Sharon Gaffka has revealed how she bumped into one of her online trolls “in the street”.
After the Love Island star left the villa during the seventh series of the popular ITV dating show, she explained how she was flooded with hateful comments and death threats from fans of the show.
Now, nearly one year since she appeared on the show, the 26-year-old beauty completely transformed her online image from a former Islander to a female rights activist.
In a tell-all interview with Amelia Sordell on her podcast, Branded, the brunette beauty revealed how she interacted with one of the hateful trolls in person after she bumped into them in the middle of the street.
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During the enlightening episode, the reality star confessed how she expected there to be fireworks when she met them in person after the vile messages they posted on her social media accounts.
She explained: “And actually one of the pivotal moments was when I saw a troll in the street and they shied away from me so quickly.
“They were very good with their keyboard commenting about my body, about how I look, about how no one fancied me and I’m disgusting and all this stuff.
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“And then I saw him in the street with his daughter, very young daughter, looked him in the eye – because I don’t think he realised that I read these things – looked him in the eye and I was waiting for him to say something to me.”
But Sharon was surprised to see her online bully was left speechless as he ran away from the confrontation with his young daughter without saying a single comment to her in person.
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She added: “If you’re so big behind your keyboard, come and say it to my face. And I just stood there waiting and he just looks at me and then took his kid and walked off.
“I was like, ‘So clearly, there’s no substance to what you’re saying to me because you cannot say it to my face.”
Looking back on the event, the star admits how she often feels sorry for her online attackers as she views their hateful messages as a cry for help in their own lives.
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Sharon continued: “I always deal with it in a sense that that I’m really sorry that you’re so unhappy with your own life that you have to make comments about mine.
“Because I’m happy with who I am and my life, so then I don’t feel the need to send an abusive message to anyone because I’m busy doing me.”
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