Lizzo’s former backup dancers have hit again after the Reality Hurts singer broke her silence following the lawsuit they filed towards her earlier this week.
The 35-year-old has been sued by the dancers, Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez, who’ve accused her of sexual, racial, and non secular harassment and making a hostile work setting, amongst different claims.
Lizzo addressed the allegations on Thursday, denying the claims and labelled them “outrageous”.
“I’m not right here to be checked out as a sufferer, however I additionally know that I’m not the villain that folks and the media have portrayed me to be these previous few days,” the Grammy Award winner wrote within the assertion. “I’m very open with my sexuality and expressing myself however I can not settle for or enable folks to make use of that openness to make me out to be one thing I’m not.”
Quickly after Lizzo’s assertion was posted, the dancers reacted to it throughout an interview with Channel 4.
“Initially for me, it simply additional deepened my disappointment with reference to how I used to be feeling and the way I used to be handled,” Williams, who joined Lizzo’s dance workforce in 2021, stated.
“I feel the general theme in all that is that our experiences have been our experiences and our traumas have been our traumas. In bringing that ahead, it feels prefer it was disregarded fully,” Williams added. “It seems like we have been made out to be placing out false allegations when that’s not the case.”
“So sure, it was very disheartening to learn and really feel ignored particularly when she stands for what she stands for with reference to ladies’s empowerment – being an advocate for psychological well being, being an advocate for physique positivity – and to only additional show that that’s not the case, as a result of nothing was acknowledged in that assertion,” the dancer said.
Moreover, in a joint look with Williams on CBS Information, Davis addressed her claims that Lizzo had pressured her to the touch a nude performer whereas in a strip membership in Amsterdam.
“I didn’t ask for it. I stated no a number of occasions,” Davis, who additionally joined the workforce in 2021, stated. “I used to be very, very mortified, everybody burst into laughter,” she added.
Along with the Juice hitmaker, the lawsuit was filed towards her manufacturing firm Massive Grrrl Massive Touring, Inc. and dance captain Shirlene Quigley.
