Fact Hurts singer Lizzo has spoken out intimately about the stunning lawsuit a few of her former dancers filed towards her in August 2023.

In an emotional roller-coaster of an interview on Keke Palmer’s podcast, Child, This Is Keke Palmer, the Grammy winner denied a number of allegations of a hostile work setting, weight-shaming, sexual and racial harassment, and extra.

The interview comes months after the go well with was placed on maintain and a number of claims had been dismissed.

“I used to be actually dwelling in my dream, after which the tour ended, and three ex-dancers simply fully, like, blindsided me with a lawsuit,” Lizzo instructed the host, emphasising repeatedly within the interview that she doesn’t see herself as a sufferer.

“These had been folks that — I preferred them and appreciated them as dancers, revered them as dancers. So I used to be like, ‘what?’. However then I heard all the opposite issues, like sexual harassment, and I used to be like, ‘they’re making an attempt… nicely… I don’t know what they’re making an attempt to do, however these are the kinds of issues that the media can flip into one thing that it’s not’,” the singer, recognized for hits together with About Rattling Time and Good as heLL added.

The lawsuit — filed by Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez — additionally listed the tour’s manufacturing firm and the dance captain as defendants.

The dance captain, Shirlene Quigley, is accused of pushing Christianity onto the dancers and likewise speaking about her sexual habits and fantasies. Lizzo was accused of forcing a dancer to the touch a nude performer at a membership in Amsterdam and of firing the three dancers.

“Let’s be clear. I did nothing mistaken, so I’ve no regrets, however I do have, now, this discovered expertise that’s getting ready me for the boss that I’m changing into,” Lizzo stated, emphasising the blurred strains between working relationships and friendships within the music trade.

She added that she would deal with issues in a different way now as a boss, having discovered from her experiences.

Lizzo additionally promoted an upcoming album on the present.

In response to the podcast, legal professional Ron Zambrano, who represents the three dancers, criticised Lizzo for having an “utter lack of know-how” because the dancers’ boss.

“There’s an utter lack of know-how by Lizzo failing to see how these younger girls on her staff who’re simply beginning their careers would really feel pressured to just accept an invite from their world superstar boss who hardly ever hangs out with them,” Zambrano stated in an announcement to HuffPost on Thursday.

“There’s a energy dynamic within the boss-employee context that Lizzo totally fails to understand. We stand by the claims within the lawsuit and are ready to show all the pieces in court docket with Lizzo on the stand below oath earlier than a jury of her friends, not spouting nonsense and lies rationalizing a failure to take accountability on a podcast.”

Lizzo confronted comparable allegations in a lawsuit filed by a former wardrobe designer, Asha Daniels. Nonetheless, Lizzo was dismissed from the continued lawsuit earlier this month.