Lizzo has kept a relatively low profile since being sued by former dancers – Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez.
As reported, the ‘About Damn Time’ performer was sued by three women who accused her team of workplace harassment, racial and disability discrimination, among other allegations.
A judge recently dismissed several aspects of the case – with Lizzo, as an individual, no longer part of the litigation.
Sitting down with Keke Palmer, Lizzo turned up the volume on her side of the story.
Waxing candidly, the Houston native fessed to feeling “betrayal” at the hands of the accusers, the media, and to some degree, the public.
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Speaking on the ‘Baby, It’s Keke Palmer’ podcast, Lizzo addressed the current status of the case:
“We’re continuing to fight the other claims until they’re all dismissed — not dropped, but dismissed. “It is a big victory.”
Directly addressing the accuser’s claims and its effect on her, she said:
“The hardest part about all this is that none of these things were true. I was completely surprised. I was very deeply hurt because these were three dancers… that I gave opportunities to. These were people that I liked and appreciated as dancers, respected them as dancers. So I was like, ‘What?!’ But then I heard all the other things, like sexual harassment, and I was like, ‘I don’t know what they’re trying to do,’ but these are the types of things that the media can turn into something that it’s not.”
Continuing, she added:
“I went [to club Bananenbar] on my own because I was in Amsterdam… I didn’t take [the dancers, the plaintiffs] anywhere. They came to the club I was at, and it was no mandatory invitation, and I didn’t even know that those two particular dancers [plaintiffs] were coming. Mind you, only two of them came, even though all three of them said they did, it was only two.”
On the matter overall, Lizzo said:
“I did nothing wrong, so I have no regrets. But I do have now this learned experience.”
Of the effect it’s had on her, the 36-year-old admitted:
“That period of my life was dark because of the feeling of betrayal.”
She also dished on new music:
“A lot of the music is me talking things through,” she said. “I remembered my purpose… I’m putting everything in my art.”