Trolls have targeted her and her fans with racist comments.
FKA Twigs is one talented, beautiful woman. I mean, come on. She is queen. ?
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But since finding musical success and being propelled into the spotlight further by dating Robert Pattinson, FKA Twigs has revealed that she's been subject to some shocking racist abuse online.
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She showed the interviewer the messages, and when asked how she copes, she said: "I don't feel anything any more. I've only cried once over it."
However, she went on to break down in tears as she recounted the story of how trolls directed their racist abuse towards a female fan of hers who had cancer.
A male friend of the terminally ill fan would often come to Twigs' shows and the singer would sign memorabilia and film videos for her. One day, Twigs said, he tweeted a photo of him and his ill friend in hospital that showed her "looking really happy". "She listens to your music and it makes her so happy," the man said.
"I wrote back on Twitter, 'Thank you so much for coming to my show, stay strong,'" Twigs told the magazine. "They all started attacking her. Within 20 seconds it was just like, n*****, monkey, ugly, die, bitch, all this stuff on his feed. It broke my heart...this lady who is really sick and is probably going to die. I'm not crying for me, but because it's so upsetting. I feel like I've subjected her to that."
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