Lizzo and her team, who were once a champion of body positivity, have been slapped with another damning lawsuit by one of her former touring members.
An ex-wardrobe designer has come forward, claiming that Lizzo was "racist" and "fatphobic."
Lizzo New Lawsuit Explained
According to Forbes, ex-wardrobe designer and seamstress on Lizzo's tour, Asha Daniels, filed a complaint at the Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming that she was subjected to racial and sexual harassment, illegal retaliation, assault, disability discrimination, and many others.
The publication reported that Daniels' lawsuit was focused on Lizzo's wardrobe manager, Amanda Nomura who she claimed to be spewing fatphobic and racist comments. She also mocked Lizzo and her backup dancers, who were also the complainants of another lawsuit.
Daniels also claimed that Nomura made an "offensive stereotypical impression of a black woman."
The lawsuit seemed to corroborate the claims of the three former dancers of Lizzo in the previous lawsuit of similar complaints. Apparently, Daniels got "uncomfortable" when the team, including Nomura, discussed hiring sex workers and hard drugs during the "Special" Tour stop in Amsterdam.
On the said Amsterdam trip, dancers claimed that they were pressured to come and party with Lizzo who asked them to touch sex workers inappropriately.
Daniels also claimed that Nomura even forced dancers to change clothes in front of a majority male stage crew who would "lewdly gawk" at them. At one point, Daniels also recalled working despite being physically injured. She was eventually fired "without notice or reason."
"I was listening to this Black woman on this huge stage have this message of self-love and caring for others and being empathetic and being strong and standing up for others," Daniels said in a statement, referring to Lizzo. "And I was witnessing myself, the dancers and the background vocalists and my local team in every city be harassed and bullied regularly."
Lizzo Responds To New Lawsuit
Lizzo's legal camp has responded to the new lawsuit that was filed in Los Angeles, Daniel's lawsuit.
"As Lizzo receives a Humanitarian Award tonight from the Black Music Action Coalition for the incredible charitable work she has done to lift up all people, an ambulance-chasing lawyer tries to sully this honor by recruiting someone to file a bogus, absurd publicity-stunt lawsuit who, wait for it, never actually met or even spoke with Lizzo. We will pay this as much attention as it deserves. None," he said in a statement to NBC News.
Lizzo has also denied the allegations filed by three of her former dancers.
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