Denise Welch has revealed her husband Lincoln Townley 'turned detective' to expose the identity of an online troll who send her horrific abuse.
Speaking on Monday's Loose Women, Denise started by saying some of the trolling she'd received this year was 'beyond' as she tried to offer reassurance on the coronavirus pandemic and pushed for people to realise the devastating impact it's been having on people's mental health.
But Denise then opened up on other half Lincoln's quest to to unearth the identity of a troll after he saw the vile message he'd sent the Geordie actress.
She told Loose Women colleagues Andrea McLean, Brenda Edwards and Kelle Bryan: "Lincoln saw a tweet that had come through to me from a guy whose handle was @horrible... 'four letters' - the word that we don't use.
"For some reason Lincoln turned detective and managed to find the guy. He went through his timeline and found a selfie he'd taken at the wheel. He saw the name name of a company on his badge, phoned the company and the guy was called in."
Revealing her surprise at what happened next, Denise added: "Lincoln then got contacted by the guy and he got in touch begging and begging Lincoln to take the photo that he posted of him down off Twitter.
"He said 'My wife doesn't know I do this, I go to the garden shed and I troll people and don't want my wife and child to know.'"
Reacting to what Denise said, Andrea responded: "99.999% of the trolls I get are middle aged women who are probably super nice at the school gate but then go home and write the most vile things to other women."
Denise also said that more needs to be done to educate school children on the effects of trolling and one viewer tweeted her to say: "just watching your comment about trolling awareness in schools. This is exactly what I do as part of my charity around facial disfigurement & visible difference. It’s so very needed."
