After being subject to vile abuse online, Emily Clarkson did all she could to protect her family from the online trolls and managed to track them down with thanks to a personal investigator
Jeremy Clarkson’s daughter Emily has taken drastic measures to protect her family as online trolls attacked her personal life online. In recent weeks influencers and celebrities have opened up about the toll online gossip site Tattle Life has taken on their lives, with personal lives, cruel comments and addresses being shared on the platform.
Since Tattle Life’s anonymous owner was outed in a Northern Irish court last month, victims of the vicious forum openly spoken out about the impact it’s had on them. Jeremy Clarkson’s eldest daughter is among those speaking out after she resorted to hiring a private investigator to help uncover the trolls targeting her and her family.
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Speaking on her podcast Should I Delete That? with co-host Alex Light, Emily said the gossip site had left her “broken” and the cyberbullying got to bad she needed help stopping the abuse. Emily said: “Tattle has been the biggest thorn in our sides. You and I, Al, have genuinely been heartbroken by this; it’s affected me to the point where I’ve had to block it on all devices.”
Tattle, which attracted 12 million visitors a month has been around for nearly a decade, and was originally created as an open platform for discussion, but has been known as a “troll site” attacking celebrities and internet personalities.
Emily, who is an author, is just one of thousands of people being trolled by anonymous Tattle users and the 30-year-old said her pregnancy with her second child, Xanthe was ruined by trolls on the site who leaked details of her pregnancy. “I was so broken by it, I haven’t been able to check it since Arlo was born, if they say anything bad about my kids I’m gonna die,” Emily further detailed.
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Once her pregnancy had been leaked online by Tattle Life users, Emily got the private investigator to track down the culprit. “It felt really nice to know they could be found, and if you push me too far, I know who you are,” she said. “If I read my thread, I’d think I’m the worst person in the world.
Emily said: “I’m incredibly good at finding people on the internet,” and her investigation skills led her to find one Tattle Life user who referred to Emily as ‘thrush’ as she was ‘annoying’, but on Instagram, the user would message Emily being as nice as pie.
To show her she knew who she was, Emily decided to send her a picture of thrush medication on Instagram and was swiftly left alone by the troll. “She saw it and never replied,” Emily laughed. However she said the comments not only “broke her” but could also have a detrimental effect on her career including work partnerships and relationships as those targeted never get a chance to defend themselves.
Source: Mirror
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