Love Island’s Amber Gill reveals she feels ‘overwhelmed’ by ‘racist and ignorant’ trolls
LOVE Island’s Amber Gill has revealed “racist” and “ignorant” trolls have left her feeling like she’s “fighting a losing battle”.
The reality star, 23, told her followers she sometimes needs to step away from social media because of the offensive messages she receives.
Fitness guru Amber shared an example of the trolling she gets, with one message criticising her for speaking out on racial issues.
She then wrote: “Sometimes if you catch me being super quiet on here when I usually use my voice it’s because I get overwhelmed/exhausted and need a break.
“I can’t post one story without hundreds of messages like the ones I just posted. And what I say or repost never warrants the amount of hateful messages I get in return.
“And it’s how idiotic and pathetic the messages are makes me feel like I ‘m fighting a losing battle.
“I love speaking up but it’s the ignorance and bigotry and racism. They know exactly what they are doing… it’s gaslighting.”
Despite the hurt the messages cause, Amber said she refuses to give up speaking about what she believes in.
She continued: “Sometimes gets too much as these people are not listening to understand they just want to fight. But this is the most important time to keep speaking as they want people like us to just put up and shut up.
“I’m not crying about the messages. I don’t expect my followers to agree with 100% of what I say.”
Amber shot to fame as the winner of Love Island 2019, which she won with Greg O’Shea.
She has since thrown herself into a new fitness app, AmberFlexx, which includes a programme she used to transform her body.
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The islander was trolled last year after putting on weight in lockdown, but she came out fighting.
She said: “I didn’t really intend on losing a load of weight, just wanted to start feeling better.
“By no means do I think I was ‘fat’, but I wasn’t being as healthy and mindful as usual and right now I feel so much better within myself.
“I used to think that line ‘lose a stone in 6 weeks’ was all lies but that’s exactly what I did, and a little bit extra.”