Sam Frost Has Spoken About The Emotional Toll Of Online Scrutiny After Ditching Her Social Media
"We don't have to prove the strength of our relationship for the entertainment of strangers via the fake bullshit world of social media."
The internet can be a pretty toxic place – particularly if you’re a woman in the public eye. We saw that earlier this week in the vicious social media reaction to the story about Kim Kardashian being robbed at gunpoint in Paris, and we can see it in the experience of former Bachelorette star and radio personality Sam Frost, whose entire public life has been characterised by unending media attention and online abuse.
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Frost took a break from social media earlier in the year, saying she had been broken by online “trolling.” Now she’s gone dark again, but not before calling out media outlets, first on Facebook, and then on her radio show on 2Day FM, for perpetuating nasty rumours about her personal life.
The tipping point came after gossip mag New Idea suggested Frost’s relationship with her boyfriend Sasha Mielczarek was in trouble due to the fact that they had stopped following each other on Instagram. “New Idea get a fucking life!” Frost wrote on Facebook yesterday. “For the one millionth time, Sash & I have not split. In fact we are stronger than ever.”
“We don’t have to prove the strength of our relationship for the entertainment of strangers via the fake bullshit world of social media.”
Frost has since deleted her Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts, telling her co-host Rove McManus on their 2Day FM radio program this morning that she had decided to go on “a digital detox.”
“It’s tiring constantly having to defend your relationship, because what, you haven’t posted a bloody photo on social media,” she said. “Spoilers guys: when we’re actually spending time together, we’re not going ‘oh you know what we should do, we should definitely make sure that we get a picture to make sure that people know we’re still together’.”
“I do have lovely people in my feeds that I love connecting with, but social media makes me feel extremely anxious and I don’t want it to make me feel like that anymore.”