Lily Allen Takes A Break From Twitter After Being Targeted By Trolls Over Son's Stillbirth
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.
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”.