Erin Moriarty’s Instagram has gone cold after the “Boys” star slammed Megyn Kelly for making unfounded claims that she underwent several cosmetic procedures.
Moriarty, 29, explained Friday that she was not deleting her account so fans could see her statement bashing Kelly’s offensive comments but that she would no longer be using the social media platform.
“The only reason I have not deactivated my account is because I will be leaving this [statement] here. Otherwise, consider it deactivated,” she wrote in a lengthy post.
“I will not have access to it for an extensive if not permanent break.”
While Moriarty believes that social media is a place where she can connect and share updates with her followers, she has decided to focus on work.
“Social media is not something that came naturally to me and that was an investment of energy to connect with you guys. And I am horrified by the reaction, the reductive assumptions, and the aforementioned video [of Kelly’s comments] that is a primary example of such harassment,” she shared.
“It’s broken my heart. You’ve broken my heart. You’ve lost the privilege of this account.”
Moriarty said internet users could believe what they wanted, but the accusations were “absolutely false.”
“The way that this has been spoken about, the way that I have been spoken to, I will not accept,” she wrote, calling the former Fox News host’s message “exhibitionist feminism.”
“I have been in a hole and I’ve been consumed by this personal situation at hand. You never know what someone is going through, social media is a platform that is not representative of a whole person, and irregardless there is no excuse for the words that have been spoken directly to me or about me.”
Kelly, 53, went on a long-winded rant about Moriarty’s appearance during the Jan. 17 episode of her eponymous SiriusXM show, claiming the actress had plastic surgery and received injections to “completely change her face.”
“She’s got the Kim Kardashian lips. She’s made her nose so skinny it looks like a pencil now. She’s got, like, what appear to me to be cheek implants,” she said. “More and more young women are doing this.”
The fired NBC host then sensationally called getting work done “a sign of mental illness.”
“It’s not about an objection to plastic surgery, it’s about an obsession with turning yourself into this fake version of yourself,” she said. “I find it, like, a sign of mental illness. It’s extremely upsetting. It’s a massive turn-off to me. I just really want to get in the heads of these young girls and say, ‘Please don’t do this.'”
Kelly also showed what she claimed were “before” and “after” photos of Moriarty from a year ago and now to highlight her transformation.
However, Moriarty clarified in Friday’s Instagram post that she was not even 21 years old in Kelly’s “before” photo and had had her makeup done in the “after” shot.
“This is something I truly never anticipated writing. We’re all subject to levels of bullying throughout our lives but I am horrified, and I felt that I deserved to take a second to address these things,” she wrote.
“To receive a message about a disgustingly false, counterproductive to the degree of being ironically misogynistic video of Megyn Kelly commenting on the manner — to learn the widespread nature of this has left me horrified.”
Moriarty ended her last post to social media by calling on Kelly to resign over spreading misinformation.
“Implying my photo is reflective of women being in a worse place is as false as my conviction in saying that if you resigned, you would be leaving women in a better place,” she wrote.
