Nat Bass takes aim at ‘vicious, horrific’, homophobic ‘haters’ on social media
Singer Natalie Bassingthwaighte has called out homophobic trolls and paparazzi stalkers after going public with her new girlfriend: “It’s a load of crap … and I want it to stop” | WATCH
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Australian performer Natalie Bassingthwaighte has addressed the “vicious hate” and trolling she’s received on social media since going public with her new same-sex relationship, following the end of her 12-year marriage.
In a two-part video posted to her Instagram on Thursday morning, Bassingthwaighte told trolls and paparazzi: “I want it to stop.”
The 48-year-old singer started by thanking her 210,000 followers for “all the love and support” she has received since her Stellar magazine cover came out last Monday, and so did she.
“It has been so beautiful and I’m so incredibly grateful for that,” she said.
“On the flip side, with love comes hate. I’m not a hater, I’ve never been a hater,” Bassingthwaighte continued with a lump in her throat.
“I don’t understand it. I don’t understand how people have time to go on people’s pages and comment so viciously and horrifically and intentionally to make people feel awful. It’s not accepted on my page and I won’t have it,” she said.
From now on, she added, her team will be reviewing comments on her page and “blocking anyone who says anything negative towards my family.”
“That includes Cam. That includes my kids, and that includes my girlfriend. We all deserve respect and love because we are all human. We all cry, we all bleed, we all suffer.”
Cameron McGlinchey – whom she married in 2011 and with whom she shares daughter Harper, 13, and son Hendrix, 10 – was supportive of Bassingwaithe making her new love public.
“I rang Cam and I was hysterical. And he said, ‘It’s OK. This is your truth and you now have to sit in it and stand in it and own it.’ So to have that support from him has been nothing short of beautiful, and I’m very grateful for it,” she told the magazine.
Reports first surfaced in August that Bassingthwaighte and McGlinchey, parents to two children, had gone their separate ways.
While Nat Bass stayed silent at the time, she said the media interest in their split was “challenging” and “overwhelming.”
That has not been dispelled by her coming out, but worsened by the unveiling of her girlfriend’s identity last weekend.
“I won’t accept paparazzi coming to my front door, following my friends, making up stories about us,” Bassingthwaighte continued in her video.
“It’s a load of crap, it’s not acceptable and I want to stop. Be kind. You don’t know what people are going through, you really don’t.”
Last Saturday, the Rogue Trader’s frontwoman was supported by her partner Pip Loth at her first big gig since going public with the news: Supporting US pop star Christina Aguilera at her one-off Melbourne concert.
Nat Bass shared a compilation of pictures and video from the day on Instagram, and among the vision were a couple of images of her happily holding hands with Loth.
“There are a lot bigger things going on in the world right now. I won’t tolerate it. Haters hate,” she continued.
“It’s a dangerous slippery slope. Focus on yourself, focus on being the best version of yourself you can be and that will radiate out. Hate just brings more hate and I don't have any hate in my life. I don’t. I’m happy. I’m safe. I’m well. And I wish you nothing but the same.”
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