‘Call me a gold digger, I love it!’ Married At First Sight’s Stacey Hampton hits back at trolls after receiving ‘disgusting’ online abuse and death threats
Stacey Hampton has spoken out about the relentless abuse and death threats the Married At First Sight cast have been receiving.
In a video obtained by Daily Mail Australia, the 26-year-old said that, while she’s happy to handle harassment, she won’t stand for trolls bullying her family members or the rest of the cast.
The clip showed Stacey sitting on her bed, telling the camera: ‘I’m just addressing today a lot of things I’ve been seeing and hearing in the media and online in regards to death threats, crazy things like that.’
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Standing her ground: Married At First Sight star Stacey Hampton, 26, has unleashed upon trolls over the relentless online abuse directed at her family and fellow cast members
She went on to explain: ‘The fact that people are now going out to make death threats towards other humans and even family members and children is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.’
Justifying her decision to hit back at the haters, Stacey said she believed that if she stayed silent it would say more about her than ‘anybody else’.
‘If you think that’s acceptable then I suggest Susan, Karen, anonymous, whatever your frickin’ username is, I suggest you put the Cheetos down and go up to your child and say ‘hope you die”,’ she said, pointing her finger at the screen.
‘We are humans’: In a video obtained by Daily Mail Australia, the 26-year-old said that, while she’s happy to handle harassment, she won’t stand for trolls bullying her family members or the rest of the cast
Stacey said she doubted anyone would do such a horrific act in real life.
‘You might feel superior behind your little phones, but going out and actually doing it and saying it to their face is another thing,’ she raged.
‘We are humans, we were there to entertain you, don’t forget it, alright? I can deal with it. I don’t care. But I’ve got two kids too.’
‘That’s disgusting’: Justifying her decision to hit back at the haters, Stacey said she believed that if she stayed silent it would say more about her than ‘anybody else’
Stacey went on to insist she doesn’t care whether viewers caller a ‘gold digger’.
‘If you’re slagging off on me, I love it, I don’t care, call me gold digger, I’ll laugh. I love Gold Digger by Kanye West and that’s gonna be my ringtone. Don’t care,’ she said.
‘But, when you bring other people into it, kids. Juvenile kids. Innocent people, parties who did not sign the contract, that’s disgusting.’
‘I can handle it but not everybody else can’: Stacey also revealed she had seen her co-stars ‘crumbling’ from the ongoing abuse. Pictured with ‘husband’ Michael Goonan
Stacey also revealed she has seen her co-stars ‘crumbling’ from the ongoing abuse, with some unable to go to work because they were ‘depressed’.
‘I can handle it but not everyone else can. The fact that I’m consoling these people. I’m not even friends with all of them, and you know what? I would never say ‘go kill yourself’ – even to Hayley [Vernon].
Stacey urged viewers to ‘reassess their lives’ and ‘just be kind’.
‘Reassess your life’: Stacey urged viewers to ‘reassess their lives’ and ‘just be kind’