In a collection of TikTok posts, a girl named Brooklyn Elizabeth Brown informed the story of the dissolution of her ten-year relationship and the way she labored to heal from that loss. Her heartbreak was concurrently common and sensationalistic, as she revealed that she had been along with her boyfriend, Myke Wright, for a decade, together with in the course of the time when he met his present girlfriend, Lizzo.
Brooklyn Elizabeth Brown, the ex-girlfriend of Lizzo’s boyfriend Myke Wright, defined how he left her for the singer.
Brown posted a video to TikTok titled, “My Lizzo story.” She filmed herself sitting on a sofa, recounting the main points of an expertise she had by no means shared publicly, till now. She acknowledged at the beginning of the recording, “I first met Lizzo late 2016, 2017-ish. She and my boyfriend have been co-hosting a present on MTV referred to as ‘Wonderland.’”
Brown defined that Lizzo “wasn’t very good” to her, saying, “I knew she didn’t like me… I form of ignored it as a result of I felt like, you understand, she’s already on this movie star scene or no matter, so she in all probability simply seems like she has higher issues to do than speak to me.”
She clarified that even when encountered Lizzo exterior of the present’s manufacturing, “Even once we have been simply out to eat or on the seashore or one thing, she nonetheless wasn’t very good to me… She didn’t say something that was imply however she was actually, like, standoffish or like, wouldn’t speak to me, you understand, like, after I talked to her, it was form of like, ‘Oh okay, get the f–ok away from me, I don’t need to speak to you.’”
As Brown defined, she “finally discovered that she and my boyfriend had one thing occurring — ex-boyfriend — and that was that. I left the connection. I imply, yeah, it was heartbreaking. I used to be with him for ten years. I supported him by means of every thing and when he lastly received an enormous break, he left me for Lizzo.”
She laughed barely, then continued describing the emotional fall-out of leaving her longtime accomplice, after discovering his affair with a rising movie star.
“It was actually laborious for my psychological well being,” Brown stated. “I went by means of a extremely troublesome time frame, making an attempt to be okay with this, as a result of it wasn’t similar to, ‘Oh, I broke up with my boyfriend,’ it was like, ‘Oh, I broke up with my boyfriend and he left me for an individual who wasn’t very good to me… [and] after we broke up, she grew to become a Grammy Award-winning movie star.’”
Brown spoke to the dissonance she felt, evaluating her private expertise with Lizzo in opposition to Lizzo’s public message of affection and inclusivity.
She additionally provided very legitimate causes as to why she determined to not communicate up earlier about her expertise. She stated, “Everyone on this planet loves her, and her message is like, ‘Love and light-weight and positivity,’ after figuring out how she handled me, however I… didn’t need to say something as a result of it made me sound like a whiny little child or one thing. So, I didn’t.”
“I didn’t broadcast that that was one thing that occurred to me, or after I did discuss it, I by no means named her, as a result of I simply didn’t really feel like I might be supported or folks would care,” she stated. “Folks liked her, so why would I attempt to like, drag her identify, or no matter.”
Brown struggled to maneuver on after her break-up, as Lizzo’s rising fame was a permeating pressure, reminding her of what she’d misplaced.
“I simply silently went by means of one thing actually large and actually laborious,” she stated. “It was like my struggle or flight response was triggered each time I heard her tune on the radio or like if I went to the films, and like, her tune was within the trailer. It was so troublesome and I cried for thus lengthy and I felt so depressed and I used to be in a extremely dangerous spot for years due to how this occurred.
Brown described the burden of the heartache she carried, but made it clear that she didn’t blame Lizzo for her ex-boyfriend’s habits.
“I do know it wasn’t her fault. It wasn’t her fault. It was his fault. It was the best way he dealt with it,” she acknowledged. “She has no accountability to me. However I feel they may have each been a bit of extra type in the best way that they selected to get collectively. He may have damaged up with me or she may have possibly advised that he break up with me earlier than they began one thing, as a result of the textual content messages have been one thing that I’ll by no means have the ability to not see in my head.”
In the direction of the top of the publish, Brown expressed the rawness of her feelings, explaining, “That is the primary time I’ve ever been capable of freely communicate on it and really feel like folks will hear what I’m saying and never similar to, come at me for saying one thing about somebody that they actually like.”
Brown’s expertise highlights that sure wounds keep open and that full closure is usually elusive.
She described how the general public’s shifting opinion of Lizzo confirmed the validity of the ache she had gone by means of.
