Extra complaints into Lizzo’s behaviour are being investigated by attorneys representing her accusers.
Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez, together with a 3rd dancer, Arianna Davis, have filed a lawsuit against the Grammy-winning musician and her production company, Huge Grrrl Huge Touring (BGBT), which additionally contains claims of non secular harassment, incapacity discrimination, assault, and false imprisonment.
Chatting with NBC Information, Ron Zambrano mentioned his agency is now contemporary allegations from six individuals who say they toured with Lizzo, in addition to others who labored on her TV present Lizzo’s Watch Out For The Huge Grrrls.
Mr Zambrano mentioned the allegations are of a “sexually charged setting”, and failure to pay employees, including a number of the claims are doubtlessly actionable.
After information of the lawsuit emerged, Lizzo issued a press release on social media saying she was “not the villain”. The singer, who is known for championing body positivity, described the allegations as “unbelievable” and “too outrageous to not be addressed”.
In response, Ms Williams told Sky News: “Her assertion is simply confirming the sample of each time any individual speaks up or advocates for themselves, like we’re doing now, we get victim-blamed, we get gaslighted. And she or he likes to level the finger as an alternative of addressing the problems which can be being introduced up.”
That is one thing that occurs on an “on a regular basis foundation” when working with stars, she mentioned. “Sadly, we have already skilled not solely dancers which have labored along with her instantly, however dancers which can be simply within the leisure business on the whole, they’ve already come out and so they’ve shared their tales.
“They really feel courageous sufficient to share their experiences… earlier than individuals had been simply silent about it, they did not really feel comfy sufficient. They did not really feel protected sufficient to name these artists out, to name these administration groups out, and allow them to know, ‘hey, what you are doing is incorrect’.”
Lizzo is a four-time Grammy winner who was named Time’s entertainer of the yr in 2019. She is greatest identified for hits together with Reality Hurts, Juice, Good As Hell and About Rattling Time.
Ms Davis and Ms Williams started dancing with the star after competing on her Amazon actuality present Watch Out For The Huge Grrrls in 2021, however had been each later fired. Ms Rodriguez was employed in the identical yr after performing within the video for the music Rumours, however resigned earlier this yr over the “appalling behaviour”.
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Ms Rodriguez in contrast working for Lizzo to dancing for the likes of Beyoncé and Girl Gaga, saying elsewhere this week: “I imply, working with Beyoncé, it’s important to be in your P’s and Q’s. Similar factor with somebody like Janet [Jackson] or Girl Gaga.
“However what they did otherwise and what Lizzo’s not understanding as a businesswoman, is which you could nonetheless have this expectation, this degree of expertise and power that you really want round you, however nonetheless present appreciation to your employees.
“There is a actually good steadiness of that, and I simply do not perceive, the extra you present that appreciation to your employees and that you take care of them and all the things that they are doing for you as they’re for you as nicely, the more durable they need to be just right for you.
“I believe that is the most important distinction that she would not fairly perceive but.”
In her assertion responding to the ladies’s lawsuit, Lizzo mentioned: “Often I select not to reply to false allegations, however these are as unbelievable as they sound and too outrageous to not be addressed.”
She added: “I’m not right here to be checked out as a sufferer, however I additionally know that I’m not the villain that individuals and the media have portrayed me to be these previous couple of days.”
Sky Information has contacted Lizzo’s representatives for remark.