Lizzo participates in the 65th GRAMMY Awards on February 05, 2023 in Los Angeles. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
Filmmaker Sophia Nahli Allison is speaking up after 3 excursion professional dancers filed a lawsuit against Lizzo Tuesday (Aug. 1) that declared the celebrity subjected them to unwanted sexual advances as well as an aggressive workplace.
Allison declares in a message shared on her Instagram Stories as well as Twitter account that she had actually been affixed to the vocalist’s docudrama Love, Lizzo in 2019, yet rapidly left the job. “I usually do not comment on anything pop culture related,” she edited a photo of herself at the office. “But, In 2019, I traveled a bit with Lizzo to be the director of her documentary. I walked away after about 2 weeks. I was treated with such disrespect by her.”
She proceeded, “I witnessed how arrogant, self-centered, and unkind she is. I was not protected and was thrown into a sh-tty situation with little support.” Allison after that kept in mind that her intestine informed her to leave the job, as well as is “grateful” that she did, including that she “felt gaslit and was deeply hurt.”
“Reading these reports made me realize how dangerous of a situation it was,” the filmmaker ended prior to sending her assistance to the professional dancers. “This kind of abuse of power happens far too often.”
Billboard has actually connected to Lizzo’s representatives for remark relating to Allison’s insurance claims.
On Twitter, the filmmaker — that is recognized for the Oscar-chosen Netflix docudrama A Love Song for Latasha, concerning the 1992 capturing fatality of 15-year-old Latasha Harlins in Los Angeles — shared why she intended to speak up. “Validating other Black women’s experiences is deeply important to me,” she discussed.
The Love, Lizzo documentary for HBO Max was revealed in May 2022, as well as launched in November 2022. Doug Pray, that formerly created HBO docudrama The Defiant Ones, concerning Dr. Dre as well as Jimmy Iovine’s collaboration, guided the job.
In the issue submitted Tuesday in Los Angeles, professional dancers Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams as well as Noelle Rodriguez affirm that Lizzo pushed them to head to an Amsterdam sex program as well as involve with the entertainers, which she “called attention” to one professional dancer’s weight gain. The “Special” vocalist has actually been a forthright supporter of body positivity, as well as typically banged net giants for body-shaming ladies.
The pop celebrity likewise introduced her very own truth program, Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, for Amazon’s Prime Video in March 2022. The program followed her look for back-up professional dancers to join her on excursion. “Y’all know how hard it’s been finding dancers that look like me,” she created on Instagram when the trailer decreased in February 2022. “But if I gotta get a TV show to get the world to see the value in us big grrrls B—H IMMA DO IT.”
Representatives for Lizzo have actually not yet returned Billboard‘s ask for remark concerning the legal action.