“It seems like this validation — and I attempt to be a great particular person, I attempt to let issues go, forgive, simply transfer on, however some issues simply persist with you, till it will get lifted off of your spirit,” she stated. “And I really feel like this can be a second the place it’s gotten lifted off of my spirit that she’s not every thing that she’s been saying she is and I’ve identified that for a very long time.”
“Now that it’s coming to gentle, who she actually is and the way she actually operates, it’s similar to vindication,” Brown continued. “It’s like, what I went by means of was actual and I don’t should be quiet about it anymore, I don’t should be embarrassed about it anymore. It’s true. It’s true. I’ve seen it. It’s actual, and now I can like, put these emotions apart and similar to, actually transfer on.”
“I assume I by no means actually thought I wanted that, however I did. I’m realizing that I did,” she declared by means of tears, as if she was discovering peace in real-time. Brown ended her publish by providing what she’d in the end discovered by means of all of it: “Simply be type.”
“Construct your character and be type,” she stated. “Function from a spot of affection, love your self, and whenever you really love your self, that may lengthen itself to different folks. Be the identical particular person exterior as you’re in privateness behind closed doorways. Don’t attempt to construct your self up in a faux persona.”
She touched briefly on the advanced points surrounding movie star presence, the toxicity of fame, and what it means to be human, stating, “We’re actually not taking a look at… how folks truly dwell their lives.”
“It’s okay to get these motivational moments or these inspirational messages from folks,” she clarified. “Take the message. Apply it to your self. You’re sensible. You realize what’s proper and what’s true for you. So take these issues and allow them to make you a greater particular person, however don’t ever idolize messengers.”
“Don’t ever idolize messengers,” Brown reiterated, earlier than expounding a message of true self-love and acceptance. “You do it for your self. You work these issues out for your self. You set your course, you set your path. You do the issues that you just imagine in and don’t assume that simply because another person is saying it, that they’re higher than you, or something like that. We’re all human. Don’t overlook that.”
Brown made a second TikTok publish, responding to questions she acquired in regards to the revelatory data she’d shared.
“First issues first, cease saying imply s–t about Lizzo’s physique within the feedback,” she declared. “That’s completely out of line… She’s an actual particular person… That’s unacceptable.”
Brown went on to clarify why she determined to inform her story on a public discussion board, coinciding with the timing of the lawsuit in opposition to Lizzo. As she framed it, “If my expertise have been your personal, you went by means of the toughest time of your life and also you by no means actually received to share with anybody and also you attempt to take the excessive highway and simply transfer on and do the appropriate factor after which, the universe provides you a wild draw-four card, like, ‘your transfer.’ What would you could have performed, in case you have been me? Significantly, what would you could have performed?”
“My ego wished this, however actually, my spirit feels a lot lighter and I simply really feel so significantly better, so I’ve no regrets,” she acknowledged. She additionally addressed a perception expressed by many individuals within the feedback, which is that Lizzo had no obligation to be good to her.
“After I say she wasn’t good to me, I imply she had a nasty angle,” she stated. “And it was alienating as a result of she and my boyfriend would really like, go off, and they might have like, the large group, and I might form of be off to the facet… I wasn’t a part of their factor, and I didn’t know why, and due to that, it triggered a variety of confusion on my finish. I used to be like, why am I being handled like this… and he wasn’t any higher. He was equally accountable.”
Brown defined why she got here ahead along with her story, saying, “I simply thought it was related to what’s occurring now due to folks feeling like they’re stunned at who she is now and I used to be simply making an attempt to speak that I noticed that kind of power in her earlier than, and I saved it to myself.”
She acknowledged that her intention isn’t to border Lizzo as a intentionally malicious particular person, saying, “I’m not even making an attempt to love, make Lizzo a nasty particular person or something. It was simply what occurred to me.”
Brown ended her publish by calling consideration to the assist she’d acquired from sharing the story of her breakup. As she stated, “The kindness in your feedback actually meant one thing to me.”
As one particular person declared within the feedback, “There is no such thing as a time restrict on talking on traumatic issues that occurred to you.”
Everybody finds peace in their very own method, on their very own timeline. Brown may face criticism for telling her story, but it’s clear that giving voice to the hurt she skilled allowed her a specific amount of therapeutic.
Alexandra Blogier is a author on YourTango’s information and leisure crew. She covers movie star gossip, popular culture evaluation and all issues to do with the leisure business.
