Tearful influencer begs feminist to stop ‘trolling' her
Influencer Abbie Chatfield has broken down in tears, begging feminist Clementine Ford to stop making disparaging remarks about her amid their online stoush.
Chatfield, who rose to fame on TV's The Bachelor, had been trading barbs with the Adelaide-raised academic and writer.
In Ford's 'Dear Clementine' Substack blog, she recently called out Aussie influencers like Chatfield, who profit from being politically engaged, only to criticise people who challenge them.
But on Sunday, Chatfield said the fight had become too much and shared a clip of her weeping.
'I get it enough from people on the right and trolls and men that hate me and want to threaten me and want me dead. Please stop dehumanising me,' Chatfield said. Abbie Chatfield said: 'You don't know me at all, you're a stranger.' Credit: Instagram
'Please, you can criticise my content you can criticise my work just I'm begging you to stop lying about my intentions.'
'Stop saying that I have a personality disorder. You don't know me.
'This is so f****ing triggering I just want her to stop.'
Chatfield asked Ford to stop discouraging her from posting about the war in Gaza.
She went on to label Ford's actions as 'trolling', saying it was affecting her mental health.
'I'm scared of her ... I am begging you to stop' Chatfield said.
'You don't know me at all, you're a stranger. I deal with so much, every single day. I deal with insults every single day, I do not need it from you because you know that when you say it you validate it for people on the left.
'You are f**ing my mental health. Please f***ing stop.'
Chatfield went on to show screenshots made by Ford, who called her an 'idiotic narcissist', 'completely shallow' and a 'deeply basic thinker'. Chatfield dubbed them 'insults'.
Ford is a well-known writer, who penned feminist titles, Fight Like a Girl, and Boys Will Be Boys. Clementine Ford is a well-known writer, who penned feminist books including Fight Like a Girl. Credit: Don Arnold / WireImage
Earlier in the day, the fracas appeared to be a bit more light-hearted between the two women.
Chatfield said in a separate clip: 'She's literally writing a burn book about me and doing insults like, 'she thinks she's so hot, what a weirdo, oh my god'.'
A Burn Book is a reference to the 2004 film Mean Girls, which shows Queen Bee Regina George write disparaging remarks about classmates in a book shared with her friendship group.
Chatfield finished by saying Ford needed to take a step back from the 'internet' and opinion-sharing platform, 'Reddit'.
''Clementine, take a step back from the internet. Take a step back from Reddit please,' Chatfield said.
The two have clashed since Chatfield's interview with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, whom Ford has said was a 'war criminal' due to his support for the war in Gaza.
'No amount of fake crying to try to launder her complicity in doing PR for genocide supporters like [Anthony Albanese] can change that' Ford posted on Threads.
Ford added: 'She is completely shallow and frequently unable to actually prosecute an argument she hasn't cobbled together from uncredited sound bites gleaned from other people.'
Chatfield, whose podcast, It's A Lot, has more than 400,000 listeners per month, interviewed Albanese, back in February.
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