Lizzo Clarifies Her Stance on Taking a "Gap Year"

Why Lizzo Says "Only God" Can Cancel Her Now After Controversy

Lizzo is keeping busy.

Less than 2 months aft she announced connected Instagram, "I’m taking a spread year & protecting my peace," the 36-year-old revealed she has softly been hard astatine enactment connected her newest ventures.

"As soon arsenic I stepped down location from tour—I whitethorn not beryllium arsenic public-facing— but I went consecutive to Yitty headquarters," Lizzo said astatine the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit Oct. 14, referring to the shapewear brand she launched successful 2022 successful concern with Fabletics, "and I've conscionable been working, working, working."

The "Good arsenic Hell" singer, who had toured for 10 months until July 2023, continued, "So you mightiness not spot me, but I’ve been working. It ain't a spread year, it's a grind year."

Lizzo, whose latest philharmonic merchandise was the opus "Pink" from the Barbie soundtrack, besides said she was "very, precise close" to finishing a caller album.

She has kept a little illustration since 2023, erstwhile aft her circuit ended, three of her erstwhile backup dancers filed a lawsuit against her, accusing her of creating an “abusive enactment environment" successful which they were subjected to intersexual harassment, weight-shaming and disablement discrimination," accusations Lizzo aboriginal denied connected societal media.

And she specifically shared penetration into wherefore she didn’t privation to sermon the case.

"I don't privation to speech astir things similar that," she said. "This isn't the space—where we're celebrating pistillate CEOs and almighty women—this isn't truly the abstraction to speech astir the antagonistic things that hap to america due to the fact that truthful overmuch antagonistic worldly happens to almighty women."

The four-time Grammy victor besides shared penetration into her existent mindset erstwhile it comes to societal media.

"I've been canceled for everything astatine this point," she said, laughing. "Only God tin cancel maine now. I deliberation that I speech astir the things that are important to me, and I speech astir the things that I tin bring a quality to, and I deliberation those are my boundaries present with the public."