Lizzo's Truth is Good as Hell (Encore)
Rich and Weekly
Wondery
4.0 • 962 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
All the rumors are true! There’s only one Lizzo – and that’s not always easy. Sure, she’s young, talented, and damn hot. But while things have changed a lot with fame, some issues are still the same. Like dealing with racist, fat-shaming haters who she’s learned to survive. Nothing was ever gonna stop Lizzo from being an absolute icon, right? And now she’s looking out for all the Big Grrrls, too!
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| 0:00.0 | It's Juneteenth, Ritchie's. |
| 0:03.0 | Okay, well technically it's the day after Juneteenth, but we still want to celebrate. |
| 0:07.0 | Yeah, and today we're taking off from our daily hot goss to observe the holiday, but we will be back tomorrow |
| 0:12.4 | with the latest in |
| 0:13.4 | celebrity news. But first we want to look back at an episode that celebrated one of |
| 0:18.0 | our favorite black icons, the Queen of the Big Girls and a person who continually breaks pop music barriers, |
| 0:25.2 | Miss Lizzo herself. |
| 0:27.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:28.0 | Even though she's an inspiring star and continues to serve chart-topping bangers. |
| 0:33.2 | Lizzo's been really open with her fans |
| 0:35.4 | about the rough moments she's faced |
| 0:36.8 | as a bigger black woman in the music industry. |
| 0:39.3 | Yeah, while she's definitely a megawatt star. She still has to deal with racism and fat phobia. |
| 0:46.8 | But through it all Lizzo keeps looking past the haters. |
| 0:49.5 | Today we're revisiting an episode from earlier this year when Lizzo shared her truth with all her |
| 0:54.0 | fans and as she taught us so well sometimes truth hurts and sometimes it's good |
| 1:00.8 | as hell. So, Arisha, |
| 1:09.0 | So Arisha, we've learned a lot of lessons |
| 1:12.0 | in the last couple of years |
| 1:13.4 | with all of the fame we've gotten. |
| 1:15.1 | And I'm wondering what the hardest lesson you've learned is. |
| 1:20.6 | I mean, go to Vegas before you're famous. |
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