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Lizzo has opened up in regards to the allegations made in an explosive lawsuit. The ‘Particular’ singer says she was shocked by allegations made by three of her former dancers that she supplied a hostile office setting and shamed them due to their weight. In 2023, three dancers filed a swimsuit, additionally claiming that Lizzo sexually harassed them.
Lizzo says she will be able to communicate out now as a result of she’s been dismissed from the case, however she continues to be preventing for her firm to be eliminated as effectively.
Born Melissa Jefferson, Lizzo, now 36, has turn out to be one of many business’s top-selling feminine artists after Prince nurtured her earlier in her profession. She’s launched 4 studio albums and earned 4 Grammys however has been bullied on-line for her weight. In a latest look on Keke Palmer’s podcast Child This Is Keke Palmer, she mentioned the allegations have been laborious to take, on condition that she’s championed girls all through her profession.
“We’re persevering with to combat the opposite claims till they’re all dismissed — not dropped, however dismissed,” Lizzo mentioned. “It’s a large victory. Let’s be clear: I did nothing mistaken. I do have now this realized expertise that’s making ready me for the boss that I’m changing into. This expertise hasn’t stopped me from being me.”
The claims of sexual harassment stem from a nightclub outing in Amsterdam. The dancers —Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams, and Noelle Rodriguez— say they have been pressured to the touch the performers at a dwell intercourse present. Within the swimsuit, the dancers say that the afterparties have been non-mandatory however that Lizzo rewarded individuals who repeatedly attended them. At this one, the swimsuit says, Lizzo requested “solid members to take turns touching the nude performers, catching dildos launched from the performers” vaginas, and “consuming bananas protruding from the performers’ vaginas.”
Davis says she was pressured to the touch the nude breasts of one of many performers and was laughed at when she did. Lizzo says the characterization of what occurred in Amsterdam is inaccurate.
“I went alone as a result of I used to be in Amsterdam … I didn’t take [the plaintiffs] wherever. They got here to the membership I used to be at, and it was no necessary invitation, and I didn’t even know that these two specific dancers have been coming. Thoughts you, solely two of them got here, although all three of them mentioned they did; it was solely two.”
Lizzo says the intercourse present has been occurring since 1945 with none issues and describes the night as “enjoyable.”
“I don’t assume that individuals who I make use of ought to even be aware about how I’m in a bar at this level,” Lizzo mentioned. “I feel that this expertise taught me wholesome boundaries, however to be actual with you, it was such a enjoyable evening… I feel there’s a time the place there’s a distinction between having boundaries {and professional} boundaries … It’s nuanced. It’s a brand new dialog on this business.”
She informed Palmer that the lawsuit felt like a “betrayal” and that since then, she’s realized that she has to set a agency line between her private {and professional} life. However Lizzo says she’s going to proceed to combat to have the lawsuit dismissed.
“Individuals shouldn’t be in a position to simply say something about someone and put it within the media and ask for cash,” she added. “You shouldn’t have the ability to do these issues.”
