Amid her ongoing lawsuit against her former dancers, Lizzo is speaking out against “false accusers” in a new post on Substack. She wrote in her essay, “Who’s Gonna Write the op-ed on False Accusers?” that “victims of sexual assault, rape, sexual harassment” are harmed by people who make “false allegations.”
The post from Lizzo criticizes social media comments, the judicial system, the “believe women” movement, and the misinformation of the Trump era, to make her point about the issue, which is that people who have experienced “true traumatic crimes” are discouraged from speaking out when others make fake claims and “make light of the exact kind of trauma they’ve endured.”
“As a person who has been publicly falsely accused I think about the impact that has had on others,” she wrote. “I think about the cognitive dissonance one experiences hoping that the allegation they heard about someone they like isn’t true, but also deeply not wanting to invalidate an alleged victim. I think about them having to choose sides while reliving their own trauma.”
The writing from the “About Damn Time” singer comes after she won a part of the lawsuit she’s been fighting for the last two years. Lizzo was sued in 2023 by her former employees, Arianna Davis, Noelle Rodriguez, and Crystal Williams, who accused her and her production company of sexual harassment and fat-shaming.
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