Gemma Collins has revealed she was forced to call the police. after receiving a threatening message from online troll.
The 42-year-old, who shot to fame after appearing on The Only Way Is Essex, came across the message while clearing out her Instagram DMs.
Speaking on the latest episode of The Gemma Collins Podcast, she explained: “I don’t give a s**t what people think of me. That comes with age, when I was a bit younger I was probably a bit bothered and people used to troll me.”
“I was shocked. I was deleting messages on my phone because I thought, ‘new year, new messages.’ Someone had messaged me saying, ‘You are one ugly, fat b***h. If I see you in the street I’m going to break your jaw.'”
“I did contact the police, because no one should be messaging that and clearly that person is not in a sane mind if he’s messaging that to me. Who else is he messaging it to?”
Gemma also called out social media platforms for not doing enough to combat online trolling, and demanded they put safeguards in place.
She said: “One problem I have got is you report all this to Instagram and they do nothing about it.”
“Anyone who abuses Instagram or sends a bad, hateful, insightful message to someone should be banned for life.”
“They should not be allowed to use the platform. I would love to see that happen in 2023.”
