Lizzo feels better as she navigates her mental health.
The 'Good as Hell' star shared a mirror selfie on Instagram on Wednesday (May 22), giving an update on how she's feeling in the caption. “I'm the happiest I've been in 10 months,” she wrote. “The funny thing about depression is that you don't know you're in it until you're over it. I'm definitely not as carefree as I used to be.. But the dark cloud that followed me every day is finally clearing up. My smile reaches my eyes again and that's a win. I thought my album was done.. but I need to get some of these good vibes out in a burst real quick. Thank you for your patience.”
Lizzo's mental health update comes nearly two months after she took to Instagram to express her frustration at public criticism of her. “I'm tired of putting up with everyone in my life and on the internet dragging me,” she wrote against an orange and yellow background. “All I want is to make music and make people happy and help the world be a little bit better than I found it. But I'm starting to feel like people don't want me in it.”
He added: “I'm constantly faced with lies being told about me for influence and opinions… it's funny every time because of looks… my character is picked on by people who don't know me and don't respect my name. I didn't sign up for this — — REPEAT [peace out emoji].”
He then cleared things up in a subsequent post. “I just want to clarify — when I say I quit, I mean, I stopped paying attention to any negative action,” she said in the clip on Instagram. “What I'm not going to give up is the joy of my life, which is making music, connecting with people.”
The singer continued: “I know I'm not alone. In no way, shape or form am I the only person who experiences this negative voice that seems to be louder than the positive one… I'm going to keep moving forward, I'm going to keep being me.”
Lizzo has been under scrutiny for the past year as she was embroiled in a harassment lawsuit filed by three of the “Special” singer's former dancers in August 2023. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles by dancers Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez , accuses Lizzo (real name Melissa Jefferson) and Big Grrrl Big Touring Inc. for a wide range of legal offenses and included dozens of pages of detailed allegations. Lizzo denied the allegations in a response shared on Twitter, calling them “false allegations” and “shocking stories.”
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