Dancers suing Lizzo comment more on their litigation

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filed a lawsuit with the courts in California last week accusing Lizzo and her dance team captain Shirlene Quigley of inappropriate and unfair conduct.

That included making false allegations of unprofessional behaviour against the dancers and then forcing them to go through a “brutal” twelve hour re-auditioning process.In a post on social media, Lizzo hit back at the allegations, which she said were “sensationalised stories … coming from former employees who have already publicly admitted that they were told their behaviour on tour was inappropriate and unprofessional”.In a new interview with Sky News, Williams and Rodriguez commented on Lizzo’s response.

Williams said: “Her statement is just confirming the pattern of every time somebody speaks up or advocates for themselves, like we’re doing now, we get victim-blamed, we get gaslighted.

And she likes to point the finger instead of addressing the issues that are being brought up”.She added that dancers are badly treated on an “everyday basis” when they work with big name artists, confirming that – since she and her former colleagues went legal – they have been approached by other dancers who have worked with Lizzo, as well as those that are “just in the entertainment industry in general”.Those people now feel “brave enough to share their experiences”, she went on. “Before people were just silent about it, they didn’t feel comfortable enough.