Lizzo plans to hit back at her ex backup dancers’ allegations — by suing them!?
04.08.2023 - 00:05 / perezhilton.com
[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content]One of the most disturbing aspects of the lawsuit against Lizzo is the sexual harassment via, well… banana.
In case you haven’t read the case carefully, the Juice singer’s backup dancers complained she took them to a strip club in Amsterdam called Bananenbar. They claimed those who went along on strip club excursions like this were understood to be “favored by the singer and had greater job security.” At the club, the filing claims:
Specifically, dancer Arianna Davis claims she was “pressured” and “goaded” to touch a dancer’s breasts — including with loud public chants. Per the suit:
A member of the security team was also allegedly pressured into getting on stage and stripping for everyone. The filing says:
Lizzo has since said the allegations in the lawsuit are “as unbelievable as they sound and too outrageous not to be addressed.” But how unbelievable do they sound really?
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The thing is, Lizzo taking her dancers to a banana sex show and getting rowdy is, unfortunately for the flutist, a little too plausible, thanks to an interview a few years back in which she talked about her interest in such a show.
In a resurfaced interview with 3FM DJ Frank van der Lende from 2019, the Truth Hurts singer talked about enjoying her time in Amsterdam’s famous red light district, in which she watched live sex shows:
She however, at that point she hadn’t seen the banana show — but wanted to! She asked the DJ:
When van der Lende told her that was the Bananenbar, she responded:
She quipped:
Does this sound like someone ready to get raunchy at a banana show? And share the raucousness with her girls?
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since three former backup dancers sued her over alleged sexual harassment, a hostile work environment, and for pressuring them to participate in sex shows. The fan dive began after news broke former dancers Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams, and Noelle Rodriguez had filed the shocking lawsuit against the Grammy Award-winning star, Big Grrrl Big Touring, and dance captain Shirlene Quigley. According to statistics site Social Blade, Lizzo has lost 219,570 Instagram followers since the Aug.
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