Final week, Lizzo mentioned “I give up” — however solely 4 days later, the Fact Hurts singer modified her tune and defined she wouldn’t be leaving the music business.
On Tuesday, Lizzo, 35, posted a video to Instagram to “make clear” the that means of her earlier assertion.
“Once I say I give up, I imply I give up giving any unfavorable power consideration,” the four-time Grammy winner mentioned. “What I’m not going to give up is the enjoyment of my life, which is making music, which is connecting to folks.”
Lizzo’s followers have been stunned on March 29 when the singer, whose actual identify is Melissa Jefferson, posted a written assertion to Instagram saying she was “bored with placing up with being dragged by everybody in my life and on the web.”
Lizzo launched to worldwide fame with the discharge of her 2019 album Cuz I Love You and has lengthy since positioned herself as a champion for physique positivity and equality. The singer’s model took a serious hit final 12 months when a number of of her backup dancers filed a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and creation of a hostile work atmosphere.
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Lizzo’s backup dancers file lawsuit alleging sexual harassment, fat-shaming
“I’m consistently up towards lies being informed about me for clout & views… being the butt of the joke each single time due to how I look…my character being picked aside by individuals who don’t know me and disrespecting my identify,” Lizzo initially wrote. “I didn’t join this s—t — I give up.”
Lizzo’s “I give up: Instagram assertion from March 29, 2024.
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In Tuesday’s follow-up video, Lizzo mentioned she made the assertion as a result of the “unfavorable voice” surrounding her, in addition to her work, usually appears to be “louder” than the optimistic.
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Carrying a blue swimsuit from her shapewear model Yitty and matching blue eyeshadow, Lizzo mentioned she hopes her “I give up” assertion evokes no less than one different individual to additionally reduce out negativity from their life.
“I’m going to maintain transferring ahead. I’m going to maintain being me,” she mentioned.
Lizzo thanked her followers for his or her help and mentioned the love she receives “means greater than you realize.”
‘Nobody really believes she is quitting music’
Although a lot of Lizzo’s followers supported the singer’s positivity-only mindset, others felt her “I give up” assertion was made to deliberately mislead.
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Lawyer Ron Zambrano, representing the three dancers suing Lizzo, known as Lizzo’s “I give up” remark “simply one other outburst in search of consideration.”
“It’s a joke that Lizzo would say she is being bullied by the web when she ought to as a substitute be taking an sincere take a look at herself,” Zambrano mentioned in a prolonged assertion to Billboard. “Her newest put up is simply one other outburst in search of consideration and making an attempt to deflect from her personal failings as she continues accountable everybody else for the predicament she is in. Lizzo’s authorized and public relations technique is a failure, so she is desperately making an attempt to play the sufferer.”
“Nobody really believes she is quitting music. However she ought to give up sexually harassing, shaming and bullying her workers and eventually settle for duty for her actions,” he continued.
“She will be able to make all of this go away just by seizing the chance right here to set an instance, come clean with her errors, pay what’s because of these she’s wronged and work on turning into a greater individual,” Zambrano mentioned.
“There isn’t a extra protected place in society for this form of habits as all the business is in for a reckoning for allowing such vile therapy of workers within the office,” Zambrano concluded.
Lizzo denies ‘outrageous’ harassment allegations made by former backup dancers
She earlier petitioned the courts in Los Angeles to dismiss the dancers’ lawsuit, however the movement was denied in February.
An announcement from her spokesperson, Stefan Friedman, branded Zambrano’s feedback a “wild private assault.”
“With practically half his case dismissed, 18 unbiased witnesses siding with Lizzo and no settlement on the way in which to get him his tasty contingency charge, Ron has began making wild private assaults which have completely nothing to do with the purchasers who he’s supposedly representing,” the rep mentioned. “We might humbly advocate that Ron begin representing his purchasers and cease representing simply himself.”
Lizzo has additionally requested a second lawsuit — filed by a stylist alleging bullying and sexual and racial harassment by the singer — be dismissed, although a call has but to be made.
