Lizzo’s profession would possibly by no means recuperate from explosive allegations

After I first heard the disturbing allegations about Lizzo — three of her former tour dancers filed a stunning lawsuit accusing the “About Rattling Time” singer — I discovered the information tough to imagine.

Since breaking out huge in 2019 with hits reminiscent of “Reality Hurts” and “Juice,” the four-time Grammy winner has been all about making us really feel good as hell about ourselves.

The flautist-turned-pop idol has been the pied piper of self-love and, specifically, physique positivity — an artist with a plus-sized coronary heart.

Now, Lizzo, her manufacturing firm Massive Grrrl Massive Touring Inc. and her dance captain Shirlene Quigley have been accused of fat-shaming and pressuring dancers to partake in intercourse exhibits and sexually denigrating acts.

Whereas Lizzo denied the allegations in an Instagram publish on Thursday morning, it’s exhausting to see her making a full restoration right here.

First, increasingly girls are popping out in assist of the dancers who filed go well with.

Oscar-nominated director Sophia Nahlia Allison took to social media to disclose that she walked away from a Lizzo documentary in 2019 as a result of “I used to be handled with such disrespect by her. I witnessed how conceited and unkind she is.”

Allison then doubled-down with a second Instagram story standing with the dancers, saying “[Lizzo] is a narcissistic bully and has constructed her model off of lies,” she wrote.

Lizzo’s former inventive director, Quinn Whitney Wilson, additionally backed up the dancers’ claims. “Massive shoutout to the dancers who had the braveness to convey this to gentle,” she wrote on her Instagram story.

Even worse, on Tuesday at her Boston present, Beyoncé failed to give Lizzo her usual shout-out. The transfer smacked of a serious fallout, although Bey’s mother, Tina Knowles, rapidly denied that it was a slight.

A special sort of pop star would possibly recuperate from this, however Lizzo, Inc. has been constructed on feminine empowerment and good vibes.

The declare about body-shaming one of many dancers over weight achieve is especially troubling for a lady who had an Emmy-winning actuality present, “Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Massive Grrrls,” about auditioning and empowering her plus-sized steppers.

The general public can typically forgive sure behaviors if a diva is being, properly, a diva.

Simply final week, social media ate it up when Beyoncé gave her manufacturing crew the facet eye after some poor soul failed to show the fan on throughout a Chicago present on her “Renaissance” World Tour. “Someone’s getting fired” was the joke.

And Madonna put her divatude on full show for the entire world to see in her groundbreaking documentary “Reality or Dare” in 1991.

Admittedly, 32 years later, a few of her habits — as scrumptious because it was to look at while you didn’t should undergo from it — is perhaps thought of bullying right this moment, however she was solely celebrated for supplying you with an actual peek behind the scenes.

Lizzo, nevertheless, is extra prone to undergo a destiny much like Ellen DeGeneres.

She constructed her popularity because the Queen of Good, and when allegations surfaced that she was really a terror behind the scenes, it was a deadly, poisonous blow.

Her present went off the air final 12 months — and the fallout from that seemingly contributed to her resolution to drag the plug.

Whereas Lizzo must be given the advantage of the doubt — and a few grace — till any allegations are confirmed, even the suggestion that she might need been mendacity to us all this time is disheartening. Nobody likes to really feel as in the event that they’ve been duped.

When your model is constructed on being your most genuine self, fakeness hurts.