Lena Dunham has said that abuse and threats from Twitter trolls left her feeling a "mess" - and she has responded by hiring her own personal tweeter.
The Girls creator admitted that she finds it difficult to deal with the level of abuse that she receives online, despite her reputation for not caring what other people think.
"This is advice I would have for everyone - whether you have a million followers or whether you have seven followers, because we all deal with the complexity of people being able to say things to you anonymously from behind the veil of the internet - which is that you think you can take it all.
"[You're] like, 'Oh my god, that's so funny, somebody called me a fat cow who deserves to be dragged through the street,' but it does affect you internally," Dunham said during a Q&A session at the annual PaleyFest in Los Angeles, Variety reported.
Speaking at the Golden Globes in January, Dunham said that she had been forced to delete Twitter from her phone, in order to "create a safer space for myself emotionally".