Emmerdale star Michelle Hardwick has opened up about how she had to get the police involved over online trolling.
The actress, who portrays Vanessa Woodfield in the ITV soap, recalled a time that the trolling got really bad that she had no choice but to contact the police.
‘It’s the good and the bad, because there’s some not-very-nice people on social media, as we all know,’ she said at Silver Pride recently. ‘But that’s just part of it.
‘People could say: “Well, come off social media”. But then I think: “Well, there’s only one or two people who are like that, and then there’s quite a lot of others who are very, very lovely’” So why should I?
‘I tell myself that I think they’re bored, they’re not that malicious.
‘I always think to myself, it could be your bank manager, it could be the person who works at your local florist. It’s probably not, but it could be. That is the thing, nobody knows.
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‘A couple of years ago it was that bad that the police had to be involved.’
‘[They] just wanted me to die and things like that. They didn’t mention because I was gay or anything like that. But the police were fantastic.’
The soap star recently revealed that she took a break from social media, after reading horrific comment online, that was left on a picture of her with wife Kate Brooks and their son Teddy.
‘We had a little social media break because we had a terrible, terrible comment on one of his pictures, telling me and Kate we’d burn in hell and it’s absolutely disgusting, it’s wrong,’ she said.
“You’re just like: “Oh really? In 2021?” You know, do what you want, say what you want about me and Kate or say what you want under a picture, but do not put it under a picture of our son.
‘I never, ever respond or re-tweet or whatever, but I did with that one. I put it out there onto Twitter and the response was fantastic.’
Michelle said that comments such as this one are proof of why gay Pride is still needed.
‘When you do get those odd people that’ll turn round and say: “Well why do you still have gay pride, why do you need that?” Then you go: “Because of people like that,”‘ she added on Out with Suzi Ruffell podcast.
‘That’s why we still need them. To normalise it as much as we can’.
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