Sam Frost is no stranger to cyber bullying.
Ever since her meteoric rise to fame from The Bachelor and then, of course, The Bachelorette, the 26-year-old has been harassed and abused online. And now she says, after years in the spotlight, the bullies “have won”.
The radio personality posted an eye-opening tweet last night to her 37,000 Twitter followers, telling “the fake accounts heavily trolling” her have left her “broken”.
Quick to jump to Frost’s defence was controversial Big Brother star, Tully Smyth, who too has experienced the corrosive impact of cyber bullying.
The 27-year-old blogger and model reminded Frost, who has recently returned from a Bali holiday with her partner Sasha Mielczarek, she is “strong, smart and beautiful”.
“Do not let faceless cowards get inside your head,” Smyth wrote. “Switch off for the night.”
This isn’t the first time Frost has broached the topic of bullying and the darker side of being a public persona. Earlier this year, on her 2DayFM breakfast radio program Rove & Sam, Frost penned an open letter to the trolls who have plagued her life for so long.
‘I don’t think people really understand the impact of it. Young kids and people, including myself get bullied on a daily basis,’ she said.
On a brighter note, here’s one of our favourite ‘Sam and Sasha’ moments. (Post continues after video…)
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I understand that the comments are not very nice and are hurtful but why do celebrities whinge about comments but continue to put up revealing pictures and photos that can only be described as look at me! I don't get it!
I'm not a psychologist - I only used it to fill credits as an undergraduate - but it reminds me of Spotlight Effect and self-as-target bias phenomena. They think they are more important to everyone else around them than they are (e.g. being noticed by everyone in a gym even when acting like a normal person/not making a scene) and perceiving things being aimed at them, when they are not (e.g. the skinny bitch who is trying to shame them by getting on the treadmill next to their's and running - when in reality it was the closest one to her/only free one/etc.).
These also play a role in making self-reporting of things like harassment effectively useless. Different people will count different things as harassment/etc. anyway, but given these phenomena, perception of harassment could be wildly different. Also, people lie a lot in self-reporting.
Sam seems like a very nice girl but I think she's in danger of becoming an overly dramatic desperate attention seeker.
This is a very bizarre comment. Sam has stated that she is specifically targeted with vicious comments by social media trolls - not just on their own accounts but also on fake ones they have created for the purpose of bullying her. So....how on earth is that perceiving something that's not really aimed at them??