Lizzo revealed that she lost her virginity after winning three Grammy Awards in 2020, honoring a longtime pact she made with herself.
Appearing on the Friends Keep Secrets podcast, Lizzo made the confession to hosts Benny Blanco, Lil Dicky, and Kristin Batalucco. During a broad-ranging conversation on the podcast, Lizzo, now 37, acknowledged, “I was a late bloomer. I lied about it for a long time.”
She added of the decision to finally have sex, “I wasn’t even thinking about it. For me, I just promised myself when I was younger that I wouldn’t have sex until I won a Grammy.”
Lil Dicky asked, “Do you think you would have stuck to that? No. Eventually you would have fucked had you not won the Grammy.”
Lizzo replied, “Who knows.” She said the night she lost her virginity “was not the night of the Grammys” but it was soon after. She wasn’t, however, thinking about it when she won.
“I didn’t even know that it was in my cards,” she said. “I wasn’t even really set up for that.”
Lizzo won her first Grammy in 2020. She took home three awards that night: Best Pop Solo Performance for “Truth Hurts,” Best Urban Contemporary Album for the deluxe version of Cuz I Love You, and Best Traditional R&B Performance for “Jerome.” She admitted that she used to tell everyone she had had sex and now feels like there is “a weight off of my chest.”
She recalled lying in the past, including to friends during college. “I was in a friend group of girls. We were all girling one night, and it was like, ‘Wait, Lizzo, are you a virgin?’” she recalled. “And I remember being like, ‘No!’ I was remember it was so embarrassing. I said, ‘I love the D.’ I said that. I was so embarrassing. And it held me over for a little while.”
Lizzo also shared that she didn’t have her first kiss until she was 21, in part for “religious” reasons. “When we were teenagers at my church, we all made a pact that we wouldn’t do anything before marriage,” she shared. “And then, I was just so scared. No one wanted to kiss me.”
When it finally did happen, it wasn’t great. “I was actually very upset about it,” Lizzo said. “Because it was like a New Year’s Eve thing, and he like forced it on me. I was really mad, and I was like, ‘My first kiss is ruined.’ I was so mad.”
Lizzo’s most recent album, Love in Real Life, dropped last year. The singer took a self-described “gap year” in 2024 before jumping back into music.
