Zelda Williams quits Twitter over troll abuse
She first urged her followers to report the trolls, before announcing she was taking a break from the social media site, possibly forever.
She wrote in a tweet which she then deleted: “Please report @PimpStory @MrGoosebuster. I’m shaking. I can’t. Please. Twitter requires a link and I won’t open it. Don’t either. Please (sic).
She then wrote: “I’m sorry. I should’ve risen above. Deleting this from my devices for a good long time, maybe forever. Time will tell. Goodbye.”
The two users’ accounts have now been suspended.
Following her father’s shock death, 25-year-old Zelda used the social network to pay tribute to him.
She shared a quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s literary classic The Little Prince that reads: “You — you alone will have the stars as no one else has them… In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night… You — only you will have stars that can laugh.”
She added: “I love you. I miss you. I’ll try to keep looking up, Z.”
She later released a moving statement in honour of her father, as did her half-brother Zak, 31, younger brother Cody, 22, and her mother, the actor’s second wife, Marsha Garces.
The Oscar-winning actor and groundbreaking comedian took his own life in his Northern California home after he had sought treatment for depression, a coroner said, based on preliminary findings.
Williams had been open about his struggles with alcohol and cocaine and in the past months had entered a rehabilitation centre to help him maintain sobriety.
But many questions have remained over what could have led him to take his own life.
Williams’ publicist, Mara Buxbaum, said on Monday that he had been suffering from severe depression, and Boyd acknowledged that he had been seeking treatment without giving more details.
Meanwhile a neighbour and friend of Williams, who asked not to be named, said the actor resented having to do a second Mrs Doubtfire movie. He was struggling with financial pressures and dreaded doing movies roles just for money.
“Robin had promised himself he would not do any more as he invested so much in his roles that it left him drained and particularly vulnerable to depressive episodes,” the friend said.
“He signed up to do them purely out of necessity. He wasn’t poor, but the money wasn’t rolling in any more and life is expensive when you have to pay off two ex-wives and have a family to support.
“He didn’t like being away from the family for too long, which was a big issue for him when he was shooting films,” the friend said. “That’s why he agreed to do the TV show [The Crazy Ones]. It was filmed nearby in San Francisco and they were very flexible with him.
“He was hit hard when they cancelled it — it was helping him pay the bills.”
He was reportedly paid $165,000 (€123,000) per episode for the first season, which was aired on CBS.
