Lizzo Says She Has a 'Very Toxic Relationship with the Internet' After Sexual Harassment, Assault Lawsuit

Mar. 15, 2025

Lizzo in Laguna Niguel in October 2024.Photo:Presley Ann/Getty

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Lizzois addressing the social media break she took in 2023.

Palmer, 31, asked Lizzo, 36, how losing 150,000 followers in one day impacted her. “I was like, Oh, wow. This is the part of fame that you unknowingly sign up for,” she said.

Lizzo continued, “People now will just believe anything bad about you because there’s something about being a famous person that it’s almost like people wanna believe that you’re a bad person, and they can’t believe that you’re actually boring and chill and nice.”

Lizzo performs in Napa in May 2023.WireImage

WireImage

“But if you unfollowed me that quickly, were you even a fan?” she said, emphasizing the reason she was doing the interview.

Lizzo said she wasn’t doing the interview “for the 150,000 people who unfollowed me.”

“I’m doing this interview for my fans who care about me, who’ve stood beside me, and, the people that I’ve been wanting to speak to for so long,” she said.

Lizzo also spoke about the social media break she took from August 2023 to January 2024. “Anything that you saw was either someone on my team posted for me, or I posted real quick and threw my phone,” she explained.

The “Water Me” artist said she avoided the “jokes,” “memes” and “discourse” surrounding her online. “When I see things about me now, or if even if I see a word that looks like my name, I get physically unwell, and I can’t take it. So I have a very toxic relationship with the internet now,” said Lizzo.

Lizzo in New York City in May 2022.Roy Rochlin/Getty Images

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She added: “So I pulled out, and it was very healthy for me. I suggest everyone do it. I don’t suggest under the circumstances, but everyone should pull out for a minute.”

The dancers claimed that Lizzo’s Big Grrrl touring company “treated the Black members of the dance team differently than other members.”

Lizzo in Los Angeles in February 2024.Getty Images for The Recording Academy

Getty Images for The Recording Academy

The following month, the “Good as Hell” singer received another complaint. Asha Daniels, a fashion designer who toured with Lizzo,alleged that she fostered a “racist and sexualized” environment.

Daniels claimed that she was “witnessing myself, the dancers and the background vocalists and my local team in every city be harassed and bullied regularly,” perNBC News.

source: people.com