FKA Twigs is reflecting on the “deeply horrific” racist abuse leveled at her by Robert Pattinson fans during the pair’s former relationship.
“It was really, really deeply horrific,” the “cellophane” songstress, whose real name is Tahliah Barnett, told Louis Theroux on his “Grounded” podcast Monday.
The “Honey Boy” actress, 33, said the harassment occurred “at a time where I felt like I couldn’t really talk about it.
“I feel like if I was going through that now, I feel like I’d be able to talk about it, and do some good with it,” she explained.
“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 at everything I do to get a seat at the table,” said the Grammy nominee.
She noted, “People talk about Black excellence, but that is because we have to be excellent to be considered average.”
And after all her hard work started to get her where she wanted to be, Barnett said fans of the “Twilight” star, 34, attacked her with “the most hurtful and ignorant and horrible names under the planet.”
The singer and “Tenet” actor got together in 2014 and were briefly engaged before they went their separate ways in 2017.
“He was their white Prince Charming and I think they considered that he should definitely be with somebody white and blond and not me,” she recalled, noting that people began to “find pictures of monkeys and have me doing the same thing as the monkey.”
Barnett noted the racist comparisons eventually made her equate herself to such images.
“And I just remember it had this massive like dysmorphic effect on me for about six months to a year,” she said, noting that now she loves how she looks but such bullying does “affect you psychologically.”
