Phoebe Bridgers has spoken out about abuse she experienced from fans online (Picture: Rich Fury/Getty Images for LACMA)
Phoebe Bridgers has revealed she was targeted by ‘bullies’ on her way to her father’s funeral service.
The 28-year-old singer’s father Tony died towards the end of last year, posting a tribute on Instagram confirming the news.
The I Know The End hitmaker uploaded a snap of the pair together, simply captioned: ‘Rest in peace dad [sic].’
The singer sported bright pink hair in the tribute post that showed the father and daughter sharing headphones but didn’t offer any additional information on her father’s cause of death.
She has now explained that she was targeted by a group of bullies posing as fans on Twitter when she was at the airport preparing to travel to his memorial service.
‘I’m coming from a place of literally – I’m feeling it in my body as I’m saying, but – people with my picture as their Twitter picture, who claim to like my music, f***ing bullied me at the airport on the way to my father’s funeral this year,’ she shared in a new interview.
‘If you’re a kid and the internet somehow taught you that that’s an OK thing to do, then, of course, I hate capitalism and everything that led you to believe that it’s OK to do that.
‘I, at one of the lowest points of my life, saw people who claim to love me f***ing dehumanise me and shame me and f***ing bully me on the way to my dad’s wake.’
The singer’s father died towards the end of 2022 (Picture: Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)
The Chinese Satellite singer – who is also part of indie rock supergroup Boygenius with Lucy Davus and Julien Baker – went on to acknowledge that the bullies would have known about her father’s death because she had announced it on social media and she’s now learning she doesn’t have to just take online abuse because of her fame.
She told Them magazine: ‘It’s not like they didn’t know my dad just died. A lot of the top comments [were] like, “Hey, her dad just died, what are you guys doing?”
The star said that most of people she talks to ‘light up [her] life’ and remind her what she loves about her career, but that her two best friends are ‘helping [her] with the boundary of “I don’t have to sit here and be f***ing grateful that that happened” and that that’s a part of my job’
‘It doesn’t have to be, and it wasn’t five years ago, so I appreciate being able to look at two other people and be like, this is dehumanising abuse, horrible s***,’ she continued.
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The singer’s dad died in 2022.