COMEDIAN Miranda Hart detailed the vile abuse she received from a Twitter troll who told the actress she "deserved" to get "cancer".
The TV star, 50, makes a living from making people laugh and seeing the funny side of life, but there's nothing funny about her social media "abuse".
Taking to Twitter earlier this week, the Miranda sitcom star shocked her followers after explaining one of the truly horrible messages she had opened.
"I naively thought Twitter 'abuse' might've eased," she wrote. "It doesn't bother me that someone says I deserve cancer coz I'm unfunny or look pregnant with weight gain."
"It's the shock of how we treat each other," she added. "We all deserve & desire dignity so why do we forget to give that to fellow humans."
Fans were rightly fuming at the ordeal, with one replying: "Not good and not acceptable. Where does all this anger and hatred come from??"
While another said: "This behaviour would lessen if people had to use their real name and profile photo." A third penned: "Yeah I totally agree with that."
It comes after Miranda spoke in a candid interview about the similarities between her fictional "on-screen Miranda" character and herself.
"Being physically bigger you often try to hide in an attempt to make yourself more 'feminine'," she explained during an interview with You.
She said: "This was obviously something that on-screen Miranda and I shared, because, spookily enough, we look identical. I know – weird.
"But as I got comfortable about being tall I realised I diminished myself in other ways.
"We need to stop thinking that being angry or brash is unacceptable as a female; there are times when those things are appropriate and right."
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