Beyonce Skips Over Lizzo’s Name During ‘Break My Soul’ Performance

Update 8/3/23 at 8:25 p.m. ET

Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles, took to Instagram on Wednesday, August 2, to clap again on the accusations that her eldest daughter shaded Lizzo.

“She also didn’t say her own sisters [Solange Knowles] name yal should really stop,” Tina — who filed for divorce from estranged husband Richard Lawson late final month — commented on The Shade Room’s protection of the story.

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Beyoncé appeared to make a press release on the Renaissance World Tour following the sexual harassment allegations in opposition to Lizzo.

During her Tuesday, August 1, efficiency in Boston, Beyoncé, 41, ignored Lizzo’s identify whereas performing the music “Break My Soul (The Queens Remix).” Though Lizzo’s identify nonetheless appeared on the stage’s massive display screen together with the likes of Nina Simone, Kelly Rowland, Lauryn Hill and extra Black feminine entertainers, Beyoncé sang over the lyric by repeating Erykah Badu’s final identify 4 instances.

“Beyoncé reiterating Badu and skipping Lizzo… that’s on hitting 2 birds with 1 stone,” a fan captioned a clip of the performance by way of X (previously often known as Twitter), referring to Badu’s latest feedback that Beyoncé copied a signature black hat look of hers for the tour.

Lizzo, 35, beforehand shared a clip of her tearful response to listening to Beyoncé sing her identify throughout one of many tour’s Poland performances. “In that moment I was thinking about baby me, listening to Happy Face by destiny’s child and crying myself to sleep because of bullies,” Lizzo captioned the June Instagram clip.

She continued: “I thought about Beyoncé jumping into the room where Tina Turner was waiting to meet her for the first time. I think of what we all mean to people and how cyclical it is. We are all so infinitesimally and maximally connected and significant. It’s an honor. Thank You @beyonce 💖.”

Beyoncé made her delicate dig the identical day Lizzo (actual identify Melissa Jefferson) was sued by three former dancers — Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez — for sexual harassment, non secular harassment, incapacity discrimination, making a hostile work setting and extra. The swimsuit additionally names Lizzo’s tour firm, Big Grrrl Big Touring, Inc. (BGBT), and dance captain Shirlene Quigley.

According to courtroom paperwork obtained by Us Weekly on Tuesday, the dancers alleged that Quigley made a number of feedback about Davis’ virginity and made the group “uncomfortable” by simulating “oral sex on a banana in front of the rest of the dance cast.”

While competing on the fact competitors collection Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, Davis and Williams declare they had been required to take part in a nude photograph shoot and feared they’d be despatched dwelling in the event that they refused. Lizzo additionally invited her dancers to an outing in Amsterdam’s Red Light District. The group felt “obligated” to attend resulting from worry of dropping their jobs.

“While at Bananenbar, things quickly got out of hand. Lizzo began inviting cast members to take turns touching the nude performers, catching dildos launched from the performers’ vaginas, and eating bananas protruding from the performers’ vaginas,” the lawsuit states. “Lizzo then turned her attention to Ms. Davis and began pressuring Ms. Davis to touch the breasts of one of the nude women performing at the club.”

Other allegations embrace dancers not being allowed to work different jobs whereas on break from tour, Davis being fired after allegedly filming a dance group assembly and Lizzo appearing “aggressively” towards Rodriguez after she confronted the singer about Davis and Williams’ firings.

“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 not only illegal but absolutely demoralizing,” legal professional Ron Zambrano in a press release on Tuesday. Lizzo has but to publicly deal with the lawsuit.