Lizzo Is Sued Once Again! Now By Another Ex-Employee Over Harassment And Bullying

Lizzo is sued for the second time in the same year by a former employee. The lawsuit has been filed against the ‘Truth Hurts’ singer over harassment and bullying allegations. The ex-employee claims that she oversaw an “unsafe, sexually charged workplace culture”. The former employee is fashion designer Asha Daniels who has now accused the singer’s wardrobe manager of being extremely unprofessional and making fatphobic and racist comments towards black women in the workplace, subjecting them to mockery. Lizzo’s name came as a defendant in the lawsuit, however, she was not directly accused of workplace harassment.

In the lawsuit that was filed on Thursday in LA, Asha Daniels said that she was hired by the singer and her company to work on her tour in February 2023 but she immediately found the work environment to be “abusive” and “hostile”. The 35-year-old plaintiff also mentioned that the dancers were also “forced to change in and out of their clothes” frequently, that too in the full view of male crew members on the stage. The lawsuit also claims that the male crew members would “lewdly gawk, sneer, and giggle” at the dancers.

Lizzo accepts the Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award at tonight’s Black Music Action Coalition gala, while surrounded by a group of her dancers pic.twitter.com/8wrgwiyidK

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 22, 2023

In the lawsuit, Daniels accused Amanda Nomura, the wardrobe manager of Lizzo of performing “an offensive stereotypical impression of a black woman” as well as mocking the dancers by referring to them as “fat,” “useless” and “dumb”. According to the accusations, Nomura also forced Daniels to work 20-hour shifts straight without any breaks. In her lawsuit, Daniels mentions physical abuse as well as he claims Nomura once shoved her into a rack of clothes that caused her to injure her ankle. Along with it, the lawsuit also mentions how a male backstage member once sent a photo of “graphically depicting male genitalia” to a group chat that included more than 30 crew members.

“No one from Lizzo’s management team addressed this graphic sexual imagery in the workplace appropriately,” the lawsuit claimed. “Instead, Lizzo‘s management found the image to be comical”, it continued. When Lizzo’s tour stopped at Amsterdam, Daniels claims in her lawsuit that she saw Nomura along with other supervisors “discussing hiring sex workers for lewd acts, attending sex shows, and buying hard drugs”. She also stated that she was persuaded to join them. It did not stop there, when feeling uncomfortable Daniels complained about Nomura, and she was “abruptly fired”, even though she was asked afterward to provide further design works.

This lawsuit is similar to another lawsuit that was filed against the singer in August of this year. Later denying these allegations, the singer commented “These sensationalised stories are coming from former employees who have already publicly admitted that they were told their behaviour on tour was inappropriate and unprofessional.” Responding to this latest lawsuit, Stefan Friedman, a spokesperson for Lizzo stated that Daniels never had any contact with the singer during her month on the tour, while claiming the accusations were deliberately timed to occur simultaneously with the singer being presented with a “humanitarian award”.

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