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“I’m tired of everyone picking on me in my personal life and on the Internet. I want to dedicate myself to music, make people happy and help the world to be a little better than it is. But I’m starting to feel that the world doesn’t want me,” she wrote Lizzo on her Instagram account on Friday.
The four-time Grammy winner added that she constantly faces lies regarding her and is the target of jokes regarding her appearance. “I didn’t sign up for this, I’m quitting,” she says at the end of the post.
What exactly does she mean by that – whether she is leaving the music industry, or only from social networks, the musician has not yet specified. However, the post came a day following a lawyer representing her former dancers, who filed sexual harassment allegations once morest her last year, criticized Lizzo’s choice to headline the benefit event. warns the BBC.
A week following the accusation, the musician denied everything on her Instagram account. She wrote that the allegations were unbelievable and “too outrageous to deal with”. She also claimed that the allegations “come from former employees, (…) whose behavior on tour was inappropriate and unprofessional,” quoting the musician USA Today.
The new post garnered a wave of solidarity and supportive comments. For example, American celebrity Paris Hilton wrote: “We love you queen.” Dancer Kiara Mooring then encouraged the musician not to let the hateful words win and to continue her work.
Lizzo, whose real name is Melissa Jefferson, came to the attention of the general public in 2010 thanks to singles such as Truth Hurts or Good as Hell. Thanks to her figure and choice to wear revealing clothes, she became a prominent figure in the body positivity movement, but also the target of offensive comments and ridicule on the Internet, noted The Guardian.
