In an emotional Instagram Live, Lizzo spoke directly about dealing with haters and mean comments directed at her, and around her.
The singer just dropped the visual to her new song Rumors and of course, with all the attention, there are always a few who try to get under your skin.
In the video, Lizzo says that most times she doesn’t care about the comments but there are times, especially when she is working hard that her patience is low and the comments get to her.
Watch the video below:
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On Twitter she wrote:
Loving yourself in a world that don’t love u back takes an incredible amount of self-awareness & a bullshit detector that can see through ass backwards societal standards…
if u managed to love yourself today I’m proud of u.
If u haven’t, I’m still proud of u. This shits hard
This was her tweet:
Loving yourself in a world that don’t love u back takes an incredible amount of self awareness & a bullshit detector that can see through ass backwards societal standards…
if u managed to love yourself today I’m proud of u.
If u haven’t, I’m still proud of u. This shits hard
— ALL THE RUMORS ARE TRUE (@lizzo) August 15, 2021
One Twitter user called out hypocrisy:
This Lizzo convo is so funny cause when it came to Normani yall were begging for more black pop girls and now Lizzos doing that and shes getting called mammy and is “making music for white people”
— lizzo supremacist✨ (@NikkiCallowayy) August 15, 2021
Despite the negativity, Lizzo’s tweet sparked an outpouring of support, like this one from Chloe Bailey:
i’m so proud of you @lizzo people are gonna talk, but you have power in your voice. thank you for inspiring me ❤️?
— Chlöe (@ChloeBailey) August 15, 2021
and this from Cardi:
When you stand up for yourself they claim your problematic & sensitive.When you don’t they tear you apart until you crying like this. Whether you skinny,big,plastic, they going to always try to put their insecurities on you.Remember these are nerds looking at the popular table. https://t.co/jE5eJw8XP6
— iamcardib (@iamcardib) August 15, 2021
and:
Please remember that people on social media are not real relationships. These are not the people who have always loved you unconditionally and will also care about you. Many of the people trolling you don’t even love themselves.
— The Openly & Excessively Black President of Nambia (@globalerica) August 15, 2021
Then the singer posted this:
Sometimes I get sad… and then I— pic.twitter.com/o42WXVTtG1
— ALL THE RUMORS ARE TRUE (@lizzo) August 15, 2021
Sending Lizzo so much love!
