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bombshell lawsuit brought against the “Juice” singer at her concert Tuesday night, leaving Lizzo out of her lyrics.
While singing “Break My Soul (The Queens Remix)” in Foxborough, Mass., Beyoncé repeated “Badu” in place of the flutist’s name.
Originally, the song’s lyrics read, “Rosetta Tharpe, Santigold, (Vogue) Bessie Smith, Nina Simone (Vogue), Betty Davis, Solange Knowles. Badu, Lizzo, Kelly Rowl’ (You know you can do it).”
In a Twitter video captured by a fan, however, Queen B appears to sing, “Betty Davis, Solange Knowles. Badu, Badu, Badu, Badu.”
Fans praised Beyoncé for the change, tweeting that no one “is gonna cancel her.”
“Beyoncé reiterating Badu and skipping Lizzo… that’s on hitting 2 birds with 1 stone,” another social media user wrote, referencing Erykah Badu recently accusing Beyoncé of stealing her tour looks.
Earlier that same day, news broke that three of Lizzo’s dancers are suing the performer — in addition to Big Grrrl Big Touring and Shirlene Quigley — for allegedly weight-shaming them and pressuring them to participate in disturbing sex shows.
“The stunning nature of how Lizzo and her management team treated their performers seems to go against everything Lizzo stands for publicly, while privately she weight-shames her dancers and demeans them in ways that are … absolutely demoralizing,” Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez’s attorney, Ron Zambrano, wrote in a statement.
The lawsuit claimed that in February 2023, Lizzo took her employees to Amsterdam’s Red Light District where she allegedly “pressured” and “goaded” them into “touching the nude performers, catching dildos launched from the performers’ vaginas, and eating bananas protruding from the performers’ vaginas.”
The suit also alleged that the touring company “treated the Black members of the dance team differently than other members,” citing “comments … charged with racial and fat-phobic animus.”
As the plaintiffs’ accusations made headlines, more of Lizzo’s former employees came forward on social media.
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“I’m not apart of the lawsuit – but this was very much my experience in my time there,” Courtney Hollinquest, one of the Grammy winner’s dancers, claimed via Instagram Stories Tuesday.
“Big shoutout to the dancers who had the courage to bring this to light,” she concluded.
As for Lizzo’s former creative director, Quinn Whitney Wilson, she re-posted Hollinquest’s social media upload.
“I haven’t been apart of that world for around three years, for a reason,” Wilson wrote. “I very much applaud the dancers courage to bring this to light. and I grieve parts of my own experience. I’d appreciate space to understand my feelings.”
Reps for Lizzo have yet to return Page Six’s multiple requests for comment.
