A Director Quit Doing A Documentary On Lizzo Because She Claims "She's A Narcissistic Bully, Who Built Her Entire Brand Off Lies"
Entertainment Weekly - Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sophia Nahli Allison claims she has firsthand experience with the alleged "extremely toxic and hostile working environment" created by pop sensation Lizzo.
Hours after three former backup dancers filed a lawsuit against Lizzo — alleging sexual harassment, weight-shaming, and a toxic work environment — Allison revealed on Instagram that she exited her role as the director of the Love, Lizzo documentary after only two weeks of working with the singer.
"Lizzo creates an extremely toxic and hostile working environment and undermines the work, labor and authority of other Black and brown womxn in the process," Allison claimed in a followup post on Wednesday. "Notice how the documentary ended up being directed by a cis white man."
She went on to claim that Lizzo is a "narcissistic bully" who "has built her brand off lies."
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"I was excited to support and protect a Black woman through the documentary process but quickly learned her image and 'message' was a curated facade," Allison wrote. "I stand with the dancers and anyone who has had similar experiences working with her and her team. These working conditions are not ok."
It's bad bitch o'clock, am I right?
Whoa, nelly what a takedown.
I don't think the best PR Firm in the world could spin this one. You hire an Oscar-nominated director to film a documentary on yourself, and she doesn't even make it two weeks before quitting and then going on social media to call your entire career a bed of lies, and you a narcissistic bully?
By now everybody is well aware of Lizzo's ALLEGED circus shit going on with her tour. Dancer's shoving bananas up their hoo-ha's and forcing other dancers to eat them and other college softball shit like that.
That snake in the grass former teammate of mine Kelly Keegs wrote a half-ass blog about it all last week.
Well, that set this entire thing off like the first domino falling. And it's not just the alleged sexual hazing stuff either. Her former employees have alleged sexual, religious, and racial harassment, in addition to disability discrimination, assault, false imprisonment, and more.
I learned back in my criminal justice and law firm days that if you kidnap somebody and/or hold them against their will, you may as well just kill them because the prison time you're looking at for serious kidnapping/imprisonment is fucking wild in comparison to murder. It's just about equal in most cases. Makes no sense.
So yah, serious allegations.
And it didn't help Lizzo's case when her former documentary director came out and basically said she's the worst.
In her initial post responding to this news, posted on Tuesday, Allison wrote that she was "treated with such disrespect" by the Grammy winner after traveling with her for two weeks, having "witnessed how arrogant and unkind she is."
She added, "I was not protected and was thrown into a shitty situation with little support. My spirit said to run as fast as you fucking can and I'm so grateful I trusted my gut. I felt gaslit and was deeply hurt but I've healed."
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Amongst the complaints listed in the lawsuit, the dancers specifically point to alleged instances of Lizzo weight-shaming, verbally attacking, and pressuring them into sexual situations.
"Reading these reports made me realize how dangerous of a situation it was," Allison said of her time working with the singer. "This kind of abuse of power happens far too often. Much love and support to the dancers."
Now let's address the elephant in the room here shall we?
What kind of narcissistic bully commissions a documentary about themself?
I get being approached and greenlighting one. I get doing the damned thing for 50 years like The Stones or The Who or somebody and saying, "you know what would be great to commemorate things, like a time capsule, and something our millions of fans would love? A documentary."
But Lizzo's been around for a minute and a half.
"Truth Hurts" blew up and put her on the map in 2017.
And the sad thing is a lot of people really fucking loved her then. Myself included.
She built up a shit ton of goodwill by being humble, gracious, and thriving in the underdog role. There we all these stories of the work she put in for years, grinding, before finally breaking through with a hit. So many people were rooting for her and enjoying her success and come up with her.
But shortly after that, all started to fade…
There was the plagiarism accusation in 2018.
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But then she was accused again by somebody totally different, 3 men who claimed they helped her write the song.
Then there was the time that same year she basically doxed a Postmates driver who she accused of stealing her food.
Then she went ass out at that Lakers game, shoved it in everybody's faces, then acted appalled when she caught shit for it on social media.
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Then she went on video and told Chris Brown "he was her favorite person".
Then she said she wanted to fuck all the members of BTS
I wrote a blog in January that never got published, obviously, about Lizzo flipping out about "cancel culture". Something we'd all get behind right? Because cancel culture fucking sucks. Absolutely. Except that Lizzo wanted to cancel cancel culture because she deemed it "appropriation".
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Then this latest shitstorm with her dancers.
And now, she went and hired this guy.
And filed countersuit.
But did she already tell on herself with her song "Rumors"?
Daily Mail - Lizzo's lyrics to a 2021 track titled, Rumors, has resurfaced due to its references to a lawsuit - as singer is sued by three former dancers for sexual harassment and a 'hostile work environment.'
The song was a collaboration between the Truth Hurts performer, 35, and rapper Cardi B, which jumped onto the Billboard Top 10 chart at the time of its release.
However, some lyrics are filtering through the internet shortly after dancers Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez filed the lawsuit on Tuesday at the L.A. Superior Court.
Nearly 30 seconds into the track, Lizzo sings, 'Had to cut some hs loose, yeah/ NDA, no loose lips/ Now them hs tryna sue me/ Bh I don’t give two ss/ All the rumors are true, yeah.'
Since the lawsuit came to light, the Grammy winner herself has yet to publicly respond or release a statement.
What I'm saying is she went from very easy to root for, to hard to. Which is sad.
p.s. - one of my favorite lizzo stories was when she ripped the met gala for being a bunch of cheap assholes because "they were stingy with the food and tequila". lame as fuck party.