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Lily Allen has said she deleted Twitter because it is used to “spread disinformation and lies” and amplifies the far-right.
The pop singer, 34, deactivated her account on Saturday after suggesting on social media that Boris Johnson was propelled to election victory by racist voters.
The vocal Labour supporter’s ranted on both her Instagram and Twitter accounts triggering a furious backlash. This included retweeting a post which said Conservative Party voters wanted “less brown people” and “kids to die with no healthcare”.
But the star has now taken to Instagram slamming her “bully” critics and attempting to explain her decision to quit the site.
In a series of posts, she wrote: “’It’s been reported that I deleted my Twitter because I couldn’t handle the abuse and humiliation that I got in the wake of my comments.
“I deleted my Twitter because I really believe that these platforms have given a voice to the far right, and they use them to spread disinformation and lies, which will win them elections and ruin people’s lives.
“If they didn’t exist we wouldn’t be here. I want to delete my Instagram too but I am just not there yet. I so wish I was.”
On Instagram yesterday morning, she also posted an image of a sad face emoji and claimed “racism and misogyny runs so so deep in this country and that Boris won because of his attitude towards those things and not in spite of them”.
Among those to attack her comments was GMB presenter Piers Morgan, who tweeted: “I think I speak for Britain when I say if @lilyallen doesn’t like it here, why doesn’t she f*** off?”
Many other users weighed in on her rant, with one person calling her a “privilege-denying clown”.
Ms Allen hit back, saying: “Oh f*** off I shout out my privilege every five mins. It’s because of my privilege and proximity to it that I know what inherently greedy c***s we all are. I KEEP TRYING TO TELL YOU.”
Hours later her account, @lilyallen, vanished with the message “this account doesn’t exist” showing up on the page.
But in an Instagram story last night, she denied that her move was a response to the criticism, claiming she is being “bullied” and accusing the media of “trying to make people like me look like the losers of this election”.
Last month, Allen shared a video showing her in floods of tears, pouring over the Labour manifesto on the day it was released.
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