Lizzo’s mother breaks down into happy tears when a pop star surprises her with a new car for Christmas

This is one of the benefits of being a successful pop star.

On Sunday, five days before Santa arrived, Lizzo surprised her mother, Shari Johnson-Jefferson, and gave him a new car for Christmas.

‘My mother Audi got a new Audi for Xmas,’ the singer, 32, said on Instagram along with a video of the emotional gift moment that saw her mother shed tears of joy over her daughter ‘s generosity.

The video begins with Johnson-Jefferson led outside her home with her eyes closed as several family members appeared to be expecting.

‘Okay, Christmas courtship – open your eyes,’ said Lizzo (born Melissa Viviane Jefferson) from behind the camera with joy just as her mother is led to turn left.

With her hands gently tied together, her mother opened her eyes and began to cry at the sight of her new black Audi which ended with a red bow on top of the front hood.

‘Oh God, thank you very much,’ she said as she stepped in at once to give her daughter a big lump. ‘Oh my God.’

‘I got you an Audi girl,’ rapper Truth Hurts explained as family members clapped and cheered in the background. ‘Sin Audi; you can’t see the circles [emblem] on – come on! ‘

With the happy tears still flowing, Johnson-Jefferson walked towards the car for a closer look and admitted: ‘You don’t expect this to happen to you,’ which caused an emotional outburst, ‘ ahhhhh, ‘from Lizzo.

‘I remember crying in my car when my father passed away, with no work and no money to live on, wishing I could one day prepare for my family,’ said Lizzo in the caption.

‘I couldn’t do it for my dad so make sure I spoil Mama. Happy holidays y’all. ‘

Lizzo’s father, Michael Jefferson, died in 2010 while a student of music scholarship at the University of Houston. Her death threw her into a deep mood.

‘Well I let her go,’ she admitted in an interview with CBS This morning in January.

‘I was depressed. I had no reason, like I didn’t feel like I had a reason to be a musician or anything. So he turned in, “Oh can I sleep on your cup,” and finally got really guilty. So I only had this car. It was a Subaru. ‘

She said, ‘That was my home for a while. I spent Thanksgiving in that car, and I remember calling myself to sleep. ‘

In a happy birthday post to her late father in September 2019, Lizzo thanked him for ‘showing me my power’, and for reminding him not to be afraid of that power. ‘

‘I still struggle with fear and anxiety … it’s hard every day … but I know I can give you my fear, and that you will always be there to protect me from above. ‘

Undoubtedly, Lizzo would have made her father proud with her meteoric rise as a top card artist with three Grammy Awards, a Billboard Award, a BET Award, two iHeartRadio Music Awards and two Soul Train Music Awards from 2019.