Plus-sized pop diva Lizzo stunned fans when she abruptly quit the music business the day after her performance at President Joe Biden’s unseemly New York City fundraiser.
The controversial body positivity queen announced that she was done with it all in a goodbye cruel world post to her Instagram account on Friday, saying that she’s tired of being “dragged” by critics.
“I’m getting tired of putting up with being dragged by everyone in my life and on the internet. All I want is to make music and make people happy and help the world be a little better than how I found it,” the morbidly obese star began.
BREAKING: Lizzo quits pic.twitter.com/zc7nggiYZt
— Clown World ™ (@ClownWorld_) March 29, 2024
“But I’m starting to feel like the world doesn’t want me in it. I’m constantly up against lies being told about me for clout & views… being the butt of the joke every single time because of how I look… my character being picked apart by people who don’t know me and disrespecting my name,” Lizzo wrote. “I didn’t sign up for this sh_t. I QUIT✌”
What exactly spurred her abrupt – and likely short-lived – retirement is unknown but it comes after she performed at Biden’s star-studded fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall along with late-night propagandist Stephen Colbert, Queen Latifah, Cynthia Erivo, Ben Platt, and Lea Michele at the gala where Democrat rock stars Bill Clinton and Barack Obama posed for pictures with attendees and the money rolled in.
X users weighed in on Lizzo’s stomping off and it was brutal.
1 day after hanging out with democrats in NYC @lizzo says she quits…
Well that’s some pretty thin skin on that massive hide of hers…
— George Santos (@MrSantosNY) March 30, 2024
This is huge news. Massive. Just so big.
— pp (@ppmctweets) March 29, 2024
She could literally just lose some weight, stop shoving bananas in her employees private areas and stop trying to convince the world 700 pounds is healthy and beautiful. It’s not.
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 29, 2024
It takes everyone to drag her
— SOULTOAST (@Lord_S0ULT0AST) March 29, 2024
Think about your food bill this year with the crazy “Bidenomics” inflation. Now think about how much Lizzo must spend on food each week. She won’t be gone for long.
— Sam Wize (@SamWizen) March 30, 2024
What did she expect when she wrapped 400lbs of lard in a ribbon and paraded around making fun of other fat girls? Did she expect people to be kind to her in spite of being not only disgusting but mean?
— Much Too Old to Feel this Damn Young (@PalominoOMG) March 29, 2024
Some were skeptical that she really meant it and was just seeking attention for her quitting.
Just so you know …
Lizzo isn’t really quitting.
Her huge ego just needs some attention.
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) March 30, 2024
Narcissists often fake-quit just to get more attention. They don’t actually quit, because they can’t handle walking away from any amount of popularity.
— Alt-Market (@AltMarket1) March 29, 2024
She’s not quitting she is just looking for sympathy and will come back fatter than ever after thanking everyone for their “outpouring of love and support”
— C O M F Y F Я E И (@RealComfyfren) March 30, 2024
Tantrum over. She’ll be at her next performance on time. She’s not giving up game and money
— Downtown Fairy (@Downtownfairy) March 30, 2024
The Grammy Award winner has been dogged by controversy over claims by former dancers that she forced them to engage in sexually demeaning behavior, including pressuring them to eat a banana out of a stripper’s vagina at a live sex show.
“It’s shameful that Lizzo would be chosen to headline an event like this amid such egregious allegations,” said Ron Zambrano. the attorney representing the former dancers who are suing the singer, blasting the Democrats for featuring her at Biden’s fundraiser.
“Without getting into the politics, I can’t imagine why anyone would want Lizzo representing them in any way, given her reprehensible behavior,” he told NewsNation. “It’s just a terrible look.”
Lizzo had previously threatened to quit over people saying mean things about her.
“Y’all don’t know how close I be to giving up on everyone and quitting and enjoying my money and my man on a F–KING FARM. The Love definitely do not outweigh the Hate on social media… all because I’m fat???? This is CRAZY,” she wrote on Twitter, since renamed X, in June 2023.
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