Peter Andre has opened up about the trolling he received in his early career.
The singer, 47, shot to fame in the early nineties with the success of Mysterious Girl, which he said led to him being "hated".
He said people accused him of having surgery to create his famous abs, which he admitted "really hurt".
Speaking on the most recent episode of Vicky Pattison's The Secret To podcast, Pete explained that people didn't like him because of the kind of music he was making.
He said: "When I first started out I couldn't take scrutiny at all when people would say you're s**t, you're crap, whatever they would say.
"It used to really hurt because I used to think what have I done to make you think that, you start questioning yourself.
"They'd say 'Those abs aren't real,' and 'We know you've had surgery' - this is before you could get surgery for them."
Pete believes it was because popular music in Ausralia was more rock and he was doing pop songs.
He added: "It had a lot of praise and followers but it had a lot of hatred as well."
The dad-of-four says he also got a lot of hate when he joined Twitter.
Pete said the trolls were "evil" and would leave him thousands of negative tweets a day.
But he learned to stop the trolls by just blocking anything remotely negative.
And he's learned to live with the hate.
He continued: "I'm OK with it now, if someone says something he's had a bad day, get over it who cares."
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