said.
"I was doing the best I knew to protect my family," Lauren told Rolling Stone. "[The] impulse was self-defense."
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