Lily Allen opens up about her stillbirth and is attacked on Twitter
- Publish date
- Monday, 27 Feb 2017, 2:54PM
Today British singer, Lily Allen announced that she would be taking a break from social media after her timeline became polluted with vicious, disgusting comments about her mental health and the stillbirth of her son.
My timeline is full of the most disgusting, sexist, misogynistic, racist shit. Really, new levels. I'm no masochist so I'll be back x
— Lily (@lilyallen) February 25, 2017
The online abuse started when Allen was speaking out about immigration and racism against Muslims. Opposers took jabs at her mental health and ability to think rationally on the topic. Allen then came forward and to say she did in fact suffer with post traumatic stress disorder when her third child was stillborn in 2010 and to ask why that made her opinion any less valuable.
.@Ged_2345 I DO have mental health issues.Bi-polar,post natal depression, and PTSD, does that make my opinion void.
— Lily (@lilyallen) February 25, 2017
@Lumix_Trident @Ged_2345 when I lay in a hospital bed with my deceased son stuck between my legs halfway out of my body for 10 hours.
— Lily (@lilyallen) February 25, 2017
Instead of sympathy, Lily was met with tweets like this:
@lilyallen @Ged_2345 are you saying that a British hospital left you, with a dead baby 'stuck between your legs' for 10 hours? Liar!
— Lis (@lisaj21_x) February 25, 2017
Trolls proceeded to use the information against her. Comments were made (and some, since deleted) saying, "the baby knew you were going to be such a horrible mother." One person wrote a tweet suggesting drug use is the reason she lost the baby. The mother of two replied, "I didn't miscarry, I went into early labour and by [sic] son died from his chord wrapped round his neck."
.@Glveit6Glroud @Lumix_Trident @Ged_2345 I didn't miscarry ,I went into early labour and by son died from his chord wrapped round his neck.
— Lily (@lilyallen) February 25, 2017
One of the trolls who said multiple horrible things to Allen then asked for the screenshots of her tweets to be deleted.
.@lisaj21_x @Jon_Startin @Amandastock1 @sarek_united @hanalulan we kept the receipts 😜 pic.twitter.com/5IXFErsw00
— Lily (@lilyallen) February 26, 2017
Lisa fears for her safety,so, we'll take her photo down.We would never question a victims legitimacy. #whentheygolow pic.twitter.com/L5kba7IR0J
— Lily (@lilyallen) February 26, 2017
Allen has handed her account over to her friend, Dennis who will be working to combat the hate messages for her. This is so sad!
Hi , I'm Dennis,I'll be looking after lily's twitter for a while.I can only communicate in gif form,and I'm going on a hate blocking spree.
— Lily (@lilyallen) February 25, 2017
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