One of Lizzo’s dancers – who accused the big bones pop star of abuse – is giving more details about the alleged hostile work environment she experienced while working for Lizzo. And she claims that Lizzo was so abusive, that the dancer went to the bathroom on herself!!
Arianna Davis, who was cast in the first season of Watch Out For The Big Grrrls and went on to tour with Lizzo, is making some explosive new allegations in court documents, Media Take Out has learned.
Ariana says the entire dance cast was forced to “re-audition to save our jobs” in April 2023.
She explained, “I was incredibly nervous. We were required to dance the 90-minute show from top to bottom. Lizzo was sitting, facing the stage, watching the dancers re-audition.”
Ariana says that she was “under the impression” the dancers “could not take a break and leave the stage area.”
But Lizzo was relentless, according to Arianna.
“However, I began to feel that I needed to use the restroom, but I was afraid that if I left the stage I would be fired. I continued on as long as I could, but I eventually lost control of my bladder,” Davis recalled. “I continued to dance in my soiled clothes. I felt disgusting, but I couldn’t show it on my face or in my movement, for I continued to fear losing my job.”
“During this time, I hurried backstage with the intention of changing into clean clothes. However, I realized that I had no additional clothes to change into,” the docs read.
Davis claimed she told the other dancers about her embarrassing situation. While some of them allegedly “offered their jackets to help cover me up,” another dancer ran to the wardrobe department.
“She came back with a pair of see-through shorts,” Davis, who described herself as religious and a virgin, stated in the docs. “I was mortified, but I had to put them on because my cue to go back on stage was coming up.”
“I swiftly ran to the nearest bathroom, wiped myself off, and put on the pair of see-through shorts. I continued the rest of the show exposed from the waist down. I had no underwear on, and anyone could see my behind and my torso,” Davis alleged.
Davis claimed that after the re-audition, Lizzo “simply got up and left the stage,” but her choreographer, Tanisha Scott, suggested she change into something else.
That’s when she was allegedly forced to relive the humiliating moment.
“I then had to explain to her that I could not, as I had urinated in my other clothes,” the docs read. Davis said she was eventually fired in May after Lizzo and her team discovered she had secretly recorded one of their meetings.
According to Davis, Lizzo “cursed at me and said that I f—— up big time.” The dancer claimed that the singer and her dance captain “took turns berating me in front of everybody. Lizzo ultimately fired me in front of everyone.”
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