The singer called out all the critics during her acceptance speech, just days after a comedian made humiliating remarks about her in a viral interview.
Lizzo set the record straight through her recent message to critics at the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday night.
On Monday, the 34-year-old “About Damn Time” singer clarified that his comments were not directed at anyone.
“Let me get one thing obvious – I didn’t speak to anyone in my speech last night. I reach out to EVERYONE,” she wrote on Twitter. Accepting her award in the Great Video category on Sunday, Lizzo thanked fans for “supporting and loving me” before citing her criticism.
“And now for the bitches who have something to say about me in the media,” she said, referring to Nicki Minaj’s nearly identical opening ceremony for the 2015 VMAs. “You know what? I’m not going to say anything.”
“They said, ‘Lisa, why don’t you clap?’ Why don’t you clap? Cause bitch I won, hoes!” Face said with thunderous applause. “Big bitch wins, ho! The best revenge is your paper bitch!”
He later posted a clip of his speech to his Twitter account, mischievously writing, “KEEP MY NAME ON YO MOUF BECAUSE I KNOW SO BITCH” Many believe the “Truth Hurts” singer’s message was a response to comedian Iris Spears’ body-shaming statement about his earlier days in an interview with The Art of Dialogue which has since gone viral.
When asked about Lizzo’s music, Spears said, “I can’t get over the fact that she looks like an s—emoji,” she replied. “She has a lovely face, but she keeps showing her body. Like, come on?’
“Sorry, listen,” he said, explaining that while he wasn’t “at his best”, he was “funny, proud and confident and at least looks decent” to attract the opposite sex.
“At least I think I’m handsome,” he said, adding, “A woman who is like a plate of mashed potatoes is in trouble.”
He then called out the “hypocrisy” of women who praised self-confidence and “fraternity” but did not address health risks such as “diabetes”, “heart problems”, “heart disease”, and “cholesterol”. “You’re all going to say I’m kidding, but you’re not going, to be honest and say, ‘Sister, put that eclair down. That’s not it. Treadmill time.”