Megan Thee Stallion is setting the record straight on all those rumors she was banned from the Met Gala after using her phone to document the night — a big no-no.

Megan recorded bits of her 2025 Met Gala experience despite the gala’s explicit no-phones-allowed rule. In the time since, rumors have swirled that her phone usage got her banned from the annual high-fashion event.

The 30-year-old spoke exclusively with PEOPLE on May 13 about partnering with Airbnb to bring fans the Otaku Hottie Quest Experience and reflected on her time at this year’s Met Gala.

“No. We’re gonna dead these rumors right now, OK? People are like, ‘Oh my God, Megan, you got banned from the Met Gala. No, I didn’t, babe. Like that’s not true,” Megan tells PEOPLE exclusively.

She continues, “Y’all made that up and ran with it. They love making [stuff up]. Anna [Wintour] loves me, babe. That’s why my phone was out.”

At the Met Gala, Megan dropped Instagram videos from inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art that featured her, Doechii and WNBA player Angel Reese trying the food. “We’re not supposed to have our phones, but we’re doing it [anyway],” she said in the May 5 post.

During the event, Megan wore a cleavage-baring, sparkling silver gown custom-designed by Michael Kors with an extravagant white fur coat. For glam, the rapper wore her hair in a larger-than-life tiered ponytail inspired by Josephine Baker for the night’s “Tailored for You” dress code.

Megan says wearing the hairstyle was a breeze. “I wear at least 10-pound wigs all the time,” she tells PEOPLE. “I put a lot of bundles in my hair, so my neck is pretty strong.”

“I’m surprised [my neck] doesn’t have abs, but yeah. My hair was definitely light work. That was lightweight,” Megan adds. “That was a regular day.”

Megan wasn’t the only celebrity at the bathroom to break the “no cellphones” rule. The 2025 Met Gala spawned not one but two contraband bathroom selfies.

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The first, taken by Laura Harrier, featured Quinta Brunson, Ego Nwodim, Andrew Scott, LaKeith Stanfield, Sarah Snook, Keith Powers, Brian Tyree Henry, Monica Barbaro, Jeremy Pope and Justice Smith all posing for the group photo.

Lewis Hamilton — one of this year’s gala co-chairs — also took a bathroom selfie: a video that featured Tracee Ellis Ross, Evan Ross, Cynthia Erivo, Caleb McLaughlin, Ayo Edebiri, Colman Domingo and his husband Raúl Domingo, among others.

Megan teased her Airbnb experience in her exclusive interview with PEOPLE, saying that her favorite part “would definitely be either the ramen part or the hot lava.”

The Otaku Hottie experience will see 12 lucky fans immersing themselves into Megan’s Otakuverse on June 12. The experience will allow guests to participate in activities like choosing cosplay outfits and battling in a 1-on-1 Mortal Kombat 1 competition on Xbox Series X.

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The rapper will be present at the experience, “awarding special charms to guests so they can level up their Otaku Hottie Status.”

“I really just like that they’re gonna get to experience all the things that I like, and what I would be doing on a normal Megan Thee Stallion day — and the Hotties get to come do it with me,” she adds of the experience.

Fans can request to book the Otaku Hottie Quest by visiting airbnb.com/megantheestallion. Submissions open on May 13 and close on May 20 at 11:30 p.m. PT.

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Quentin Tarantino and his wife, Daniella Pick, have arrived in France for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival!

On Tuesday, May 13, filmmaker Tarantino, 62, and Pick, 41, walked the red carpet together as this year’s festival got underway. Tarantino wrapped his arms lovingly around his wife as they posed together on the carpet with their faces touching.

The Kill Bill filmmaker is in Cannes this week as guest of honor at this year’s festival; he is scheduled to participate in discussions about the 20th century Western filmmaker George Sherman, whose movies, Comanche Territory and Red Canyon, are screening in the festival’s Cannes Classics section. Tarantino previously won the Palme d’Or, Cannes’ most prestigious film award, in 1995 for Pulp Fiction; and in 2004, he served as Cannes’ jury president.

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Tarantino and Pick’s appearance in Cannes marks a rare public outing for the couple, who got married in Los Angeles in November 2018. “Bonjour Cannes,” Pick wrote over a photo she shared showing fruit and pastries to her Instagram Stories on May 13 — hours before the couple took the carpet.

Earlier on Tuesday, the couple was also photographed holding hands as they arrived at a hotel just ahead of the festival’s opening night. Tarantino flashed a peace sign with his right hand at photographers while holding Pick’s with his left; his wife wore an all-white outfit that featured a crop top and matching cargo pants as she carried a bag over her shoulder and a white jacket in her hands.

Pick is an Israeli singer; she and Tarantino first met when the director was visiting Israel in 2009 to promote his World War II movie. Inglorious Basterds. The pair made their red carpet debut that same year at the premiere of Drew Barrymore‘s Whip It. 

The couple had an on-and-off-again relationship until they got engaged in 2017. They share two children: son Leo, 5, who was born in February 2020, and a daughter, 2, who was born in July 2022.

Tarantino last released a movie with 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, his ninth directorial feature. Pick also made her acting debut in period drama about various Hollywood characters living in 1969 Los Angeles.

The filmmaker has long said he will only write and direct 10 movies himself, but he said during an appearance at the Sundance Film Festival in January that he is in “no hurry to actually jump into production” on his 10th movie while he focuses on parenting.

“I’ve been doing that for 30 years,” he said of work at the time. “Next month my son turns 5, and I have a 2½-year-old daughter. When I’m in America, I’m writing. When I’m in Israel? I’m an abba, which means father.”

The Cannes Film Festival will run from May 13 through May 24.