PDS 8.2 Disturbing Lizzo Scandal, Allegations, & Lawsuit Details Disgust Fans, Taylor Swift, & Today's News
The Philip DeFranco Show
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🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're talking about in breaking down the shocking lawsuit and allegations against Lizzo. |
| 0:04.5 | The world's most obvious con man is getting shipped back to America. |
| 0:07.4 | What people want Taylor Swift to cancel her L.A. concerts. |
| 0:10.1 | America's first religious public school is in trouble. |
| 0:12.7 | Belarus is playing with fire. |
| 0:14.5 | We're going to talk about all that and so much more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news. |
| 0:20.1 | So hit that like button and let's just jump into it. |
| 0:22.6 | Starting with Lizzo is in some hot ass water right now. With three of her former dancers filing a lawsuit |
| 0:27.5 | yesterday where among other complaints, they accused her of sexual harassment, body shaming, and running a hostile work environment. |
| 0:33.0 | And this seeming to directly contradict that Lizzo is known for being a champion of body positivity, |
| 0:37.4 | inclusivity, self-love, and overall empowerment. Right, so let me dive into the allegations |
| 0:41.1 | and this 37-page complaint for you. Starting with the sexual harassment claims. With one of the |
| 0:45.0 | claims involving a night where Lizzo invited the dancers to a club in Amsterdam's Red Light |
| 0:48.4 | District that featured nude performers, though allegedly she did not make a clear up front, |
| 0:52.0 | that was the plan. So by the time everyone everyone found out that was where they were going they felt like they couldn't back out even if they felt uncomfortable and the suit adding that once they were there lizzo began inviting cast members to take turns touching the nude performers catching dildos launched from the performer's vaginas and eating bananas protruding from the performer specifically around the touching that involved pressuring one dancer to touch the breast of a performer despite her repeatedly saying she didn't want to. |
| 1:14.6 | So Lizzo allegedly even started a chant to goad that dancer into doing it until the dancer cave. |
| 1:18.6 | Lizzo also allegedly pressuring a member of the security stage to go on stage where his pants were later pulled down with a lawsuit claiming |
| 1:23.6 | that plaintiffs were aghast with how little regard Lizzo showed for the bodily |
| 1:27.6 | autonomy of her employees and those around her. And the complaint saying this was not some one-off |
| 1:31.4 | kind of incident. There was also allegedly another night in Paris where Lizzo invited everyone out, |
| 1:35.0 | but didn't make the plans clear. So the dancers didn't know until they were seated in a club |
| 1:38.2 | and the curtains were pulled that they were attending a nude cabaret show. Then regarding the body shaming, you had one dancer saying that Lizzo and her choreographer called a meeting where they noted the dancer seemed less committed to a role, which |
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