A former wardrobe designer who labored briefly on Lizzo’s 2023 tour earlier than being dismissed filed a lawsuit on Thursday alleging that the tour’s wardrobe supervisor had created a hostile work surroundings that tour administration and Lizzo failed to handle.

Within the grievance the plaintiff, Asha Daniels, who labored on the tour for lower than a month, names Lizzo as a defendant, however doesn’t accuse her straight of harassing conduct. In a information launch accompanying the lawsuit, Ron Zambrano, her lawyer, stated, “Lizzo is the boss so the buck stops together with her.”

The submitting comes greater than a month after three of Lizzo’s former dancers, who’re additionally represented by Zambrano, sued the singer and her manufacturing firm, accusing them of making a hostile work surroundings. Lizzo has denied the allegations, and her lawyer has stated she plans to countersue. On Thursday, a spokesman for Lizzo referred to as the newest swimsuit an “absurd publicity stunt” and famous that the singer had by no means met the plaintiff.

Within the court docket papers submitted on Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom, Daniels stated she was requested to hitch the tour in early 2023 by the wardrobe supervisor, Amanda Nomura. The lawsuit alleges that all through Daniels’s employment, Nomura had made “racist and fatphobic” feedback and mocked each Lizzo and Lizzo’s background dancers “by doing an offensive stereotypical impression of a Black lady.”

The lawsuit additionally alleged {that a} backstage supervisor on the tour despatched a photograph “graphically depicting male genitalia” to a gaggle textual content message that included the plaintiff, tour administration and different crew members; the lawsuit stated the singer’s administration did not correctly deal with the message, responding to it with humor in a manner that inspired an “unsafe, sexually charged office tradition.”

The plaintiff additionally stated she was subjected to lengthy hours and regularly denied breaks, alleging that Nomura required her to be on her toes all day regardless of an ankle damage.

Makes an attempt to succeed in Nomura on Thursday weren’t instantly profitable.

In response to the lawsuit, a spokesman for Lizzo, Stefan Friedman, stated that Daniels by no means had any contact with the pop star throughout her time with the tour.

“As Lizzo receives a humanitarian award tonight from the Black Music Motion Coalition for the unbelievable charitable work she has finished to carry up all folks, an ambulance-chasing lawyer tries to sully this honor by recruiting somebody to file a bogus, absurd publicity-stunt lawsuit,” Friedman stated.

He went on, “We can pay this as a lot consideration because it deserves. None.”