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Barry Keoghan hits out at ‘disgusting’ online trolls using his son against him

Saltburn actor tells Louis Theroux Podcast about his difficult childhood and decision to keep his child offline

Speaking on Spotify’s The Louis Theroux Podcast, he spoke extensively about the damaging impact of online trolling, as well as his own difficult childhood in foster care and the death of his mother after struggling with drug addiction. Keoghan said his son’s absence from his social media means “people draw a narrative and go ‘absent father, shit, deadbeat dad’ and more disgusting things I wouldn’t even repeat. He spoke in a similar vein about the trolls who comment on his appearance, “especially on TikTok … people can sit there and make videos and be like ‘I don’t like his face, he looks weird, or he looks evil’ and just pick you apart.”

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