Oop: Lawyer For Backup Dancers Suing Lizzo Calls Out Her ‘I Quit’ Post: ‘It’s A Joke’

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Within the ongoing authorized battle between Lizzo and her former backup dancers, tensions have escalated with a current social media submit from the singer.

As we beforehand reported, Lizzo, who has been going through allegations of sexual harassment and fostering a hostile work surroundings, lately took to Instagram to specific her frustration, declaring, “I QUIT.”

Nonetheless, Ron Zambrano, the lawyer representing the three dancers concerned within the lawsuit, was fast to reply, criticizing Lizzo for what he deemed as attention-seeking conduct. He emphasised that the singer ought to deal with addressing the accusations towards her somewhat than deflecting blame. Zambrano additional accused Lizzo of resorting to ways of victimhood to evade accountability for her actions. The lawyer highlighted the discrepancy between Lizzo’s public picture of positivity and the intense allegations leveled towards her by the dancers. “It’s a joke that Lizzo would say she is being bullied by the web when she ought to as an alternative be taking an trustworthy take a look at herself,” He stated. Zambrano continued,

“Her newest submit is simply one other outburst searching for consideration and attempting to deflect from her personal failings as she continues accountable everybody else for the predicament she is in,” he continued. “Lizzo’s authorized and public relations technique is a failure, so she is desperately attempting to play the sufferer. “Se has thrown these infantile tantrums earlier than. Nobody truly believes she is quitting music. However she ought to stop sexually harassing, shaming and bullying her workers and at last settle for duty for her actions.”

“She will be able to make all of this go away just by seizing the chance right here to set an instance, come clean with her errors, pay what’s attributable to these she’s wronged and work on changing into a greater particular person. Superstar toxicity is poisoning the leisure trade with Diddy and Dan Schneider being the newest examples, and Lizzo’s conduct is not going to be tolerated, both. There isn’t a extra protected place in society for this kind of conduct as all the trade is in for a reckoning for allowing such vile therapy of workers within the office.”

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Regardless of Lizzo’s denial of the accusations and her makes an attempt to have the lawsuit dismissed, the authorized battle continues.

In response to Zambrano’s statements, a spokesperson for Lizzo dismissed the lawyer’s remarks as unfounded private assaults.

“With practically half his case dismissed, 18 impartial witnesses siding with Lizzo and no settlement on the best way to get him his tasty contingency payment, Ron has began making wild private assaults which have completely nothing to do with the purchasers,” Stefan Friedman, a spokesperson for Lizzo, addressed Zambrano in a press release to Billboard on Monday.

Whereas the singer has not clarified the specifics of her “I QUIT” submit, the continuing authorized challenges counsel that the battle is much from over.