Lizzo Has Lost Over 150,000 Instagram Followers In The Past 24 Hours Amid Growing Backlash Toward Her Statement Addressing Her Former Dancers’ Legal Claims
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Lizzo Has Lost Over 150,000 Instagram Followers In The Past 24 Hours Amid Growing Backlash Toward Her Statement Addressing Her Former Dancers’ Legal Claims,Lizzo was accused of sexual harassment, weight-shaming, and creating a hostile work environment in a lawsuit filed by her former dancers earlier this week.
Lizzo Has Lost Over 150,000 Instagram Followers In The Past 24 Hours Amid Growing Backlash Toward Her Statement Addressing Her Former Dancers’ Legal Claims
Warning: Discussion of sexual harassment.
On Aug. 1, three of Lizzo’s former employees filed a lawsuit accusing her of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment.
Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images for the Met Museum/VogueLizzo’s production company, Big Grrrl Big Touring, and dance captain, Shirlene Quigley, are also named in the lawsuit alongside the singer, though each of them is facing different allegations.
Taylor Hill / WireImageThe suit alleges that Lizzo once pressured her dancers to participate in a sex show that took place inside a strip club in Amsterdam. According to the former employees’ claims, Lizzo began “inviting cast members to take turns touching the nude performers” — which Arianna allegedly declined to do four times — and “eating bananas protruding from the performers’ vaginas.”
Tim Mosenfelder / Getty ImagesThe lawsuit also alleges that Lizzo shamed — and later fired — a dancer over their weight gain, and that she had her dancers do an “excruciating” 12-hour rehearsal. The former employees claimed that if the singer didn’t like their performances, they’d be fired.
Neilson Barnard / Getty Images for the Recording AcademyDescribing the past few days as “overwhelmingly disappointing,” Lizzo claimed that her former dancers’ allegations are “false.”
Paras Griffin / Getty Images for BET“I am not here to be looked at as a victim, but I also know that I am not the villain that people and the media have portrayed me to be these last few days,” she wrote. “I am very open with my sexuality and expressing myself but I cannot accept or allow people to use that openness to make me out to be something I am not.”
Arturo Holmes / Getty Images for the Met Museum/VogueLizzo went on to deny the claims that she fired an employee over their weight: “I know what it feels like to be body shamed on a daily basis and would absolutely never criticize or terminate an employee because of their weight.”
Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesWhile some people have since shown their support for Lizzo in light of her statement, others suggested that she was seemingly “justifying” the alleged behavior” at points — namely when she highlighted that she’s “very open” with her sexuality.
Leon Bennett / Getty Images for BETPresumably as a result, Lizzo’s follower count has dropped significantly over the past 24 hours.
Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for DCPAccording to statistics site Social Blade, Lizzo lost a total of 132,942 Instagram followers the same day she posted her statement denying her former employees’ claims.
Social BladeIn the hours since, she’s lost a further 22,139, bringing her total number of lost followers over the past 24 hours up to 155,081.
Bryan Bedder / Variety via Getty ImagesWhat’s more, Lizzo lost a total of 34,604 Instagram followers on Aug. 1 — the day the suit was filed — and Aug. 2, the day before she spoke out. This means she’s lost almost 200,000 followers since the allegations came to light.
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Lizzo Responded To Her Former Dancers’ Lawsuit And Said Their Claims Of Sexual Harassment Are “False” And “Outrageous”Ellen Durney · Aug. 3, 2023- Here’s What’s Going On With The Dancers Suing LizzoNatasha Jokic · Aug. 1, 2023
- Lizzo Has Been Called “Arrogant, Self-Centered, And Unkind” By A Director Who Refused To Film The Star’s Documentary After She Was Treated With “Disrespect”Stephanie Soteriou · Aug. 2, 2023
- “The Experience Of Working With Lizzo Was A Nightmare”: People Are Sharing Their Alleged Experiences Of Working With LizzoNatasha Jokic · Aug. 2, 2023
Lizzo Responded To Her Former Dancers’ Lawsuit And Said Their Claims Of Sexual Harassment Are “False” And “Outrageous”Ellen Durney · Aug. 3, 2023
Here’s What’s Going On With The Dancers Suing LizzoNatasha Jokic · Aug. 1, 2023
Lizzo Has Been Called “Arrogant, Self-Centered, And Unkind” By A Director Who Refused To Film The Star’s Documentary After She Was Treated With “Disrespect”Stephanie Soteriou · Aug. 2, 2023
“The Experience Of Working With Lizzo Was A Nightmare”: People Are Sharing Their Alleged Experiences Of Working With LizzoNatasha Jokic · Aug. 2, 2023Topics in this article
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