Barry Keoghan is asking the internet to please please please be kinder.
The actor revealed that he went into hiding after his breakup with Sabrina Carpenter led to a slew of online bullying.
“There’s a lot of hate online. It’s a lot of abuse of how I look,” Keoghan said while on SiriusXM’s “The Morning Mash Up” on Friday.
“I think I removed myself from online, but I’m still a curious human being that wants to go on and, if I attend an event or if I go somewhere, you want to see how it was received,” he continued. “And it’s not nice.”
The Irish star even admitted to avoiding public appearances due to the constant harassment.
“It’s becoming a problem,” Keoghan confessed. “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.”
The “Saltburn” actor is also afraid of how the noise will impact his 3-year-old son, Brando, whom he shares with his ex-girlfriend Alyson Sandro.
“It is disappointing for the fans, but it’s also disappointing that my little boy has to read all of this stuff when he gets older,” he stated.
