Lily Allen has revealed that she is living with bipolar and admitted that she also suffered post traumatic stress disorder after she lost her baby son in 2010.
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The gobby singer made the shock revelation after online trolls started to bully her online after she tried to make a point about prejudice by replacing the word ‘immigrants’ with ‘pensioners’ in a series of tweets.
Idiots, who were seemingly too thick to understand what she was trying to say, took offence and decided to hurl heaps of abuse at her.
Some of the Twitter Twits even made unsavoury bad taste comments about her son, who was stillborn back in 2010, suggesting she was exaggerating the trauma and even holding her responsible.
When one troll accused her of having a mental illness, the Smile singer replied candidly: “I DO have mental health issues. Bi-polar,post natal depression, and PTSD, does that make my opinion void.”
.@Ged_2345 I DO have mental health issues.Bi-polar,post natal depression, and PTSD, does that make my opinion void.
— Lily Allen (@lilyallen) February 25, 2017
In spite of her honesty, more bitter Twitter followers attacked Lily online and homed in on one of the most heartbreaking times in her life.
One tweeted that if she hadn’t taken drugs “you wouldn’t have miscarried”.
An angry Lily hit back: “I didn’t miscarry, I went into early labour and my son died from his chord wrapped round his neck.”
Another cretin tweeted: “The baby knew you were going to be such a horrible mother.”
Eventually the abuse became way too hard to deal with for Lily who announced she was stepping back from Twitter to let a pal called Dennis take over her feed.
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The revolting exchanges led to a discussion about whether the people who are so nasty online should be banned from Twitter.
Metal health writer Matt Haig summed up many people’s feelings.
https://twitter.com/matthaig1/status/835606601902002176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Twitter recently pledged to bring an end to people trolling and cyber-bullying on the social network and announced a series of new measures.
It says it will attempt to permanently ban trolls who try to sign up for Twitter again using new usernames.