Lizzo Felt ‘Haunted’ by Claims Made About Her in Lawsuit in a Post Hitting Back at Her Ex-Dancers
In 2023, Lizzo’s former backup dancers filed a lawsuit against her. Three ex-dancers accused her of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment. Her stylist later filed a lawsuit against the singer and other team members. Following the dismissal of some of the lawsuit’s claims by a judge, Lizzo posted a video addressing some of the allegations against her.
Lizzo’s backup dancers filed a lawsuit against her
In 2023, Lizzo’s former dancers, Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams, and Noelle Rodriguez, accused her of sexual assault and fostering a negative work environment. Asha Daniels, her former stylist, later accused Lizzo and members of her team of sexual harassment, discrimination, assault, and retaliatory termination. Lizzo was later dismissed individually from Daniels’ lawsuit.
Lizzo has maintained her innocence.
“The hardest part about all of this is that none of these things are true,” she said on Baby This Is Keke Palmer. “They’re very silly claims. I could go through every single one. The sexual harassment one is really the one that upsets me the most.”
Lizzo said she was haunted by claims made in the lawsuit
This month, Davis, Williams, and Rodriguez agreed to drop some of their claims against Lizzo. Among these were claims that she fat-shamed them and fired Davis after her weight gain. Lizzo requested the judge to throw out the suit altogether, but he only dismissed some claims about her.
The singer later took to social media to address her recent legal victory.
“There was no evidence that I fired them because they gained weight. Because it never happened,” she wrote on text over an Instagram video. “Now the truth is finally out. They weren’t fired for gaining weight. They were fired for taking a private recording of me without my consent and sending it off to ex-employees.”
She noted that she has “only encouraged and supported people with bigger bodies.”
“This claim has haunted me since the day it came out,” she wrote. “It has been devastating to suffer through this in silence but I let my lawyers lead and I’m so grateful for this victory.”
She added that she has no intention of settling. She wants to fight every claim against her and hopes things end in her favor.
Lawyers for the singer’s backup dancers addressed the recent ruling
Ron Zambrano, the lawyer for Lizzo’s former dancers, said that his clients will not appeal the decision. The majority of the lawsuit still stands.
“We are maintaining that Judge Epstein was correct in his ruling denying Lizzo’s special motion to strike the vast majority of claims they attacked, including false imprisonment and harassment,” he said, per Rolling Stone. “Of the couple of claims Judge Epstein did dismiss, the plaintiffs have taken a considered approach to leave that be. One would hope to see the same level of intellectual honesty and neutral assessment from the defendants, but that hasn’t been the case thus far and it’s disappointing.”
