Lizzo has been accused of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment by three of her former dancers.
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00:00Lizzo is being sued by three of her former dancers for weight shaming, sexual harassment,
00:05and fostering a hostile work environment.
00:07Ariana Davis, Crystal Williams, and Noel Rodriguez filed a lawsuit against Lizzo, her production
00:12company, and a member of her dance team through a California Superior Court on Tuesday.
00:17The suit alleges that Lizzo overworked her dancers by making them re-audition in an excruciating
00:2212-hour rehearsal.
00:23Those Lizzo were dissatisfied with were allegedly fired and sent home.
00:27The plaintiffs also allege that during a night out at a nude club in Amsterdam, Lizzo pressured
00:31her dancers to touch one of the nude performers.
00:34While in Paris, Lizzo also allegedly invited her dancers to a club to quote, learn something
00:38or be inspired by the performance, but failed to mention that it was a nude cabaret bar,
00:43the lawsuit claims.
00:44They also accuse Lizzo of making a thinly veiled comment that called attention to one
00:48dancer's weight gain and subsequently questioning her commitment to the job.
00:51The suit also accuses the captain of Lizzo's dance team, Shirlene Quigley, of trying to
00:56convert the dancers to her religion, scolding the dancers for having premarital sex, and
01:00unwarrantly discussing sexual fantasies with the group.
01:03The lawyer of the three dancers said quote, the stunning nature of how Lizzo and her management
01:07team treated the performers seems to go against everything Lizzo stands for publicly, while
01:11privately she weight shames her dancers and demeans them in ways that are not only illegal
01:16but absolutely demoralizing.