Singer Lizzo opened up about her tough past at the Grammys as she took home the award for best pop solo performance.
"One second!" Lizzo asked the crowd before fighting back tears.
"Today, all of my little problems that I thought were big as the world were gone," she told the crowd.
Many were remembering basketball star Kobe Bryant's untimely death earlier that day. Lizzo opened her performance by dedicating it to him.
"You guys create beautiful music, you guys create connectivity," she said as the camera panned to fellow performers, including Ariana Grande.
"This is the beginning of making music that moves people again," she said as she was bleeped out - it's unclear what exactly she told the crowd.
Lizzo, real name Melissa Jefferson, continued on to say, "I would have been sleeping in my car," about where she would be without her music.
Lizzo was homeless for a time before she found fame. In a previous NPR interview, the 'Truth Hurts' singer said, “I remember I had this epiphany that this was it. I think I was like, 21, because that was the worst year of my life thus far: My father passed away, I was homeless, I didn't have any money, my band was doing really badly and I was by myself. I hadn't been eating because I didn't have money, and I was honestly the smallest physically I'd ever been — and still, that was the worst I'd ever felt about myself."
The end of her speech managed to be just as inspiring as one of her songs. "Let's continue to hold each other down and light each other up," she told the audience.
