Richy Jackson speaks on toxic behavior allegations

[Julien Lockhart 826]

Love how they remind us that one of the dancer has dancing for the chromatica ball and how they wanted to know the dancers version and glad one of them told she goes during ARTRAVE

 

Page six has done their job

[Noah X 5,250]

Or he could be innovative like Colleen and do a choreography apology video

[DpHitch1992 1,158]

6 minutes ago, Why am I on GGD said:

And sadly Richy seems very keen on staying with her. Which is ironic, considering his shtick about the dancers feeling too attached to Gaga as their main employer.

This! It's so ironic it's ridiculous.

What other artist's has he worked with apart from Jojo and Gaga for the last decade??  None! And that's ok. But don't slam the dancers for doing the same thing Richy.

[Knife 6,800]

I would trust him more if his choreography was better.

[vanna shintuyu 10,402]

10 minutes ago, Nedster said:

Or he could be innovative like Colleen and do a choreography apology video

what the hell is wrong with you

[faysalaaa 3,987]

These dancers are not relying on Gaga, they work with other big artists too, and they understand they arent gonna get the same job all the time.

So his claim that they accused him of all this because their ego is hurt and are embarrassed is weird.

Its also dancers that havent been working with Gaga for years that made accusations, like Michael.

[vanna shintuyu 10,402]

he seriously ruins her entire image of being anti-abuse.

[Papergangstuh 2,635]

I think there's truth to him being toxic but legally in terms of solid proof there isn't much to stand on, plus most people just write off this type of work mindset as tough love/work hard/boss babe bs

I'm surprised her team let him talk, which is why I think something is coming soon to cover up whatever drama this article may cause 

[LilyLark 10,060]

I dislike Richy, but was genuinely disturbed by how many were willing to slam him with sexual assault allegations based off a fan claiming a dancer DM'd them (when the DM looked like it was written by someone who didn't speak English, and the dancer was American). Not to mention Rolling Stone investigated and found nothing about sexual assault, and Rolling Stone has insinuated stuff about Drake so if it was there...something would have happened.

IDK, something about a bunch of mostly yt gays accusing a Black gay man of sexual assault when there wasn't even an accusation-just a fake looking DM that a FAN produced-was very gross. Even more gross that people kept doing it after Rolling Stone investigated.

Edit: Someone is saying the fan claimed the DM was from the dancer Silas, whom I follow. He is German, but he seems to have a very good grasp of English (I follow him on instagram and he often writes long posts). He's not fluent, but he's clearly far better at English than that DM that was allegedly sent to a stan. He also praised Gaga on IG recently. I still maintain that it seems incredibly unlikely he sent a DM that sounded like a stan who barely spoke English to a 'stan' saying he had never told anyone about the SA before but...decided to tell a random little monster? Especially because HE himself has never said a word, and Rolling Stone could have reported on allegations about a sexual assault without naming names...but did not.

[Head Empty 24,838]

43 minutes ago, Nedster said:

Or he could be innovative like Colleen and do a choreography apology video

"I'm everyone's favorite choreographer and those stinky dancers are the worst!"

[LilyLark 10,060]

I...actually don't think Richy is working with Gaga anymore. Page Six is kind of conservative, even if it is a gossip rag, and has gone hard after Gaga in the past. Her PR tends towards People and ET, too, so if this was okay-d by Gaga's camp I feel like he would have spoken to one of those outlets.

I think he's trying to shine up his reputation a bit after everything. There were long term dancers who defended him, too, so idk about the whole thing. I absolutely buy he was toxic and Gaga should fire him, but I feel like fans went way overboard (see the above sexual assault thing).

[LilyLark 10,060]

32 minutes ago, Papergangstuh said:

I think there's truth to him being toxic but legally in terms of solid proof there isn't much to stand on, plus most people just write off this type of work mindset as tough love/work hard/boss babe bs

I'm surprised her team let him talk, which is why I think something is coming soon to cover up whatever drama this article may cause 

Her PR tends to run to People or ET. Page Six has gone hard after Gaga in the past. If anything, I feel like this an indication that she finally let him go and this is a) him trying to shine his reputation up a bit and/or b) a sign to Ga's team he's willing to blab if Gaga doesn't cut him a fat check.

And yes, I agree with what you said about toxic behavior. Like people want to ignore it, but Rolling Stone had a lot of dancers who also defended him and said he was no more toxic than most lead choreographers in that world. He sounds like a terrible person, but he also doesn't sound like he crossed any legal lines...which is why I thought it was insane stans thought Ga would fire him 2 weeks before TCB.

[Controversiaga 10,240]

52 minutes ago, Nedster said:

Or he could be innovative like Colleen and do a choreography apology video

This would’ve been revolutionary 

[Noah X 5,250]

5 minutes ago, Why am I on GGD said:

"I'm everyone's favorite choreographer and those stinky dancers are the worst!"

 

"if it wasnt for me you wouldnt have the iconic Superbowl"

"so all these dancers need to lay off, and get a job"

"cause I'm working with Gaga until she's 60"

[MOT 2,921]

A couple of things.

There was an established long-term team of dancers there - and that's Gaga's style, Haus etc - and then out of the blue Richy just decides that a bunch of them are no longer suitable ? I struggle with that.

The bit about them being sort of fixated with Gaga doesn't make sense to me. Yes, between touring and Vegas there was plenty of Gaga work over the years, but fulltime it was not, and they all had to eat.

There has to be something behind the timing of this (but I don't know what). Richy says he wanted to wait till TCB was over. Well yeah, but it's been over for quite a while at this point.

Finally, on the overall question, stick with Richy or not, I don't know enough, and it wasn't my call, it was Gaga's. She couldn't just take the dancers' word for it, and she couldn't just take Richy's word for it, she had to investigate and make a call, and the call could have gone either way, but she couldn't ride both horses.