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Lizzo spoke retired aft a trio of her erstwhile dancers filed a intersexual harassment suit against. On Aug. 3, Grammy-winner, 35, defended herself against the claims of sexual, religious, and radical harassment, arsenic good arsenic allegations of disablement discrimination, assault, and mendacious imprisonment. “These past fewer days person been gut wrenchingly hard and overwhelming and disappointing,” she wrote connected Instagram. “My enactment ethic, morals and respectfulness person been questioned. My quality has been criticized. Usually I take not to respond to mendacious allegations, but these are arsenic unbelievable arsenic they dependable and excessively outrageous not to beryllium addressed.”
The singer’s erstwhile dancers Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams, and Noelle Rodriguez filed a civilian suit against Lizzo connected Tuesday, August 1. The 3 were seeking damages from Lizzo, her accumulation institution Big Grrrl Big Touring, Inc., and creation skipper Shirlene Quigley, according to The Associated Press.
The suit claimed that during a nighttime retired successful Amsterdam’s Red Light territory aft a concert, Lizzo brought her squad to a sexually-themed performance, and encouraged dancers to interaction the nude performers. The suit claims that the vocalist began a chant to person Arianna to interaction 1 of the nude performers’ breasts, which she did aft the chants became “overwhelming,” and she wanted it to stop. “Plaintiffs were aghast with however small respect Lizzo showed for the bodily autonomy of her employees and those astir her, particularly successful the beingness of galore radical whom she employed,” the suit says.
Lizzo was sued by 3 erstwhile dancers. (Valeria Magri/SOPA Images/Shutterstock)
Arianna besides claimed that Lizzo had called her retired for gaining weight and called her committedness to being a dancer into question. She was fired successful May 2023 aft she recorded a gathering wherever Lizzo gave notes to dancers. She besides accused the creation skipper of trying to propulsion her Christian beliefs onto the dancers and singled her retired arsenic a “non-believer.”
Lizzo has often been celebrated for her body-positive messaging successful her songs, performances, interviews, and overmuch more. The vocalist has often responded to critics and unopen down radical body-shaming her connected societal media, sharing her experiences. Back successful January, she shared a video clapping back astatine radical talking astir her body. “The sermon astir bodies is officially tired,” she said. “Artists are present to marque art. And this assemblage is art. And I’m gonna bash immoderate I privation with this body.”
In airy of the lawsuit, Beyonce appeared to permission retired Lizzo’s sanction during a lyric astatine the Boston performance for her Renaissance tour, per CNN. While the Lemonade popstar performs “The Queens” remix of her deed “Break My Soul,” she includes a database of influential Black women successful the amusement industry, including Nicki Minaj, Lauryn Hill, and Nina Simone, but during the Boston performance, instrumentality captured videos showed that she near retired Lizzo, opting to repeat Erykah Badu, but the “About Damn Time” singer’s sanction inactive flashed connected a surface down her.
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