Lily Allen Takes A Break From Twitter After Being Targeted By Trolls Over Son's Stillbirth
By Stephanie Chase in Music / Festivals on 27 February 2017
The singer has handed her account over to a friend after suffering vile abuse from trolls.
Lily Allen is taking some time off from Twitter, after she was attacked by online trolls for speaking about suffering post-traumatic stress disorder after the stillbirth of her son in 2010.
The singer told her followers on Saturday: “My timeline is full of the most disgusting, sexist, misogynistic, racist sh*t. Really, new levels. I'm no masochist so I'll be back x”. The account has since been taken over by her friend Dennis.
Lily Allen is taking a break from twitter
It began when Allen revealed on Twitter that she suffers from mental health issues, including ‘bi-polar, post natal depression, and PTSD’. A tweeter then asked the singer when her PTSD began.
Allen replied: “when I lay in a hospital bed with my deceased son stuck between my legs halfway out my body for 10 hours.” One Twitter user then replied: “are you saying that a British hospital left you, with a dead baby 'stuck between your legs' for 10 hours? Liar!”
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Then singer was then subjected to a barrage of vile abuse from online trolls, including one who told her: “maybe if you didn’t pump your body full of drugs you wouldn’t have miscarried.” To which Allen replied: “I didn't miscarry, I went into early labour and my son died from his chord wrapped round his neck.”
Another wrote: “Not to be a d**k but I very highly doubt it was 10 hours’". Allen replied: “You are a d**k. And it was. I was there, you weren’t.”
While she’s off twitter, Allen is still posting on Instagram. On Saturday Allen posted a photo of her two daughters Ethel and Marnie watching television on the photo sharing site and captioned it, “wake up call”.
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