Lizzo took to social media on Friday afternoon (March 29) to share an emotionally pushed assertion.
“I’m getting bored with placing up with being dragged by everybody in my life and on the Web,” she wrote in opposition to an orange and yellow background. “All I need is to make music and make folks completely satisfied and assist the world be a bit of higher than how I discovered it. However I’m beginning to really feel just like the world doesn’t need me in it.”
She continued, “I’m always up in opposition to lies being informed about me for clout & views… being the butt of the joke each single time due to how I look… my character being picked aside by individuals who don’t know me and disrespecting my identify. I didn’t join this s— — I QUIT [peace out emoji].”
Billboard has reached out to Lizzo’s crew to substantiate the validity of the assertion.
The “About Rattling Time” singer has been beneath scrutiny over the previous yr, as she’s been concerned in a harassment lawsuit introduced by three of the “Particular” singer’s former dancers in August 2023. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles by dancers Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez, accuses Lizzo (actual identify Melissa Jefferson) and her Huge Grrrl Huge Touring Inc. of a variety of authorized wrongdoing and included dozens of pages of detailed allegations.
In a single allegation, the lawsuit claims that Lizzo pushed the dancers to attend a intercourse present in Amsterdam’s famed Crimson Gentle District after which pressured them to interact with the performers. The lawsuit additionally detailed alleged outbursts by Lizzo, together with an “excruciating re-audition” in April after she accused the dancers of “ingesting alcohol earlier than reveals”; one dancer claims the ordeal continued for therefore lengthy that she moist herself as a result of she feared she could be fired if she left the stage. The case additionally claims Lizzo repeatedly informed dancers “none of their jobs had been secure” and raised “thinly veiled issues” a few dancer’s weight achieve.
Lizzo denied the claims in a response shared to Twitter, calling them “false allegations” and “sensationalized tales.” In March, a decide ordered the case “stayed” whereas Lizzo challenges his January ruling, which largely rejected her efforts to dismiss the lawsuit beneath California’s anti-SLAPP statute — a particular regulation that makes it simpler to shortly finish meritless lawsuits that threaten free speech.
Every week in the past, Lizzo took to Instagram to disclose that she is engaged on new music and “nearly prepared” to “be a standard human once more… to be exterior.. to like and belief folks.. to attempt to make new pals… to go on stay … to sing and discuss my ache and pleasure… simply give me a lil extra time.”
She continued, “Thank u for the persistence and to those who unfollowed thank u too cus now I do know the place we stand.”
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