Gloria Velez Recalls 2Pac Protecting Her During ‘Aggressive’ Confrontation: ‘He Calmed Everything’

Gloria Velez has revisited an incident that took place at a Death Row Records event in the ’90s, where the late 2Pac stepped in to get her out of a potentially dangerous confrontation.

Speaking on VladTV, Velez, who previously wrote about her music industry experiences in the book When Silence Screamed: The Girl Who Knew Too Much, said that the incident in question occurred during a special Mother’s Day event, ahead of which Aaron Hall, with whom she was previously in a relationship, was acting “very aggressive.”

According to Velez, Aaron told her to not “leave my side” when they arrived at the venue. Velez said, she was instructed to sit down, at which point “mayhem” began.

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“A girl that was allegedly signed to, I think, Suge [Knight], a heavyset girl, she went up to Aaron and they were talking,” Velez recalled. “She was aggressive and I thought they maybe had something. I thought they maybe had a relationship or were talking. He was trying to calm her and she was screaming, and screaming at me and I’m screaming back. I’m thinking, you know, it’s a love triangle or whatever.”

However, once the unnamed woman “tried to approach” her, Velez added, she realized something “serious” was playing out.

“‘Pac ran, he was on the stage at the time, he ran toward me and then Aaron,” Velez said. “When Pac moved, people shift and they listen. He grabbed her up and dragged her outside and said, ‘Nobody touch her, that’s wifey,’ saying that I’m his wifey. Then he handled the whole situation, he calmed everything.”

Later, Velez said, ‘Pac urged her to leave California, advice she ended up taking. “That’s what we did,” she recalled. “We left. We never turned back.”

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