“I’m tired of dragging myself through the mud.” Lizo, who is accused of sexual harassment, has announced his retirement.

“I didn’t sign up for this shit,” she wrote in an Instagram story posted on Friday, March 29. The 35-year-old American superstar said he was “tired” of “being dragged through the mud by everyone” in his life and on the Internet. Ridiculed and insulted since the sexual harassment case against his employees, Lizzo declared that he was “fed up”. “All I want to do is make music, make people happy and make this world a little bit better,” he continued, regretfully though. “I’m starting to feel that this world doesn’t want me (…) My personality is being undermined by people who don’t know me and don’t respect me. I didn’t sign up for this shit. I am resigning,” he concluded to his nearly 12 million subscribers.

Amsterdam and its strip club

The winner of 4 “Grammy” and 1 “Emmy” awards has been busy for almost a year. In August 2023, three former dancers accused him of sexual harassment, discrimination and verbal abuse, alleging a hostile work environment. In a statement written by their attorneys, Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noel Rodriguez reported “sexual, religious and racial harassment, disability discrimination, assault and imprisonment, among other things.” Complainants specifically reported an episode that occurred after a concert in Amsterdam. The team went to a strip club in town. “Liso invited her dancers to take turns touching the nude artists,” explained their array of lawyers. Arianna Davis was forced to touch the breasts of one of the naked dancers.

This first round of complaints was followed by another in September 2023, this time by her former stylist Asha Daniels for moral and sexual harassment. “On the one hand, I heard this black woman on this huge stage express a message of self-love, of listening and protecting others, of compassion and strength. On the other hand, I saw myself, the dancers, the singers and my team being harassed and mistreated in every city we passed through,” the former employee stated. NBC Newsa few weeks later.

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icon of body positivismLizo was also accused of being fat-phobic after she made remarks about being overweight to one of her dancers. Asha Daniels’ complaint also relates to Amanda Nomura, a costume designer for the singer’s 2023 tour, who allegedly repeatedly insulted certain employees as “fat” or even as “useless” and “stupid” women. He also allegedly forced them to change in front of the entire crew. Asha Daniels also claims that she once overheard Amanda Nomura “discussing hiring sex workers, going to sex shows, and buying hard drugs” during Lizzo’s tour. In the process, the singer responded to these accusations on her social networks. I will never condemn or fire an employee because of weight. However, heavily criticized, who denounced his hypocrisy, his defense was not enough to stop the lynching of a section of the Internet, which eventually led to his resignation.