Lily Allen trolled and abused on Twitter over her baby son's death

She’s temporarily quit over “new levels” of abuse.

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SINGER LILY ALLEN has temporarily handed over control of her Twitter account after she was subjected to “the most disgusting, sexist, misogynistic, racist shit”.

The row stemmed from tweets Allen sent in which she said she replaced the words ‘immigrant’ or ‘Muslim’ with ‘pensioner’ in order to make a point about prejudice.

.@johndubskierx I don't hate all pensioners just the extremists.Can't you see this country is being taken over by hate extremist pensioners.
— Lily Allen (@lilyallen) February 25, 2017

Lily / Twitter

The tweets, interpreted by some as a bona fide attack on UK pensioners, led to a torrent of abuse culminating in some truly awful exchanges about the death of Allen’s baby son in 2010.

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Lily Allen's trolls currently having a laugh over her son's death. Pop stardom, 2017.
— Eva Wiseman (@EvaWiseman) February 25, 2017

Eva Wiseman / Twitter

Allen handed over control of her Twitter account to ‘Dennis’ yesterday evening, citing “new levels” of trolling and abuse.

Hi , I'm Dennis,I'll be looking after lily's twitter for a while.I can only communicate in gif form,and I'm going on a hate blocking spree.
— Lily Allen (@lilyallen) February 25, 2017

Lily / Twitter

She has promised to return to her account today.

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Written by Emer McLysaght and posted on DailyEdge.ie

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