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After Kourtney Kardashian Barker allegedly yelled at her sister Kim’s nanny in public, Kim told her, “She’s not getting fired. I like to keep my staff for a long time. Kourtney, you can’t even keep a nanny.”
Plenty of famous people worked “normal” jobs before making it big. However, once they reach a certain level of wealth — or if they were born into it — they sometimes seemingly forget that people working non-Hollywood jobs deserve just as much respect.
Here are 13 times rich celebs were disrespectful towards people working “normal” jobs and got called out:
1. In 2019, Lizzo wrongly accused a Postmates delivery driver of taking her food. In a since-deleted (but very public tweet), she said, “Hey @Postmates this girl Tiffany W. stole my food. she lucky I don’t fight no more.”
Postmates Support replied, “Hi! We’re sorry to hear you’ve had a less than satisfactory experience on our app. Would you mind DM’ing the email address linked to your account, so we can look further into this for you?”
A spokesperson told Page Six that the driver actually did show up and waited for five minutes. However, after being unable to get ahold of Lizzo, she had to move on.
In her replies, people took the driver’s side, advising Lizzo that publicly putting her on blast probably wasn’t the best idea:
Lizzo ended up apologizing, tweeting, “I apologize for putting that girl on blast. I understand I have a large following and that there were so many variables that could’ve put her in danger. Imma really be more responsible with my use of social media and check my petty and my pride at the door.”
Tiffany ended up suing Lizzo for emotional distress, libel, and false light invasion of privacy. In her lawsuit, she said that she “feared for her physical safety” and got “direct threats of violence.” She also said that she was “scared to leave her house and as a result was forced to stop delivering as a courier altogether.”
The suit said, “[Lizzo] knew or should have known that her false and defamatory statements would be republished over and over by third-parties…Lizzo lacked reasonable grounds for any belief in the truth of her statements and acted negligently in failing to determine the true facts…[She] acted with actual malice and reckless disregard for the truth when she tweeted the false statements of or concerning [Tiffany].”
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