VOGUE: TROLLS TOLD ME TO ABORT BABY
TV star and new mum reveals twisted online bullying in documentary
MODEL mum Vogue Williams has told how vile trolls told her to abort her baby.
The 32-year-old TV presenter suffered the sickening online “bullying” while pregnant with Theodore, now three weeks old.
She reveals in her new TV documentary: “Telling me to abort my baby is actually vile – that really annoyed me.
“Tons of people just tearing me down, just abusing me for no apparent reason.”
NEW mum Vogue Williams has slammed the “nasty” social media culture as modern-day bullying.
The model and TV presenter – who has a three-week-old son Theodore – is subjected to sickening abuse and told of being targeted when she was pregnant.
In her new RTE documentary, she said: “Telling me to abort my baby is actually vile… that really annoyed me.
“Trolling is modern-day bullying, it’s people who set up accounts solely for the purpose of abusing other people.
“The internet has become a free-for-all platform where accusations can be made, people can be called out, anyone can say anything about anybody anonymously.”
Vogue– who is married to reality star Spencer Matthews – is left wondering how anyone has the courage to share online after hearing how one blogger was told “I hope your kids get cancer”.
In her documentary Trial By Social Media, the 32-year-old said: “Tons of people just tearing me down, just abusing me for no apparent reason.
“I’m more annoyed today at the fact that I let it get to me. It’s 100 people telling me how fat I look in a dress and it’s like, I’m seven months pregnant. These are people sitting down and writing about things in the hope I’ll see it. You don’t even know me and that is your prerogative, your life is clearly crap. “They have nothing else to do with themselves except go online and try to make somebody else feel crap in their lives, particularly when they’re happy.” Lawyer Andrea Martin tells how she has “serious, serious concerns” about online abuse and anonymous allegations. She warns: “Defamation deals with reputation so if you damage somebody’s reputation unjustly online you can be held liable for that.” Vogue also hears from parents who confront online predators and film it live on Facebook before handing them over to gardai. One mother, who sets up a social media account as a 13-year-old, tells how she was sent child porn and asked if she wanted her first sexual encounter. By the end of the programme Vogue says: “I actually hate social media, I think it’s nasty. People have turned it into something vicious and bad.” Vogue: Trial by Social Media is on RTE Two at 9.30pm on Wednesday.
It’s people who set up these accounts solely for the purpose of abusing other people VOGUE WILLIAMS IN RTE DOCUMENTARY TRIAL BY SOCIAL MEDIA