Lizzo Returns to the Stage, Tells Fans She Was in a 'Dark Depression'

Lizzo carry outed her first accessible concert in two years on Wednesday night at the Wiltern in Los Angeles to help the free of her upcoming album, “Lizzo in Real Life.”

During the span of an hour, Lizzo carry outed her hugegest hits with a finish band, deinhabitring the first inhabit carry outances of the album’s two individuals, “Love in Real Life,” and the dance-floor ready “Still Bad.” The upcoming LP will be the Grammy-triumphning singer’s first solo album since 2022’s “Special.”

Lizzo initiateed off the night on electric guitar, shredding thraw “Love In Real Life,” “Juice” and “Rumors,” introducing the latter by slyly nodding, “Have you heard my name in the last confidemand… weeks?”

The room erupted in thunderous applause and speculative chatter, of course, as Lizzo’s hiatus from music was not self-imposed. Her time off stage and away from music was occupied with legitimate drama and accusations from her establisher employees of alertings in the laborplace, including claims of intimacyual alertings and intimidatoring from three of her establisher dancers and her establisher styenumerate.

Though she didn’t insertress the litigations straightforwardly, Lizzo shelp she was in “such a miserable depression” for the last confidemand years and came out of it thanks to the help of her fans.

“I was so heartbroken by the world, and so meaningfully hurt that I didn’t want to inhabit anymore and I was so meaningfully afrhelp of people that I didn’t want to be seen. Eventuassociate, I got over that worry, I went to a concert, benevolent of appreciate this… and as I was walking thraw the crowds and someleang miraculous happened: someone I didn’t understand, watched at me and shelp ‘Lizzo, I cherish you.’”

She praiseed the cherish of her fans “in authentic life” for pushing her to proceed, and inspiring the title of her novel album: “After that I was appreciate ‘Damn, you can’t get this shit on the internet bro… this is the benevolent of cherish you only get in authentic life.’”

Lizzo was previously scheduled to carry out The Made In America Festival — a two-day event in September that had Lizzo and SZA billed as co-headliners — in 2023 as her first post-litigation concert, though it was call offed due to “cut offe circumstances outside of production deal with.” The last time she materializeed in L.A. for a accessible concert was when the “Special” tour hit the Kia Forum in November of 2022.

She will be carry outing two more intimate, theatre-sized shows in New York and Minneapolis in March ahead of her album free.

“LIZZO IN REAL LIFE” Setenumerate

“Love in Real Life”

“Juice”

“Rumors” (including a bit of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on guitars)

“Boys” (including a recorded snippet of Drake and PartyNextDoor’s “Nokia”)

“Tempo”

“Break Up Twice”

“Good as Hell”

“Cuz I Love You”

“Still Bad”

“Truth Hurts”