My 3000lb Family star Casey King has exposed the vile death threats he received while starring in the TLC reality show.
Casey weighed 845lbs (60 stone) at his heaviest and was forced to bathe in an outdoor trough after getting trapped in his shower for 11 hours.
The star would spend hours naked in his room playing video games, and confessed he lived his life through social media. At the time of the show airing, that meant Casey opened himself up to a lot of hate messages.
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Speaking exclusively to Daily Star, he admitted: “I cringe at some of the things I posted 10 years ago when I was at my biggest. It was so bad. I was living life fully through Facebook.
(Image: TLC)
“The main ads for the show were on YouTube and Facebook, and my friends were seeing them and tagging me to say, ‘I know Casey, he’s a good guy, he’s trying to change his life.’ But all that did was bring me to the front door of everyone sh***ing on me. Like, hardcore. I was so disliked on the show. I was painted to look like such an a**hole.”
Casey admits that he was “very negative” and “very much a man-baby” while on the programme – but a lot of it came down to editing.
He explained: “I was very scared to have the surgery, but they make it look like I wasn’t getting it. I did the show for the surgery. It’s like a role they’ve edited me into.
“It looks like my foot was never in the door all the way, but I was just very scared. I had heard people say, ‘Being so big, you going under the knife, you could die. Anaesthesia is not easy for people who are your size. They could leave a rag inside you. What if they remove your arm by accident?’
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“I was so scared.”
But that wasn’t the hardest part of his experience.
Casey confessed: “The hardest part was probably the intense amount of negativity and troll messages – literal death threats – I got.
“People said, ‘We hate you, you’re a piece of garbage, you’re a waste of space, kill yourself.’ There was a lot of it.”
“The comments making fun of me, I don’t take to heart that badly because I was a freak show. I was an odd person to look at. So there are some negative comments I don’t even blame them for.
(Image: _caseyking_ / Instagram)
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“But there were people who were like, ‘He’s not gonna lose it, he’s gonna stay fat forever, what a loser’, when I was doing well already.”
Casey was eventually warned by show bosses that he needed to stop reading the comments – but he was desperate to prove his weight loss to the doubters, and decided to set up a YouTube account to do so.
He said: “I started to argue with people on YouTube. The only reason I made the channel was because no-one believed me in the comments that I was the person from the show.”
And Casey did prove his haters wrong. Now down an incredible 41 stone, Casey looks slimmer than ever and has totally turned his life around. He’s even dating for the first time.
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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
