Beyoncé has appeared to skip Lizzo’s identify in her stay rendition of ‘Break My Soul’, following lawsuit allegations being raised towards her.
Information broke yesterday (August 1) that the ‘About Rattling Time’ singer is being sued by three of her former dancers, who cite accusations of sexual harassment and a hostile work atmosphere.
Now, though Lizzo has but to answer the accusations raised towards her, it seems that Beyoncé has drawn gentle to the allegations at her most up-to-date present in Boston, Massachusetts.
The second happened throughout Beyoncé’s set – as a part of her hit ‘Renaissance’ tour – the place she performs ‘The Queens Remix’ of her 2022 tune ‘Break My Soul’. Within the remix, she begins to listing off a variety of iconic and boundary-breaking Black feminine artists.
Normally, she lists off names, together with Betty Davis, Solange Knowles, Erykah Badu, Lizzo and Kelly Rowland. Nevertheless, at yesterday’s present (August 1), which got here simply hours after the allegations got here to gentle, the singer left Lizzo’s identify out of the listing.
As an alternative, she talked about rapper, singer, songwriter and document producer Erykah Badu 4 instances whereas on stage on the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough. Discover footage of the second under.
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NBC Information named the dancers concerned within the lawsuit as Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams, and Noelle Rodriguez. All of them danced for Lizzo till earlier this yr, when Davis and Williams had been fired and Rodriguez resigned shortly after.
The alleged incident of sexual harassment talked about supposedly happened in a strip membership in Amsterdam earlier this yr.
The swimsuit states that Lizzo “started inviting solid members to take turns touching the nude performers, catching dildos launched from the performers’ vaginas, and consuming bananas protruding from the performers’ vaginas”.
It additionally acknowledged that on the identical night, “Lizzo then turned her consideration to Ms. Davis and commenced pressuring Ms. Davis to the touch the breasts of one of many nude girls”.
The swimsuit additionally alleges that Lizzo subjected the group to an “excruciating” audition, following 12 hours of rehearsal, after falsely accusing them of consuming on the job.
Lizzo – actual identify Melissa Viviane Jefferson – shared her appreciation for Beyoncé final month in a TikTok replace.
“There are days the place the hate outweighs the love so badly that I need to stop music and simply disappear,” she mentioned within the clip, “I positively find the money for to go and purchase a farm and simply by no means fuck with anyone ever once more, as a result of fuck all people. Then, I reminded myself to rise up, get out, and get some solar, and I placed on ‘Renaissance’.”
Following the accusations, NME reached out to Lizzo’s representatives for remark.
In different Beyoncé information, at her present on Saturday (July 29), the singer paid tribute to knowledgeable dancer who was fatally stabbed after dancing to her music.
