I received death treath after dumping my ex.Bella

“[I] was getting death threats for a hot minute because they thought I had cheated on my ex, which is a total lie,” Thorne told People magazine. “When I wo 

Thorne says the backlash she received online was hard to take.

“It doesn’t feel good to think that everybody in the world just thinks you’re an absolutely disgusting person and just because I’m somebody where people know my name, it’s so much worse for me,” Thorne told People. “And people think that, like, we don’t get bullied in Hollywood — but we do! We get bullied by the public eye and fans and it’s really, let me tell you, it f—ing hurts.”

Thorne views this experience as a lesson in how to handle bullies.

“I’m letting kids know like, ‘If somebody’s being rude to you, you have the right to stick up for yourself,’” Thorne, 19, said. “When I see [bullying] on other people’s pages, I respond because it irks me to my core.”