FKA Twigs reveals mugging horror
British singer Fka Twigs has revealed she was mugged after leaving a yoga studio near her home in east London.
Twigs, real name Tahliah Debrett Barnett, is who reportedly engaged to Hollywood star Robert Pattinson, told Britain's Sunday Times Magazine about the robbery, but refused to go into detail, saying, "I was mugged outside the yoga studio."
She also told the publication that she recently broke down over
racist comments from online trolls after she replied to a fan on
Twitter.com whose friend was dying of cancer.
The fan tweeted a picture of himself with his ill friend in
hospital, and revealed the young woman listened to Twigs' music to
cheer herself up. However, the singer was stunned when they were
subsequently bombarded with nasty comments.
She says, "They all started attacking her. Within 20 seconds it was
just like n**ga, monkey, ugly, die b**ch, all this stuff on his
feed. It broke my heart... this lady who is really sick and is
probably going to die... Sometimes people are going to treat you
differently because of the color of your skin. Sometimes you're
going to have to work 10 times harder than somebody else to get the
same appreciation, but never use it as an excuse."