The Boys star Erin Moriarty lately said that she would be taking an indefinite break from social media. The 29-year-old actress made her statement in response to Megyn Kelly, a former Fox News host, who criticized her appearance. On Friday, Moriarty wrote a long note on her Instagram account, stating that her “heart” is “broken.” In the January 17 episode of her show SiriusXM, Kelly accused the actress of having many surgeries to change her face.
Moriarty started her statement with, “This is something I truly never anticipated writing.” “We’re all subject to levels of bullying throughout our lives but I am horrified, and I felt that I deserved to take a second to address these things,” she went on to say. Moriarty then stated that she was angry by the former NBC correspondent’s statements regarding her facial features.
erin moriarty you are so loved. jesus christ pic.twitter.com/yBP7QyHb6y
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She added, “The only reason I have not deactivated my account is because I will be leaving this here. Otherwise, consider it deactivated. I will not have access to it for an extensive if not permanent break.”
“Social media is not something that came naturally to me and that was an investment of energy to connect with you guys. And I am horrified by the reaction, the reductive assumptions, and the aforementioned video that is a primary example of such harassment, She wrote.
The actress went on to voice her fury, stating, “It’s broken my heart. You’ve broken my heart. You’ve lost the privilege of this account. So you can believe whatever you want. But there’s no excuse for these horrific allegations, the verbal abuse that I have had to delete, and genuinely false information that is being used to perpetuate a message that is exhibitionist feminism.” She added, “I have been in a hole and I’ve been consumed by this personal situation at hand. You never know what someone is going through, social media is a platform that is not representative of a whole person, and irregardless there is no excuse for the words that have been spoken directly to me or about me.”
Moriarty added, “Shame on you, Megyn Kelly.” “Implying my photo is reflective of women being in a worse place is as false as my conviction in saying that if you resigned, you would be leaving women in a better place,” she said in a statement.