Strictly Katie’s agony as trolls taunt her over acid attack scars
SHE signed up to Strictly Come Dancing to prove that the mental and physical scars she sustained in a horrific acid attack were not going to hold her back.
But model Katie Piper has revealed that trolls mocked her injuries during her time on the BBC show – even as the man who attacked her was released from jail.
Heartless strangers cruelly called her a ‘monster’ and mocked the partial blindness and facial disfigurement she suffered.
She said: ‘I got some really horrible abuse, it was awful. I was told “You look like a monster” by someone one night. It’s so cruel. Then someone else said, “Thank goodness for make-up.”’
The mother-of-two said another mocked the fact she is 75 per cent blind in one eye. ‘Someone said to me, “Are you sure you’re not blind in both eyes, not just one? Because you definitely dance like you are.”
‘These people seem to forget I’m a human. I just wanted to scream back, “I know I can’t dance!”’
While she found the insults distressing, the 35-year-old who was voted off Strictly last weekend, said she enjoyed her time on the show and added: ‘I am just so glad to be alive.’
Recent weeks have been a constant reminder of what happened on a street near Katie’s West London home in April 2008. She was left severely scarred, blind and with a throat injury after Stefan Sylvestre hurled acid at her on the orders of her ex-boyfriend, Daniel Lynch. Sylvestre was released on October 10, but Lynch is still serving his 16-year sentence.