SZA Defends Lizzo From Backlash After Lawsuits: ‘It Was So Weird to See’

Everyone needs a loyal person similar SZA. The Grammy-winning vocalist has travel to the defence of her adjacent friend, Lizzo, aft aggregate harassment lawsuits were filed against the “Truth Hurts” singer.

Lizzo graced the screen of the latest contented of New York magazine connected Monday (Sept. 8), which featured SZA throwing her afloat enactment down Lizzo, portion calling retired those who turned their backmost connected the Detroit autochthonal pursuing the lawsuits.

“It was truthful weird to ticker everybody onslaught her due to the fact that it really had thing to bash with what was going on,” SZA said.

She continued to recognition the enactment Lizzo did connected herself: “I deliberation what’s peculiar astir my person is she is simply a maestro healer. She is ever going to get to the bottommost of herself. Nobody cleared her sanction for her. Nobody could springiness her that vindication; she gave it to herself. I conscionable felt similar she 100 percent genie’d herself done that.”

Lizzo was deed with a brace of lawsuits by ex-staffers successful 2023. A erstwhile wardrobe designer, Asha Daniels, accused the vocalist of harassment and discrimination, but Lizzo was dismissed from the suit.

A trio of back-up dancers besides filed a akin harassment suit against Lizzo, which includes accusations of disablement favoritism and mendacious imprisonment, and remains active.

SZA and Lizzo teamed up earlier successful 2025 connected the 37-year-old’s My Face Hurts From Smiling mixtape, and antecedently joined forces connected the “Special” remix successful 2023. Lizzo besides popped retired astatine a brace of shows connected SZA and Kendrick Lamar’s Grand National Tour.

During the remainder of the interview, Lizzo besides touched connected her shelved Love successful Real Life album, which fans shouldn’t expect anytime soon.

“I sat down astatine the array and I said, ‘I request to bash s—t my mode starting from now. And I request y’all to person my back. It’s going to beryllium a small scary,'” she said of the medium she mostly penned successful 2022. “And everybody agreed. And they said, ‘We got your back, immoderate you need.'”