Daniels filed her lawsuit against the singer over a month after three dancers sued Lizzo for sexual and racial harassment.
. Daniels, a professional clothing designer, designed the wardrobe for the dancers who will be on Lizzo's 2023 tour.
"They needed two sets of costumes one-and-a-half weeks before the [first] show of their tour, which was insane, and I was able to make sure that happened with the team I was working with," she shares."Then they ordered another set of two costumes in a color wave, and from there, I just had a really great relationship with their team [and] her wardrobe manager [Nomura]. I stayed in touch and... I just had a really friendly rapport with her team.
Throughout her employment with Lizzo, the lawsuit alleges that Daniels was forced to hear"racist and fatphobic comments from Nomura," while witnessing her"mock both Lizzo and Lizzo's background dancers on multiple occasions. Nomura would allegedly imitate the dancers and Lizzo by doing an offensive stereotypical impression of a Black woman, and would also refer to Black women on the tour as 'dumb,' 'useless,' and 'fat.
The suit also alleges that Daniels witnessed Nomura, the crew and Lizzo's management team openly discussing hiring sex workers for lewd acts while on tour in Amsterdam, attending sex shows and buying hard drugs.Daniels says she took her complaints to Gugliotta. "Plaintiff also told Gugliotta that she and her local teams were victims of Nomura's verbal and physical abuse, racist comments, bullying, and withholding of accommodations.
"I questioned that because I'm the designer, I'm here to help with fittings, to help take things in, fix things if they're broken, and any time I do a fitting, I need to see something on a body," she notes."I was given a slew of reasons, and one that stood out to me the most was [Nomura] told me that Lizzo would be jealous of me," she claims.
"This is for us to start having this conversation that Black women deserve equality, [and] we deserve to be treated well in the workplace," she declares."We should be able to just be great and work hard and not have to work in an environment where we're going to be sexually harassed, where we're going to be racially discriminated against, where we're going to be abused and have micro-aggressions thrown our way.
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