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Lorraine Kelly brands trolls ‘nasty ants with megaphones’ as Jesy Nelson opens up on suicide attempt


Lorraine Kelly has suggested that people should ‘not go’ on social media (Picture: Getty/BBC)

Lorraine Kelly has suggested that people should ‘not go’ on social media and to never ‘take the comments to heart’.

Her plea comes as Little Mix star Jesy Nelson revealed that she attempted to commit suicide after being bullied online.

‘I was really lucky,’ said Lorraine at Monday’s TV Choice Awards, ‘when I started out there was no Twitter and there was no social ­media. I was allowed when I was a kid to make mistakes.’

‘I honestly think in this day and age I would be ­absolutely slaughtered.’

She went on to plead with everyone to not look at the comments: ‘A plea from me, do not go on ­it. Use it because, obviously, we all do. But don’t look at the comments and don’t take those comments to heart. It’s just not worth it.

‘They’re horrible nasty ants with megaphones, so don’t listen to them.’

In September Jesy admitted that in 2013, after struggling to cope with the taunts of cruel trolls about her appearance, she tried to end her life.

She went on to explain that controversial TV personality Katie Hopkins’ comments about her image after the band performed on The X Factor felt like the last straw.

Jesy in 2011 (Picture: WireImage)

After the group’s gig, Katie tweeted: ‘Packet Mix have still got a chubbier in their ranks. Less Little Mix. More Pick n Mix.’

Jesy said the tweet marked a point where her life started ‘spiralling out of control’.

‘All I remember feeling at that time is “what’s the f***ing point?”‘ the 28-year-old recalled on her documentary, Jesy Nelson: Odd One Out.

‘I starved myself for a week and I’m still getting called fat. I could be the skinniest girl in the world and this is never going to go away.’

She continued: ‘That is the pinnacle point for me when I got severely depressed and it just spiralled out of control.’

The star broke down in tears as she explained her state of mind at that point: ‘I was sat in bed thinking this is never going to go.

‘I’m going to constantly wake up and feel sad for the rest of my life so what is the point in being here. There is no point in waking up and feeling sad every day.’

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