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Lizzo Reacts to ‘South Park’ Joke Naming Ozempic Alternative After Her

Lizzo is reacting to South Park referencing her of their newest particular, The Finish of Weight problems, centered on weight reduction medicine.

In a blind response video posted on her Instagram, the “About Rattling Time” singer shared her ideas on the long-running animated collection’ new episode, which premiered Friday.

“Guys, my worst concern has been actualized,” she mentioned at the start. “I’ve been referenced in a South Park episode. I’m so scared.”

Lizzo proceeded to play the clip that incorporates a dialog between Sharon and Sheila, the mothers of Stan and Kyle. Sharon explains that her physician wouldn’t prescribe her any weight reduction drugs like Ozempic as a result of she doesn’t have diabetes, nevertheless, “there’s a complete new weight problems drug for these of us who can’t afford Ozempic and Mounjaro.”

Sharon reveals she managed her “cravings to be thinner” with a pretend drug known as Lizzo.

Because the “Fact Hurts” artist drops her jaw and covers her mouth, seemingly in shock, an upbeat remedy industrial begins taking part in for Lizzo.

“FDA-approved Lizzo makes you be ok with your weight, and it prices 90 p.c lower than Ozempic. … In case research, 70 p.c of sufferers on Lizzo not cared how a lot they weighed,” the narrator of the pretend industrial mentioned. “Lizzo helps you eat the whole lot you need and hold bodily exercise to a minimal. … Ask in regards to the energy of not giving a fuck with Lizzo.”

As soon as the footage concluded, Lizzo mentioned in response, “That’s loopy. I simply really feel like rattling, I’m actually that bitch.”

“I actually confirmed the world love your self and never give a fuck, to the purpose the place these males [South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone] in Colorado know who the fuck I’m, and put it on their cartoon that’s been round for 25 years,” she continued. “I’m actually that bitch, and I present you not give a fuck and I’ll hold displaying you not give a fuck.”

South Park: The Finish of Weight problems is presently streaming on Paramount+.

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Lizzo Thanks Activists in Palestine, Offers Support for College Protests

Lizzo stated Monday she wished to increase a “private thank-you” to activists working towards genocides in Palestine, Sudan and the Congo, additionally saying scholar protests in the US are “deeply essential.”

In a video posted to Instagram which the singer famous was “lengthy overdue,” Lizzo stated she needed “to take a second and provides a private thank-you to the entire activists who’ve been working tirelessly to assist the liberation and the liberty of the individuals who have been genocided everywhere in the world, particularly Palestine, Sudan and the Congo.”

The “2 Be Cherished” singer went on to notice that she “has labored carefully with activists” previously and thus is aware of “the toll it may possibly take in your psychological and your bodily [health], and it may possibly really feel thankless,” she stated. “So for those who haven’t heard as we speak, thanks. Your work isn’t in useless. You could have helped so many individuals; you have got saved literal lives.”

She went on to supply a “life replace” concerning her comparatively quiet public picture over the past 12 months, saying: “I used to be in a deep darkish melancholy. I had some psychological well being crises and episodes over the past 9 months, and I used to be not current.”

In August and September, a number of of Lizzo’s former dancers accused the singer of sexual harassment and different office grievances in a sequence of complaints which can be reportedly now on maintain whereas Lizzo appeals a ruling that allowed the case to maneuver ahead. Months after denying the claims, she posted a cryptic message on-line in March, telling followers, “I stop” (she later clarified that she was not quitting music, however relatively, “I stop giving any detrimental power consideration.”)

“Between the loss I skilled in my private life and the state of the world, I had been rendered into an emotional state the place I can’t course of or deal with something. It was very darkish,” Lizzo continued on Monday. “I’m not saying this to make excuses, nor do I need sympathy. I simply haven’t been in a position to be clear with y’all in a very long time.”

She went on to say it was the onerous work of activists across the globe who’ve motivated her to get again to herself. “Y’all have actually motivated me to get my ass up and get again to who I’m,” she stated.

She completed her message with a shoutout to the numerous “anti-genocide, anti-war” scholar protests going down on campuses across the nation, saying “what these college students have finished and are doing is so deeply essential. I can’t even categorical it in a single video.”

Lizzo additionally cited the work of Operation Olive Department, a grassroots support group supporting households in Palestine. She stated she would converse with different activists and return quickly with “extra data on how one can assist these ongoing genocides on the earth, as a result of we ain’t free till all of us free.”