Tiffany Haddish said she got so much hate that she made a fake Instagram, hunted down her trolls, and confronted them

Eammon Jacobs
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Tiffany Haddish at the 25th Annual Mark Twain Prize For American Humor.
Tiffany Haddish at the 25th Annual Mark Twain Prize For American Humor.Paul Morigi/Getty Images
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  • Tiffany Haddish described taking revenge on people trolling her online.

  • The actor and comedian said she used a fake profile to hunt down where mean comments came from.

  • Many were fake, she said, but some trails led to real people whom she confronted.

Tiffany Haddish said she got so much hate online that she used a fake Instagram profile to hunt down her trolls, and even called some of them directly.

Haddish has starred in movies including "Girls Trip," "Night School," and Haunted Mansion," and is also a standup comedian with two Netflix specials.

Celebrities have long complained about anonymous attacks on social media, where it's common advice to just ignore it.

Haddish is a rare example of somebody famous taking matters into their own hands.

She said tolling has been a problem for her since September 2022, when an unnamed woman filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles, alleging that Haddish groomed her and her brothers to star in "sexually suggestive acts in sketches," The Daily Beast first reported.

The case was dismissed when the plaintiff rescinded her accusation a few weeks later.

Speaking to The LA Times, Haddish said she decided to fight back, creating a fake Instagram profile under the name "Sarah," to track her haters down.

A lot of the comments called the star "pedo" and "not funny." She said she hired a digital-forensics analyst who concluded that 75% of those comments came from fake accounts created by "robots in Malaysia and Iran."

"I've learned how to find people's information — like I pull up the credit report, police records. You can do that for $1.99," she explained. "Sometimes, I get so mad that I'll get they phone number and I'll just call them."

"They be shocked that I called," she told The Times. "They'll be like, 'I can't believe you even saw that.' You did a whole video, bitch! You made a full, five-minute video!"

"On the internet, people think they can just say whatever and you not gonna say anything. I try my best not to, but I'm a human being," she said.

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