Lizzo Is Getting Sued By The Food Delivery Driver She Tried To Put “On Blast” On Twitter
Lizzo took to Twitter to try and shame a Postmates driver. Now, she's being sued.
Earlier this year, Lizzo fucked up.
The ‘Truth Hurts’ singer felt stung by a Postmates delivery worker who she claimed “stole” her food. In retaliation, she shared a screenshot of the Postmates order, which included the delivery driver’s face, plus her first name and last initial.
The move was presumably an attempt both to shame Postmates into reprimanding the worker — Lizzo tagged the delivery service in the tweet — and to get the singer’s hundreds of thousands of fans to go after her.
Basically, it was about as selfish a use of fame as it is possible to imagine — a craven attempt to mobilise the support of her fans to attack someone making many hundreds of thousands a dollar year in income less than her.
The decision to share the information kicked off a massive backlash against Lizzo, so bad that the singer was eventually forced to apologise and delete her tweet.
Now, the Postmates worker has filed a suit against Lizzo, as per Pitchfork.
According to the suit, the singer made “false statements that are defamatory and are libelous.”
“Lizzo’s conduct was extreme and outrageous in that she used her celebrity to publicly defame, disparage, and threaten a private individual to roughly one million Twitter followers,” goes the rest of the suit.
The singer is yet to respond.