Lizzo Has ‘Very Poisonous Relationship with the Web’ After Sexual Harassment, Assault Lawsuit

• Throughout an look on Keke Palmer’s podcast ‘Child, This Is Keke Palmer,’ Lizzo addressed the social media break she took in 2023
• The “Water Me” singer revealed she has a “very poisonous relationship with the web”
• She additionally mentioned how dropping 150,000 followers in in the future impacted her

Lizzo is addressing the social media break she took in 2023.

In an interview on Child, This Is Keke Palmer that aired on Thursday, Dec. 19, the “Fact Hurts” singer spoke about her relationship with the web whereas breaking her silence in regards to the sexual harassment and assault lawsuits she faces.

Palmer, 31, requested Lizzo, 36, how dropping 150,000 followers in in the future impacted her. “I used to be like, Oh, wow. That is the a part of fame that you just unknowingly join,” she mentioned.

Lizzo continued, “Folks now will simply imagine something unhealthy about you as a result of there’s one thing about being a well-known individual that it is nearly like individuals wanna imagine that you are a unhealthy particular person, and so they cannot imagine that you just’re really boring and chill and good.”

“However for those who unfollowed me that rapidly, had been you even a fan?” she mentioned, emphasizing the explanation she was doing the interview.

Lizzo mentioned she wasn’t doing the interview “for the 150,000 individuals who unfollowed me.”

“I am doing this interview for my followers who care about me, who’ve stood beside me, and, the those who I have been wanting to talk to for thus lengthy,” she mentioned.

Lizzo additionally spoke in regards to the social media break she took from August 2023 to January 2024. “Something that you just noticed was both somebody on my crew posted for me, or I posted actual fast and threw my telephone,” she defined.

The “Water Me” artist mentioned she prevented the “jokes,” “memes” and “discourse” surrounding her on-line. “Once I see issues about me now, or if even when I see a phrase that appears like my title, I get bodily unwell, and I am unable to take it. So I’ve a really poisonous relationship with the web now,” mentioned Lizzo.

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She added: “So I pulled out, and it was very wholesome for me. I recommend everybody do it. I do not recommend beneath the circumstances, however everybody ought to pull out for a minute.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Lizzo addressed the lawsuit filed towards her by three former backup dancers. She mentioned she was “deeply stunned” by the complaints and was “blindsided.”

In August 2023, three of Lizzo’s former backup dancers — Crystal Williams, Arianna Davis and Noelle Rodriguez — sued the Grammy winner for alleged sexual and racial harassment and a hostile work atmosphere, courtroom paperwork obtained by PEOPLE.

The dancers claimed that Lizzo’s Large Grrrl touring firm “handled the Black members of the dance crew in another way than different members.”

Lizzo denied these allegations in an Instagram submit. The case is at the moment being reviewed by the courtroom of appeals, with the subsequent listening to to be held Jan. 14, 2025.

The next month, the “Good as Hell” singer obtained one other grievance. Asha Daniels, a clothier who toured with Lizzo, alleged that she fostered a “racist and sexualized” atmosphere.

Daniels claimed that she was “witnessing myself, the dancers and the background vocalists and my native crew in each metropolis be harassed and bullied often,” per NBC Information.

Lizzo denied these allegations as effectively. In an announcement obtained by PEOPLE on Thursday, Dec. 19, Daniels’ lawyer Ron Zambrano clarified that Lizzo is not a defendant as a person, the lawsuit “remains to be very energetic and has not been dismissed.”