Lizzo Says She Was once ‘Blindsided’ by way of Harassment Lawsuit

Lizzo is talking out amid her ongoing lawsuit accusing her of harassment.

The “About Rattling Time” singer joined Keke Palmer at the latter’s Child, This Is Keke Palmer podcast on Thursday (Dec. 19), the place she mentioned the harassment lawsuit introduced by way of 3 of her former dancers in August 2023.

The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles by way of dancers Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez, accuses Lizzo (actual title Melissa Jefferson) and her Large Grrrl Large Traveling Inc. of a variety of prison wrongdoing and integrated dozens of pages of detailed allegations. Lizzo denied the claims in a reaction shared to Twitter, calling them “false allegations” and “sensationalized tales.”

All through her interview with Palmer, Lizzo mirrored at the busy 12 months that started off together with her first enviornment excursion. “I used to be actually dwelling in my dream, after which the excursion ended, and 3 ex-dancers simply utterly, like, blindsided me with a lawsuit,” she mentioned. “I used to be very deeply harm as a result of those had been 3 ex-dancers, so that they weren’t at the excursion. They didn’t, like, end the excursion out with us. However even irrespective of that, those had been those that I gave alternatives to.”

She added, “Those had been those that — I preferred them and liked them as dancers, revered them as dancers. So I used to be like, what? However then I heard all of the different such things as sexual harassment, and I used to be like, they’re making an attempt neatly, I don’t know what they’re seeking to do, however those are the varieties of issues that the media can turn out to be one thing that it’s now not.”

Lizzo mentioned that she’s studying from the revel in transferring ahead, however concluded by way of noting, “Let’s be transparent, I did not anything improper.”

The plaintiffs’ legal professional Ron Zambrano answered to Lizzo’s feedback in a remark to Billboard, writing, “There may be an utter lack of expertise by way of Lizzo failing to peer how those younger girls on her crew who’re simply beginning their careers would really feel harassed to just accept a call for participation from their international famous person boss who hardly hangs out with them. There’s a energy dynamic within the boss-employee context that Lizzo completely fails to comprehend. We stand by way of the claims within the lawsuit and are ready to turn out the whole lot in courtroom with Lizzo at the stand underneath oath prior to a jury of her friends, now not spouting nonsense and lies rationalizing a failure to take responsibility on a podcast.”