Barry Keoghan Says Online Hate About His Appearance Is 'Becoming A Problem'

Barry Keoghan at an Oscars after-party earlier this month Barry Keoghan has claimed that online abuse about his looks is beginning to take a toll. The Oscar nominee recently made an appearance on SiriusXM , where he was asked how he copes with the global fame he’s achieved in recent years, and the scrutiny that comes with it. While he acknowledged that he has an “incredible fanbase” who are “so lovely” towards him, he added that there’s also a “nasty side” to being in the public eye. Barry explained that while he “removed” himself from much of that by deleting his social media , he still finds it tough not to check what’s being said about him online. “I’m still a curious being that wants to go on – if I attend an event or if I go somewhere – to see how it was received,” he said. “And it’s not nice, you know? “There’s a lot of hate online, a lot of abuse of how I look, and it’s kind of passed a point of, you know, ‘everyone goes through that’.” He admitted: “It’s made me shy away. It’s made me really go inside myself, not want to attend places, not want to go outside. And I say this being absolutely pure and honest here, it’s becoming a problem. “So, I don’t have to hide away, because I am hiding away. I don’t have to go to places, because I actually don’t go to places, because of these things. But when that starts leaking into your art, it becomes a problem, because then you don’t even want to be on screen anymore.” Back in 2024, Barry announced he was deleting his Instagram page as a result of the barrage of abuse he’d received. “I deactivated my account because I can no longer let this stuff distract from my family and my work,” he wrote on X. “The messages I have received no person should ever have to read [...] absolute lies, hatred, disgusting commentary about my appearance, character, how I am as a parent and every other inhumane thing you can imagine. “Dragging my character and everything I worked extremely hard for and stand for. Talking about how I was a ‘heroin baby’ and how I grew up, and dragging my dear mother into it, also knocking on my granny’s door, sitting outside my baby boy’s house, intimidating them. That’s crossing a line.” Prior to that, the Saltburn star had already spoken candidly about the “absolutely disgusting” things that are said about him online , specifically calling out those who comment on his appearance and skills as a father. Barry deleting his Instagram page came just days after it was reported that he and pop singer Sabrina Carpenter had parted ways after around a year of dating , which seemingly exacerbated the abuse he was describing. READ MORE: Barry Keoghan Debuts Beatles Hair Transformation At Premiere Of His New Thriller Sabrina Carpenter Opens Up About How Barry Keoghan Split Influenced Her New Album Barry Keoghan Opens Up About His Role In The New Peaky Blinders Movie

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