Lizzo opens up about melancholy amid harassment allegations

Lizzo opens up about melancholy amid harassment allegations

Lizzo opened up about her struggles with melancholy throughout her Wednesday live performance in Los Angeles. 

The singer revealed that she hit a low level in 2023 after going through sexual harassment lawsuits.

“I named [my album ‘Love in Real Life’] because about a year and a half ago… I was in such a dark, deep depression,” Lizzo informed the gang on the Wiltern Theater. 

“I was so heartbroken by the world and so deeply hurt that I didn’t want to live anymore, and I was so deeply afraid of people that I didn’t want to be seen.”

The About Rattling Time singer defined that an expertise at a live performance helped her change her perspective. “As I was walking through the crowd to get to my spot, something miraculous happened. Somebody, who I didn’t know, looked at me and said, ‘Lizzo, I love you.’ And they reached out, and I reached back, and we hugged, and it felt so damn good,” she mentioned.

She described the second as “f—ing life-saving.” 

“And after that experience I was like, ‘Damn, you can’t get this s— on the internet, bro. This is the kind of love you can only get in real life.”

The singer shared her story to probably attain anybody coping with “depression, or darkness, or felt so betrayed by someone they trusted or was lied on and hated on for those lies.”

In August 2023, Lizzo was hit with a sexual assault lawsuit by a number of former background dancers. She denied the allegations, calling them “outrageous” and “unbelievable.” 

Extra claims of sexual harassment adopted, together with a lawsuit from former stylist Asha Daniels.

In December 2024, it was reported that Daniels’ swimsuit was dropped. A supply near Lizzo mentioned the singer “won’t stop fighting the ‘false’ allegations” and refuses to settle.

The Reality Hurts crooner continues to be going through a number of ongoing lawsuits from former workers claiming sexual and racial harassment and a poisonous work setting. She maintains that the allegations towards her are false.