![]() ![]() In December, Barnett filed a lawsuit against LaBeouf for "relentless abuse" inflicted upon her during the course of their nearly year-long relationship, according to reports from The New York Times and Variety. The "Cellophane" singer also opened up about deciding to go public with her allegations of abuse against former boyfriend Shia LaBeouf. "I now love how I look and I'm very confident and I feel really good, but it was deeply unfair at the time that I was made to feel so self-conscious and so ugly," she said.īarnett and Pattinson were briefly engaged before ultimately splitting in 2017. It's really sad."ĭespite this, Barnett wants to reassure everyone that she's overcome the racist bullying. But it is essentially bullying, and it does affect you psychologically. Obviously, I know now that's completely ridiculous. So I need to really try and hide this monkey-ness that I have, because otherwise, people are gonna come for me about it.'. "I remember it had this massive, dysmorphic effect on me for about six months to a year, where every time I saw my pictures and photographs I would think, 'Gosh, I look like a monkey, and people are going to say I look like a monkey. "I used to think it was really hurtful but really stupid," Barnett said. This constant racist barrage from fans took a mental toll on her. "Whatever I did at that time, people would find pictures of monkeys and have me doing the same thing as the monkeys." "He was their white Prince Charming and I think they considered that he should definitely be with somebody white and blonde and not me," she said. The disdain in the Twilight actor's fans was seemed to be in wanting to see him date a white woman, added Barnett. And then I got there and people just called me the most hurtful and ignorant and horrible names under the planet." I'd worked so, so, so, so, so hard, just to get a little seat at the table. People talk about Black excellence, but that is because we have to be excellent to be considered average. But I don't know whether it was because of my age or whether it was because of the social climate or whether it was because being Black and from Cheltenham and from a low-income family and having to genuinely work twice as hard as everything I do to get a seat at the table–because that is true. If I was going through that now, I feel like I'd be able to talk about it, and do some good with it. "It was at a time where I felt like I couldn't really talk about it. "It was really, really deeply horrific," said Barnett of the public backlash she received from Pattinson's fans. FKA Twigs, who was born Tahliah Barnett, opened up about facing "horrific" racist abuse during her three-year-long relationship with Robert Pattinson in a new interview with Louis Theroux for his Grounded podcast. ![]()
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