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Erin Moriarty
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Boys Star Erin Moriarty announced she was leaving Instagram on Thursday following allegations from Megyn Kelly that Moriarty underwent plastic surgery.
“We are all subject to levels of harassment throughout our lives, but I am horrified and felt I deserved to take a second to address these things.” Moriarty wrote in a long two slide post. “Receiving a message about a disgustingly fake video, counterproductive to the point of being ironically misogynistic, of Megyn Kelly commenting on the manner, and learning the widespread nature of this has left me horrified.”
Kelly aired a segment with The daily cableMichael Knowles’ Michael Knowles on the January 17 episode of his podcast calling plastic surgery a “social disease” in which Kelly said Moriarty was an example of someone with an “addiction” to cosmetic procedures. Kelly then showed a picture of Moriarty that she said was “relatively recent” and described the photo as a “nice, beautiful, natural girl” before showing a newer photo of Moriarty that looked substantially different.
“I thought, ‘Is this an AI-generated face’… but apparently it’s real,” he said. “She has done this to herself.”
In her Instagram post, Moriarty reiterated that she is “horrified” by the reactions to Kelly’s video, calling it a “prime example” of harassment that “broke my heart.”
“Social media was my ability to connect with fans,” Moriarty wrote. “My ability to work, but also to share, brands that I believe in independently and otherwise. To share news or updates. But I am deciding to invest my energy in working at my job.”
“You have lost the privilege of this account. so you can believe what you want,” the actress continued. “But there is no excuse for these horrible accusations, the verbal abuse that I have had to delete and the genuinely false information that is being used to perpetrate a message that is exhibitionist feminism. You don’t have to believe me when I say that these videos are absolutely false, but the way this has been talked about, the way they have talked to me, I will not accept it.