Presley Ann/Getty is addressing the social media break she took in 2023. In an interview on that aired on Thursday, Dec. 19, the singer spoke about her relationship with the internet while breaking her silence about the she faces.
Palmer, 31, asked Lizzo, 36, how losing 150,000 followers in one day impacted her. "I was like, Oh, wow. This is the part of fame that you unknowingly sign up for," she said.
Lizzo continued, "People now will just believe anything bad about you because there's something about being a famous person that it's almost like people wanna believe that you're a bad person, and they can't believe that you're actually boring and chill and nice." WireImage Related: "But if you unfollowed me that quickly, were you even a fan?" she said, emphasizing the reason she was doing the interview. Lizzo said she wasn't doing the interview "for the 150,000 people who unfollowed me.
" "I'm doing this interview for my fans who care about me, who've stood beside me, and, the people that I've been wanting to speak to for so long," she said. Lizzo also spoke about the social media break she took from August 2023 to January 2024. "Anything that you saw was either someone on my team posted for me, or I posted real quick and threw my phone," she explained.
The "Water Me" artist said she avoided the "jokes," "memes" and "discourse" surrounding her online. "When I see things about me now, or if even if I see a word that looks like my name, I get physically unwell, and I can't take i.
