Lizzo made a major confession about her sex life during an appearance on Benny Blanco and Lil Dicky’s Friends Keep Secrets podcast on Tuesday (March 31). “I was a late bloomer. I lied about it for a long time,” the “About Damn Time” singer, 37, said as the hosts tried to guess her age when she lost her virginity.
“Isn’t that crazy? … 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,” she explained. She won her first Grammy Award in 2020, when the deluxe version of her Cuz I Love You album took home best urban contemporary album, along with wins for best pop solo performance for “Truth Hurts” and best traditional R&B performance for “Jerome.”
When Lil Dicky asked, “Do you think you would have stuck to that? No. Eventually you would have f–ked had you not won the Grammy?,” Lizzo said “Who knows?” She also clarified that she didn’t actually have sex the night of the Grammys, but pretty soon after. And although she made the pact with herself and was excited to achieve her goal, she wasn’t thinking about sex when she won.
“I didn’t even know that it was in my cards,” she explained when co-host Kristin Batalucco asked if the excitement of the Grammy wins was overshadowed by her excitement to have sex. “I wasn’t even really set up for that,” Lizzo said.
Dicky said he could totally relate to lying about being a virgin, relating how when he was in college and his friends would ask if he was going to have sex that weekend he would act like it was definitely going to happen, like, a lot.
The singer said she also used to lie about being a virgin, saying it was “so embarrassing.” Lizzo described having a friend group of girls who were all grilling each other one night about their sex lives and when one of them asked if she was a virgin she remembers responding with an indignant “no. I remember it was so embarrassing,” she recalled. “I said, ‘I love the D!’ I said that. It was so f–king embarrassing … I was like, ‘I love the D’ and it held me over for a little while.”
She also revealed that her first kiss was at 21, explaining that it was a religious thing as well as a Grammy thing. “When we were teenagers at my church, we all made a pact that we wouldn’t do anything before marriage,” she said. “And then, I was just so scared. No one wanted to kiss me.”
And when she did have that kiss, frankly, “it was terrible. It was a New Year’s Eve thing and he, like, forced it on me,” she said. “I was really mad and I was like, ‘My first kiss is ruined!’”
Watch Lizzo discuss her sex life on Friends Keep Secrets below.
