Robert Pattinson is usually pretty private about his personal life -- but there's one thing he just can't keep quiet about: The racist criticism of his fiancee, FKA twigs.
Calling the performer "an amazing artist," he went on to speak out against some of the online comments the two have seen since going public with their relationship.
"I was talking to my dad about this and I bet him that if he looked up Nelson Mandela's funeral on YouTube, the first comment would be a racist one," Pattinson told NME about the cruel Internet mindset. "And it was, with like a million upvotes. What I don't get is why. I think it's because most normal people are not commenters -- I've never met anyone who's left a comment on anything. It's just demons who live in basements. You have this weird thing where you end up trying to fight against this faceless blob, where the more you hate it, the bigger it gets, because it's all in your head."
twigs herself has already touched on the subject many times.
"I am genuinely shocked and disgusted at the amount of racism that has been infecting my account the past week," she tweeted after the two started dating. "Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online."
"It is pretty horrible," she added in another interview with Complex. "But ultimately, I'm in an amazing relationship. So it doesn't matter."
Later in the NME interview, Pattinson admits he also Googles himself from time to time, to "reinforce my negative opinion of myself. I go through periods where I don't do it at all and feel glorious! Then I'll fall back into this pit. It really does affect you, and it all comes from some moron sitting on a comment board. It's always that person who's needling away at you, who you either want to destroy, or convince them to love you."
Maybe its best to stay offline?
