Tiffany Haddish will come for you, if you come for her.
The “Girls Trip” and “Haunted Mansion” star admits she takes matters of online harassment into her own hands when it comes to her reputation and sometimes gives her haters a real-world surprise.
Given all the negative talk about the comedian (amid a short-lived but damaging grooming scandal, her repeated DUI arrests, and her controversial trip to Israel in February), she has begun blocking certain phrases on Instagram, including “setback ,” “fart,” and “It’s not funny,” he recently told LA Times columnist Amy Kaufman.
He has also taken his online research further, diving into the realm of digital vigilantism.
Haddish, 44, said she hired a digital forensics analyst to investigate where her death threats were coming from and found that 75% were robots from Malaysia and Iran. The Emmy and Grammy-winning star also said she created a fake Instagram account where an alter ego named Sarah will come in and “destroy” anyone who hates her. She does this by learning details about the trolls' personal lives and using them to her advantage.
“I learned how to find information about people, like checking their credit report and police records. You can do it for $1.99,” Haddish said. “Sometimes I get so angry that I get their phone number and just call them.”
Yes really.
“Oh, I have called “People, darling,” he confirmed. “They are surprised that I called. They'll say, 'I can't believe you saw that.' You made a whole video, bitch! You made a whole five minute video! On the Internet, people think they can say anything and you won't say anything. “I try my best not to, but I’m a human being.”
The star of “The Afterparty” and “Night School” also talks to Kaufman about the idea of feeling “persecuted” and how that influenced her decision not to have children, and tells him that she has had eight miscarriages, which made her feel like you have “your soul falling out of your body” and an abortion.
“I would hate to give birth to someone who looks like me, knowing that they will be hunted or killed,” she writes in “I Curse You With Joy,” her latest book of autobiographical essays to be published Tuesday. “I don't want the stress of worrying every time my black baby goes to school or hangs out with his friends because he could end up dead.”
Haddish also talks about how she's stopped doing too many things, her mental health (which, by the way, she says is perfectly fine), and the attitude adjustment she's experienced from people in the industry after her scandals, not to mention his history with the homeless. , domestic violence and rape, which she has mined for material.
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