Report: Lizzo 'Quits' The Music Industry

 

Lizzo reportedly has 'quit' the music industry

Lizzo took to social media on Friday afternoon (March 29) to share an emotionally driven statement.

“I’m getting tired of putting up with being dragged by everyone in my life and on the Internet,” she wrote against an orange and yellow background. “All I want is to make music and make people happy and help the world be a little better than how I found it. But I’m starting to feel like the world doesn’t want me in it.”

Billboard has reached out to Lizzo’s team to confirm the validity of the statement.

The “About Damn Time” singer has been under scrutiny over the past year, as she’s been involved in a harassment lawsuit brought by three of the “Special” singer’s former dancers in August 2023. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles by dancers Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez, accuses Lizzo (real name Melissa Jefferson) and her Big Grrrl Big Touring Inc. of a wide range of legal wrongdoing and included dozens of pages of detailed allegations.

In one allegation, the lawsuit claims that Lizzo pushed the dancers to attend a sex show in Amsterdam’s famed Red Light District and then pressured them to engage with the performers. 

The lawsuit also detailed alleged outbursts by Lizzo, including an “excruciating re-audition” in April after she accused the dancers of “drinking alcohol before shows”; one dancer claims the ordeal continued for so long that she wet herself because she feared she would be fired if she left the stage. The case also claims Lizzo repeatedly told dancers “none of their jobs were safe” and raised “thinly veiled concerns” about a dancer’s weight gain.

The DNC may have rolled out the big guns for its Radio City Music Hall fundraiser, but an attorney for Lizzo’s accusers thinks it was politically incorrect.

“It’s just a terrible look.”https://t.co/hw6p738xIx

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) March 29, 2024

Lizzo’s message comes in the wake of the Democratic National Committee facing criticism for hiring her as a headliner for President Biden’s election fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall Thursday night.