FKA Twigs responds to racist abuse on Twitter

FKA Twigs has discussed her decision to stand up against Twitter trolls after receiving online racist abuse in September 2014. The attack on her social media accounts followed news of FKA twigs’ romantic involvement with actor Robert Pattinson.

In conversation with Zane Lowe for Radio 1 Stories, Twigs states that she responded to the attacks as she “didn’t want them to see me being bullied and not stand up for myself because ultimately I’m 10 times stronger than somebody hiding behind a weird name on Twitter. I wanted to show that I can stand up for myself so then hopefully another person will see that and want to stand up for themselves.”

Barnett added, “I remember at the height when things were really bad for me. I remember lying in bed at three o’clock in the morning and it’s embarrassing but I was just reading through everything, reading every single comment. I just couldn’t believe the world was like that. I guess I’m quite naive for someone who’s come through the internet, I don’t engage with it that much. I just couldn’t believe people think like that or say things like that. It was morbidly fascinating.”

Listen to FKA Twigs in conversation with Zane Lowe below.