Hollywood Trolling Horror — A-Listers Tell All About How They've Been Relentlessly Bullied Over Their Looks
Hollywood trolling horror shows A-listers bullied over their looks and revealing lasting impact.
April 26 2026, Published 2:45 p.m. ET
Stars open up about hurtful comments about their appearance, from body-shaming to ageism and more. Read on and find out as Breaking Celebrity News reveals who these celebs are.
Barry Keoghan
Barry Keoghan, 33, recently opened up about what it's like to be mocked for his looks. "It's not nice," the Oscar nominee said on SiriusXM's The Morning Mash Up March 19. "It's a lot of abuse of how I look... I actually don't go to places because of these things."
Currently filming as Ringo Starr in the four-movie Beatles biopics, he admitted that the criticism has even seeped into his work. "When that starts leaking into your art, it becomes a problem, because then you don't even want to be onscreen anymore." Breaking Celebrity News can reveal.
Barry Keoghan said criticism of his looks while filming Ringo Starr in 'The Beatles' biopics has affected his desire to be onscreen.
Julia Roberts
Even Julia Roberts is not immune to digs at her looks. In 2024, the 58-year-old posted a pic with her niece Emma Roberts after a sleepover. "We got up and we were having tea and playing cards and having this beautiful morning," she recalled.
"It was great. I felt great about it." Her good feeling soon turned to dismay, she said, with "the amount of people that felt absolutely required to talk about how terrible I looked in the picture – that I'm not aging well, people saying, 'God, I didn't even recognize her.'"
The experience made the Oscar winner empathize with girls growing up on social media. "I thought, God, what if I was 15?" she said, adding that the obsession with "clicks" and "likes" does something "neurological" to young people.
Julia Roberts said comments about her appearance in a photo with Emma Roberts made her empathize with young girls on social media.
Leslie Jones
Leslie Jones's online harassment became national news in 2016, with the Department of Homeland Security investigating the hacking of the 58-year-old's personal website. Online trolls objected to the all-female reboot of the 1984 classic Ghostbusters and began a campaign of racist and sexist attacks on the star.
Among the hateful messages, the Rio Olympics commentator was sent obscene pictures and called an ape. "I'm tryin' to figure out what human means," she responded, saying she was taking a break from social media. "I'm out."
Kristen Johnston
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