Lizzo has been reduced to tears after being subjected to ruthless racist abuse following the release of her new music video.
Per People, the 33-year-old three-time Grammy Award-winning musician wept over the hurtful trolls on social media who had criticized her appearance following the release of her new music video 'Rumors' with Cardi B.
Watch Lizzo and Cardi B's new music video below:The music video appears to allude to the Disney animated film Hercules; featuring Lizzo dressed in a toga and dancing in an ancient Greek setting which appears to mimic that of The Muses.
However, in an extended Instagram Live video, Lizzo spoke about how much the cruel comments made by trolls had distressed her over the weekend.
Struggling to hold back tears, she told fans: "People who have something mean to say about you, and for the most part it doesn't hurt my feelings, I don't care. I just think when I'm working this hard, my tolerance gets lower, my patience is lower. I'm more sensitive, and it gets to me."
Take a look at Lizzo's emotional video right here:She continued to state that, although she understands that not everyone will like and appreciate her music, she finds it unhelpful when others criticize her body and appearance.
Lizzo added: "It's fatphobic, it's racist, and it's hurtful. What I won't accept is y'all doing this to Black women over and over and over again, especially us big Black girls.
"When we don't fit into the box that you want to put us in, you just unleash hatred onto us. It's not cool.
"I'm doing this s*** for the big Black women in the future who just want to live their lives without being scrutinized or put into boxes."
She then addressed these same concerns in a follow-up tweet addressed to her 1.6 million followers on Twitter, writing: "Loving yourself in a world that don't love u back takes an incredible amount of self awareness & a bulls*** detector that can see through a** backwards societal standards…
"If u managed to love yourself today I'm proud of u. If u haven’t, I'm still proud of u. This s*** hard. [sic]"