Katie Piper's pointed comment after vile troll targets her over her appearance

Katie Piper has shared a moving connection astir bravery portion speaking with the Mirror astatine the 2024 Pride of Britain Awards, pursuing a caller upsetting incidental with a cruel online troll

Katie Piper opened up astir what it means to beryllium brave astatine the Pride of Britain Awards - aft a week that's seen her contend with vile online abuse.

Arriving astatine the ceremonial alongside hubby Richard James Sutton, chic Katie exuded prima powerfulness successful a flowing ruby reddish gown accessorised with a silk roseate hairpiece. But down the glamour, the Loose Women prima has had to navigate a pugnacious roadworthy to her existent beingness of reddish carpets, TV enactment and high-profile campaigning.

As viewers settee successful to spot this year's Pride of Britain winners celebrated connected ITV this evening (October 24), galore volition beryllium struck by the courageousness of those nominated - immoderate of whom person had to flooded unthinkable odds. On the taxable of bravery, Katie has immoderate insightful thoughts, which she has shared with the Mirror.

Offering a almighty connection to readers, Katie told us: "I deliberation being brave is an absorbing conception due to the fact that it's ne'er truly a choice. It's often the lone prime that radical are near with. Watch things similar this, due to the fact that this is affirmative content. And if you tin ticker stories similar this. and you tin subordinate to it, you realise it's successful each and each 1 of us."

Katie besides reflected upon what the Pride of Britain Awards means to her, sharing: "It's specified a privilege to beryllium invited. 25 years is specified a peculiar twelvemonth and it continues to springiness this level to radical successful their communities doing large things that we mightiness not really get to work about."

Sadly, Katie, 41, has had to contend with hurtful and ignorant comments from cowardly individuals hiding down societal media accounts. Just past week Katie was forced to basal up to a disgraceful troll successful her Instagram remark section, who mockingly asked: "Where is your nose?" In response, Katie wrote: "Being pulled into my look by this scar tissue. It's incredibly painful."

Showing nary evident remorse, the vile troll past suggested to Katie that she leap from a window, successful a sickening remark Katie past screenshotted and shared via her page. In a abstracted slide, Katie said: "This is not ok, and it volition ne'er beryllium ok. If you tin constitute something, anything, antagonistic online and property 'post', you are a peculiar benignant of person. Publishing hatred into the world hurts everyone, including yourself. Don't remark connected my appearance, don't endanger my life, get disconnected the net and enactment quiet."

Katie was conscionable 24 years aged when, connected March 31, 2008, she was attacked successful wide daylight with a cupful of sulphuric acerb - an assailant acting nether the orders of her evil ex, Daniel Lynch. The consequent burns connected Katie's look were truthful terrible that doctors had to chopped distant the tegument completely, replacing it with an artificial substitute earlier rebuilding it utilizing grafts. Katie has since undergone immoderate 250 gruelling operations, and has proceeded to physique an extraordinarily palmy beingness for herself successful the look of important trauma.

After overcoming unthinkable odds, determined Katie has carved retired a sanction for herself arsenic a well-liked TV personality, documentary maker, author, and podcaster. Through her Katie Piper Foundation, the mum-of-two has dedicated her to supporting those surviving with burns and scars and was awarded an OBE for her singular services to foundation successful 2022.

And she has plentifulness much absorbing projects successful the pipeline. Katie told us: "I've conscionable finished filming successful America, making a documentary bid successful women's prisons. It's called 'Locked Up In Louisiana' and it's going to beryllium connected the W transmission astir March adjacent year."

• Don't miss the Pride of Britain Awards, Thursday 24th October, 8pm ITV1 and ITVX

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