It’s been a big week for radio, television and podcast personality Meshel Laurie, who on Tuesday night, reminded us all why we love her so much.
For those who missed it, Laurie was sent two vitriolic Facebook messages over the weekend. They were sent by people she’d never met or spoken to before and attacked various aspects of her career, as well as her physical appearance.
Wanting to show that the messages had not hurt her, Laurie spoke about the incident on her breakfast radio show and shared screenshots of the messages (and the usernames of the authors) with her 20,000 followers.
But in doing so, Laurie has now said that she made a mistake.
Comedian Meshel wants to make people laugh, not cry. Source: Facebook.
In the just two days that passed, has learned that the authors were harassed in return, and on her behalf. It's something she says that she's not okay with and certainly doesn't condone.
Taking to Facebook once more on Tuesday, Laurie said, "I've deleted the posts in which I publicly shamed two men who sent me abusive messages over the weekend because I've been informed that one of them is "in a bad way" as a result of the backlash. I can't say I feel sorry for him, but I'm hoping to speak to him personally later today."
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its more than 50%, a women opens her mouth. It will be met with some form of abuse
Well done to Meshel for having the guts to admit she made a mistake. Not enough of that in the world.
Harsh lesson learnt for the trolls. Hopefully they take something away from this and become better people because of it.