After a barrage of online harassment and false claims of plastic surgery,The Boysactress Erin Moriarty has announced she will be quitting social media for the foreseeable future.
Although the internet can be an incredible place, it can be equally as terrible and that is the case forThe Boysactress Erin Moriarty who has been the victim of online abuse after starring in the hit show. Despite even the show’s creator telling misogynistic fans to “eat a back of d**ks”, it is yet to stop the harassment and even American journalist Megyn Kelly has reportedly joined in on the onslaught.
On an episode ofThe Megyn Kelly Showpodcast that aired earlier this month, Kelly used Moriarty as an example of young people who turn to plastic surgery.
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The actress is best known for her role inThe Boys.
“More and more young women are doing this,” Kellysaid. “It’s not about an objection to plastic surgery, it’s about an obsession with turning yourself into this fake version of yourself… I find it like a sign of mental illness. I really want to get in the heads of these young girls and say, ‘Please don’t do this.'”
As a result, the actress who plays Starlight inThe Boystook to Instagram to defend herself as well as taking the time to reveal the end of her social media presence.
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“This is something I truly never anticipated writing,”readthe statement. “We’re all subject to levels of bullying throughout our lives but I am horrified, and I felt that I deserved to take a second to address these things… To receive a message about a disgustingly false, counterproductive to the degree of being ironically misogynistic video of Megyn Kelly commenting on the manner — to learn the widespread nature of this has left me horrified.”
“Megyn used a photo taken ‘a year ago’ according to her, that had in actuality been taken about a decade ago before I was of LEGAL DRINKING AGE (I’m about to turn 30) as an example (maybe do some research that would take 30 seconds).”
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