![]() ![]() It was almost like the world handing me a weird favor: a slap with one hand, then a kiss on the cheek afterwards.” “I was so disturbed, and that comes through in the video. Racism is unacceptable in the real world and it’s unacceptable online.” Then she got back to work. That day at the video shoot, she made a concise statement over Twitter: “I am genuinely shocked and disgusted at the amount of racism that has been infecting my account the past week. Many of the hate messages had to do with Twigs’ relationship with actor Robert Pattinson others came from garden-variety trolls and bigots. “It was all this crazy, racist abuse out of nowhere,” says the 26-year-old British singer-producer-dancer, who was on set at a former juvenile prison at the time, shooting a music video for her single “Video Girl.” “But if you’re an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.” One day in September, FKA Twigs looked at her phone to see an infinitely scrolling torrent of vicious tweets.
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