Love Island winner Amber Gill has shared a series of vile messages from racist trolls who she accused of "gaslighting" her.
The telly star, 23, took to Instagram to repost a number of nasty notes she'd received, including one which told her "it's embarrassing how frequently black people pull the race card".
Another messages shared a picture of Amber with her hair in braids, asking: "How did you style your hair like that?" before adding: "Oh s**t sorry that was completely racist and uncalled for. My bad."
Amber then told followers she felt "exhausted" and "overwhelmed" having to deal with the abuse, and said she gets hundreds of messages like this whenever she posts on social media.
In her poignant update, she wrote: "Sometimes if you catch me being super quiet on here when I usually use my voice it's because I get overwhelmed/exhausted and need a break.
"I can't post one story without hundreds of messages like the ones I just posted. And what I say or repost never warrants the amount of hateful messages I get in return.
"And it's how idiotic and pathetic the messages are makes me feel like I'm fighting a losing battle.
"I love speaking up but it's the ignorance and bigotry and racism. They know exactly what they are doing... it's gaslighting."
Amber went on to insist the trolls just want to fight and won't listen to reason.
However, she told followers she's not "crying" about the posts but felt she needed to speak up.
She added: "Sometimes gets too much as these people are not listening to understand they just want to fight. But this is the most important time to keep speaking as they want people like us to just put up and shut up.
"I'm not crying about the messages. I don't expect my followers to agree with 100% of what I say."
Last year, Amber admitted she'd been trolled and "fat-shamed" over her weight.
She explained: "Not me on tiktok being fat shamed?! What? First of all we are in a pandemic.
"Second How do people look so closely that they notice before I even notice.
"I've been living in hoodies and sweatpants for the whole of this year and ended up putting on a whole stone!
"I can’t lie I was shocked but I cannot cook to save my life so it was takeout breakfast lunch and dinner so I don’t know what I expected. And with another lockdown potentially on the horizon it could happen again
"I'm sure the people that commented are the image of perfection so thank you for that... Whoever put on weight this year don't worry I’m with you."
Amber went on to lose all the weight she'd gained and launched her own fitness app called AmberFlexx.
