OHMYGOSSIP — Michelle Hardwick quit social media after receiving homophobic abuse online.
The 45-year-old actress – who plays Vanessa Woodfield in ‘Emmerdale’ – has revealed that she walked away from social media platforms after the soap star and her wife Kate Brooks were trolled following the arrival of their son Teddy last year.
She explained: “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.
“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 also thinks the incident underlines the continued need for Gay Pride.
The actress admitted it can be tough to get negative comments on social media “out of your mind”.
Michelle – who tied the knot in 2019 – told the ‘Out with Suzi Ruffel’ podcast: “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. That’s why we still need them. To normalise it as much as we can’.
“It’s very easy for people to say, ‘Oh but you had thousands of comments – positive ones’. It’s that one negative one though, that you cannot get out of your mind.”
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