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13 August 2014updated 28 Jun 2021 4:44am

Robin Williams’s daughter Zelda leaves social media after abuse

Yet again, a prominent woman is driven from Twitter because she dares to exist.

By Ian Steadman

Congratulations are in order to the scumbags of the world, who can claim to have driven another woman into deleting her Twitter account.

Zelda Williams, the 25-year-old daughter of Robin Williams, has had to deal with the death of her father both in private and in public. Her immediate statement after the news of Robin’s death on Monday was to post a beautiful quote by Little Prince author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

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