Lizzo has revealed she kept a vow to remain a virgin until she “won a Grammy”.
During an appearance on the Friends Keep Secrets podcast on Tuesday, the singer-songwriter shared that she waited until she was in her thirties to have sex.
“I was a late bloomer. I lied about it for a long time,” she told co-hosts Benny Blanco, Lil Dicky, and Kristin Batalucco. “Isn’t that crazy? I wasn’t even thinking about it… I just promised myself when I was younger that I wouldn’t have sex until I won a Grammy. I’m so deada*s (serious).”
The Juice hitmaker, real name Melissa Jefferson, divulged that she lost her virginity in 2020 – not long after she won her first three Grammy Awards in January 2020.
“I feel a weight off of my chest right now,” the 37-year-old continued. “It was so embarrassing. I was in a friend group of girls. We were all girl-ing one night and it was like, ‘Wait, Lizzo, are you a virgin?’ I remember, it was so embarrassing. I said, ‘I love the D.’ I said that. And it held me over for a little while.”
Elsewhere in the conversation, Lizzo revealed how her first kiss took place when she was 21.
“Ya’ll have no idea. It was religious for me too. Like, when we were teenagers at my church, we all made a pact that we wouldn’t do anything before marriage. And then, I was just so scared. Like, nobody wanted to kiss me,” she explained. “It was a New Year’s Eve thing, and he forced it on me. I was really mad and I was like, ‘My first kiss is ruined.’ I was so mad.”
The About Damn Time star has been in a relationship with Myke Wright since 2022.
Lizzo has reportedly completed work on her fifth studio album, Love in Real Life. A release date has not yet been confirmed.
