‘Truth Hurts’ hitmaker Lizzo is asserting that lingering sexual harassment lawsuit filed by her former dancers hurts her ability to speak freely – a privilege her legal team contends is her constitutional right.

Nearly two years after her dancers filed an explosive lawsuit accusing the ‘About Damn Time’ singer of discrimination, sexual harassment, and creating a hostile work environment, her legal team has formally filed an appeal to toss the case and avoid trial all together.

Describing the complaint as an “attack” on her “First Amendment rights,” Lizzo’s lawyers argued the Pop diva should have room to creatively express herself as an artist.

“Plaintiffs’ suit [is] an attack on Lizzo’s First Amendment right to perform her music and advocate for body positivity. Rather than accept personal accountability, plaintiffs filed this shotgun action, taking aim at nearly every facet of Lizzo’s creative process,” the appeal filing reads.

Her attorneys doubled down with their own statements.

“Judges must not dissect the creative process to determine what was necessary to achieve the final product and what was not,” they said. “By rejecting the artist’s proven experience for what is necessary to, and best enhances, her own art, the trial court stepped far outside its role.”

In the past, presiding Judge Mark H. Epstein weighed in on the constitutional angle taken by the defense.

“It is dangerous for the court to weigh in, ham-fisted, into constitutionally protected activity, but is also equally dangerous to turn a blind eye to allegations of discrimination or other forms of misconduct merely because they take place in a speech-related environment,” he relayed.

Despite the statement, Epstein has yet to weigh in on the latest appeal filing.

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