Fame doesn’t always have its upsides, as Jenna Ortega confided in an interview. The young star of the Netflix series Wednesdaywhose success was phenomenal, had to delete his Twitter account after receiving too many unhealthy messages.
Media exposure has its pros and cons… Jenna Ortega opened up about the downsides of early fame in the age of social media. Wednesday’s starwhose season 2 is coming to Netflix, and whose face is on the poster, in the cinema, of Beetlejuice Beetlejuicebegan her career at the age of 9. While the worldwide fame of the series that led to her meeting Tim Burton gave another dimension to her already flourishing career, the actress had to face the other price of success… unhealthy messages on social networks. Guest you Podcast you New York Times, The Interviewthe actress spoke about a period in her life when she was confronted with the perverse aspects of fame.Did I enjoy being 14 and creating a Twitter account because I was supposed to and seeing unhealthy content about myself as a child? No. It’s terrifying. It’s perverse. It’s wrong.” said Jenna Ortega who, as reported le site Entertainment Weeklyreturned to his unfortunate experience.
Jenna Ortega: “I was 12 years old…“, at the star of Wednesday (Netflix) was exposed to explicit content as a child
Comparing artificial intelligence to Pandora’s box, Jenna Ortega explained that it is now part of our lives, but that we will have to “manage the consequences“This distrust of new technologies is not new, because Jenna Ortega has suffered in the past from the perverse effects of media coverage on the Internet. As she testifies in the podcast, the young star was confronted with explicit content when she was a child.”One of the first – actually the first DM [message privé, ndlr] which I opened myself when I was 12 – was an unsolicited photo of a man’s genitals”she said. “And that was just the beginning…“.
Jenna Ortega: the star of Wednesday (Netflix) reveals why she decided to delete her Twitter account after the series’ release
A few years later, following the dazzling success of WednesdayJenna Ortega has decided to delete her Twitter account.I had an account because I was told I had to to develop my image, and I ended up deleting it two or three years later, because of the deluge of absurd images and photos after the series came out.she explained, “I was already in such a state of confusion that I decided to delete my account“. “It was disgusting and it hurt me. It made me feel uncomfortable.” she adds about the messages she received.I woke up one day and thought: “I don’t need this anymore, so I just deleted my account.” A decision she believes is essential to her well-being. Because although she is grateful for her international success, Jenna Ortega has confided that it has taken a toll on her mental health.I should be having so much fun right now. So much! And I’m not. And I should be. And I try to remind myself of that..”
