Former Bachelorette contestant and Vancouver resident Kaitlyn Bristowe says when she was on the popular reality TV show she was cyberbullied so badly that she was getting death threats.
Bristowe, who is now engaged to contestant Shawn Booth, is in town for the CKNW Orphan’s Fund Pink Shirt Day luncheon where she is the special guest and will be talking about online bullying.
She said she still gets the occasional message on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram attacking her.
“It was just shocking to me because I don’t feel like I ever had a problem in my life with bullying and growing up I got along with everybody,” she said.
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She said sometimes she would call people out and respond to them for sending those messages to her.
“I think sometimes people think I’m a character on a TV show, that I’m not an actual human being, so as soon as I respond or call them out they will delete their comment or apologize, which I think is a step in the right direction,” she said.
“It didn’t affect me in a way where I was really down on myself. I was like ‘this is ridiculous’ and I’m 30 years old so I’m comfortable with who I am. I think of young kids going through that and how fragile they are and I wouldn’t have been able to deal with this if it was 10 years ago.”
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