Academy Award nominee documentarian and photographer Sophia Nahli Allison has come ahead saying she left a mission with Lizzo as a consequence of “such disrespect”.
The feedback come following allegations raised in opposition to the singer.
Information was shared yesterday (August 1) that the ‘Good As Hell’ singer was dealing with accusations of sexual harassment and a hostile work surroundings – raised by three of her former backup dancers.
The rapper, singer, songwriter and actress is accused of pressuring a co-worker to the touch a unadorned performer in an Amsterdam membership and subjecting dancers to “excruciating” auditions. It additionally cites claims of spiritual and racial harassment, false imprisonment, interference with potential financial benefit and extra.
Now, because the accusations got here to gentle, documentarian and photographer Sophia Nahli Allison has come ahead and shared her expertise of working alongside the singer – revealing that she left a job directing a Lizzo documentary as a consequence of poor therapy.
Sharing a brand new submit on Twitter (X), she posted a picture of her working at a gig, with paragraphs of textual content written on the highest. These defined how she give up working with Lizzo after simply two weeks in 2019 after she was “handled with such disrespect by her”.
Sharing this as a result of validating different Black ladies’s experiences is deeply necessary to me. pic.twitter.com/gd2xEK6szq
— Sophia Nahli Allison (@SophiaNAllison) August 1, 2023
“I witnessed how boastful, self-centered, and unkind she is. I used to be not protected and was thrown right into a shitty scenario with little assist,” she wrote. “My spirit stated to run as quick as you fucking can and I’m so grateful I trusted my intestine.”
She continued: “I felt gaslit and was deeply damage, however I’ve healed. Studying these reviews made me understand how harmful of a scenario it was. This sort of abuse of energy occurs far too typically.”
Within the replace, she additionally captioned the submit, explaining that she wished to share her expertise as a result of “validating different Black ladies’s experiences is deeply necessary to me”.
Allison was the 2017 Pupil Video Photographer of the Yr, and rose to fame following her critically acclaimed quick movie A Love Music For Latasha. Debuted on the 2019 Tribeca Movie Competition, the mission went on to earn an Oscar nomination for Finest Documentary (Brief Topic) and an IDA nomination for Finest Brief.
Lizzo has but to answer the allegations raised in opposition to her. NME has reached out to her representatives for remark.
Though Lizzo has not but commented on the accusations raised in opposition to her, it seems that Beyoncé has drawn gentle to the allegations at her most up-to-date present in Boston, Massachusetts.
The second came about throughout a rendition of ‘Break My Soul (The Queens Remix)’ – which sees her listing off numerous iconic and boundary-breaking Black feminine artists. Ultimately night time’s present (August 1), she left Lizzo’s identify out of the listing for the primary time, and as an alternative repeated Erykah Badu’s identify 4 instances.
