The 35-year-old artist mentioned in an Instagram submit on Friday night that she’s going to “stop.” Lizzo didn’t specify what she was quitting however mentioned she’s uninterested in being “dragged” on-line.
“All I would like is to make music and make individuals joyful and assist the world be a little bit higher than how I discovered it. However I am beginning to really feel just like the world does not need me in it,” Lizzo wrote.
She continued: “I am consistently up in opposition to lies being informed about me for clout and think about … being the butt of the joke each single time due to how I look … my character being picked aside by individuals who do not know me and disrespecting my identify. I did not join this shit — I stop.”
Within the feedback, celebrities like Paris Hilton and rapper Killer Mike shared phrases of encouragement.
“We love you Queen,” Hilton wrote.
Lizzo didn’t specify what “lies” or “jokes” led to her assertion.
The singer has confronted a wave of criticism and fatphobia following her determination to carry out at a reelection marketing campaign occasion for President Joe Biden on Thursday.
Some questioned her determination to carry out on the Biden occasion, contemplating his assist of Israel amid its battle in Gaza.
“Actually disenchanted in your stance selling genocide,” one commenter wrote on Instagram.
Conversely, conservative commentators shamed the Biden marketing campaign for selecting the artist to carry out amid allegations of body-shaming and sexual harassment made in opposition to her by her backup dancers in a lawsuit filed final August.
Lizzo beforehand referred to as these claims “outrageous” and “false.”
Lizzo has additionally confronted fatphobic feedback and has spoken out about how they affected her following the discharge of her track “Rumors” in 2021.
“Folks saying shit about me that simply does not even make sense. It is fat-phobic, and it is racist and it is hurtful,” the singer mentioned in 2021. “In case you do not like my music, cool. In case you do not like ‘Rumors’ the track, cool. However lots of people do not like me due to the best way I look.
Representatives for Lizzo didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.