Bella Ramsey has recently disclosed their practice of actively seeking out negative comments about themselves. The 21-year-old star has been subject to online backlash ever since their casting as Ellie in the television adaptation of the popular video game, The Last Of Us.
During their latest appearance on The Louis Theroux Podcast, Bella discussed their habit of reading online comments that lean towards the hateful side. “You sort of go looking for the next horrible one or the one that’s like slightly worse than the last one you saw. I did,” they admitted.
Furthermore, Bella revealed that they have come to terms with the fact that they “can’t do anything about” other people’s opinions and have accepted this criticism, stating that “it doesn’t mean anything really to (them) anymore.”
“There’s a human being behind all of these sometimes really awful comments. There’s literally a human sat at home typing that out. Like how?” the British star further remarked, adding, “Finding the humanity behind these like keyboard warriors, as they’re called, is also an interesting thing.”
“I love a Google. I deactivated my social media recently, not because of that – well, maybe partly – because it was so much pressure, I couldn’t be dealing with it anymore. But it was sort of social media before and now it’s a good old Google search,” Bella Ramsey concluded.
