Bella Thorne Opened Up About Being a Survivor of Molestation
Bella Thorne is now one of the more recent woman to step forward to open up about sexual violation. In a heartbreaking exchange on Twitter on Friday, she opened up about experiencing sexual molestation as a child. The conversation was prompted in a beyond inappropriate way, with a Twitter user callously joking about molestation and Thorne coming back to reply with her own experience. (That being said, it’s important to note that no one ever—ever—owes anyone else an explanation or disclosure about past traumas, nor should they ever feel pressured to do so.)
Thorne posted a photo of herself wearing a plum-colored suit jacket sans shirt, which she playfully enhanced with some neon and white starburst-type lines and what look like red antennas or devil horns. In a reply to the picture, one user commented, “What did Disney do to this girl?! I think she was molested.” It was a pretty cruel thing to say—and a reminder of just how often randoms on Twitter forget that the recipient of the comment might just be a real person.
Thorne replied with, “Yeah I was. So it wasn’t Disney” before adding another, seemingly related, tweet.
Fans and friends immediately took to the platform to share their support.
https://twitter.com/mminthehallway/status/939221114223562752
Thorne has had to deal with her fair share of trolls—from this heartbreaking example on Friday to the Hollywood backlash she received after coming out as bisexual to flamers who tell her to shave her legs. But this should be a huge reminder that the person behind the tweets—celebrity or normal!—is human, with a personal history, and absolutely zero obligation to explain their past traumas to anyone.
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