Lizzo faces recent allegations of a ‘sexually charged setting’ from a minimum of SIX extra individuals who toured along with her

Attorneys representing three of Lizzo‘s former back-up dancers who filed a lawsuit over claims of weight shaming and sexual harassment at work claimed a minimum of six different folks have since submitted complaints directed on the singer. 

Ron Zambrano, a lawyer whose follow focuses on employment regulation and is representing back-up dancers Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez stated his agency is now wanting into the brand new complaints.

Zambrano instructed NBC News the allegations had been made by six individuals who claimed to have toured with Lizzo, both as back-up dancers or on the popstar’s Amazon studios present, describing the complaints as centering round an alleged ‘sexually charged setting’ on Lizzo’s tour, and failure to pay workers.

It comes after dancers Davis, Williams and Rodriguez sat down for an interview with Good Morning America final week wherein they branded the 35-year-old pop star ‘fat-phobic’ and shared sordid tales from their time touring with their former employer. 

Lizzo has strenuously denied the claims made by her former dancers. 

Authorized woes: The trio doubled down on their claims towards the pop star, 35, after submitting a lawsuit over an alleged hostile office setting, weight shaming and sexual harassment

‘I do know it is alarming to listen to that Lizzo, a plus-size girl who preaches physique positivity, could be fat-phobic, basically. However I need to problem folks to know that damage folks damage folks,’ Davis stated. 

Rodriguez in the meantime recounted the second Lizzo allegedly threatened her, after she instructed her she wished to resign as a result of she felt ‘unsafe’ and ‘disrespected’.

‘She principally began to ball up her fists and crack her knuckles, and she or he was like ‘You are so effin fortunate proper now’ as she’s like inching her approach in the direction of me.’

Rodriguez then claimed Lizzo’s finest pal jumped off the sofa and needed to bodily restrain her.

Davis additionally teared up whereas describing the incident when Lizzo allegedly pressured her into touching a nude performer at a intercourse present in Amsterdam.

‘She began a chant, after I stated ‘no’ a number of occasions,’ Davis stated, explaining how Lizzo started to chant her title, ‘Ari’.

‘I briefly touched the performer and withdrew my fingers, and you already know, everybody form of burst into laughter ‘trigger me of all folks they thought it was humorous that I used to be touching this performer.’

‘I form of chuckle it off,’ she stated, as her voice cracked. ‘Sorry, I am just a little emotional about it.’

‘I even keep in mind making jokes about it as a result of I simply was making an attempt to get the eye away from me.’

When the interviewer requested if she couldn’t have left earlier, Davis replied, ‘We’re right here as a result of we need to be adequate for Lizzo.’

The dancers additionally claimed they felt like their job was at all times on the road.

‘Our jobs are at all times being threatened. I personally by no means had job safety on this entire – this entire total time,’ Davis stated.

She and Williams had been fired, whereas Rodriguez resigned in what she claims was a response to the pair’s alleged remedy. 

Talking out: Lizzo’s former back-up dancers Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez branded the singer ‘fat-phobic’ in a brand new interview with Good Morning America

‘Fats-phobic’: ‘I do know it is alarming to listen to that Lizzo, a plus measurement girl who preaches physique positivity, could be fat-phobic… However I need to problem folks to know that damage folks damage folks,’ Davis stated

Accusations: ‘She principally began to ball up her fists and crack her knuckles, and she or he was like ”You are so effin fortunate proper now” as she’s like inching her approach in the direction of me’

In her assertion addressing the allegations, Lizzo wrote: ‘These previous few days have been intestine wrenchingly tough and overwhelmingly disappointing.

‘My work ethic, morals and respectfulness have been questioned. My character has been criticized. Often I select not to answer false allegations however these are as unbelievable as they sound and too outrageous to not be addressed.

‘These sensationalized tales are coming from former workers who’ve already publicly admitted that they had been instructed their habits on tour was inappropriate and unprofessional.

‘As an artist I’ve at all times been very enthusiastic about what I do. I take my music and my performances critically as a result of on the finish of the day I solely need to put out the very best artwork that represents me and my followers.

‘With ardour comes laborious work and excessive requirements. Typically I’ve to make laborious choices however it’s by no means my intention to make anybody really feel uncomfortable or like they don’t seem to be valued as an vital a part of the group.

‘l am 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 few days.

‘I’m very open with my sexuality and expressing myself however I can’t settle for or enable folks to make use of that openness to make me out to be one thing I’m not.

‘There may be nothing I take extra critically than the respect we deserve as ladies on the planet. I do know what it feels wish to be physique shamed each day and would completely by no means criticize or terminate an worker due to their weight.

‘I am damage however I cannot let the nice work I’ve performed on the planet be overshadowed by this. I need to thank everybody who has reached out in assist to carry me up throughout this tough time.’

Of their Good Morning America interview, the dancers addressed Lizzo’s response, with Davis stating: ‘This publish felt like a punch.’ 

Williams expressed disappointment that Lizzo didn’t present ‘acknowledgement of our emotions when her model is to evangelise about ladies empowerment’.

‘I am actually thoughts blown on the hypocrisy simply of every little thing that you just stand for. You are contradicting proper earlier than our very eyes,’ she stated.

Rodriguez added: ‘For the various ladies which have – as a result of it is primarily ladies – which have come ahead and stated they felt the identical, or have shared their tales with us as a result of they do not need to publicly share it but, it utterly form of invalidates all of our expertise and our trauma and our ache.’ 

Lizzo’s assertion in full: The singer addressed all of the claims and stated her morals and values have been known as into query

Lizzo performs at Qudos Financial institution Enviornment on July 23, 2023 in Sydney, Australia 

Of their lawsuit, Davis, Williams and Rodriguez accused the Grammy-winning singer – in addition to the Large Grrrl Large Touring and dance group captain Shirlene Quigley – of making a ‘sexually charged and uncomfortable’ work setting.

The trio declare that, whereas on a live performance journey with the artist to Amsterdam in February 2023, Lizzo invited them for an evening out in town that ended within the metropolis’s Purple Mild District.

They stated of their submitting: ‘Issues rapidly bought out of hand. Lizzo started inviting solid members to take turns touching the nude performers, catching dildos launched from the performers’ vaginas, and consuming bananas protruding from the performers’ vaginas.’

The dancers added Lizzo allegedly ‘pressured’ and ‘goaded’ Arianna into touching one of many nude performers’ breasts.

In one other occasion, the plaintiffs declare Lizzo invited the dancers to a membership in Paris – however failed to say that it was a nude cabaret bar. This ‘shocked’ the dancers, who stated Lizzo ‘robbed them of the selection to not take part,’ the swimsuit stated.

Because the lawsuit was filed, Lizzo has misplaced greater than 120,000 followers on Instagram.

Hours after the lawsuit information was made public, Lizzo’s former inventive director Quinn Whitney Wilson and dancer Courtney Hollinquest claimed they skilled comparable mistreatment.