Robin Williams' daughter Zelda quits Twitter after abuse from trolls

Zelda Williams has been left 'shaking' after trolls sent her fake images of her father Robin Williams after his death
Father and daughter: The actor posted a touching photograph on Instagram two weeks earlier that showed him holding a young Zelda Rae Williams
Emma Powell13 August 2014
The Weekender

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Robin Williams' daughter Zelda has quit Twitter and urged fans to report two users after they sent her abusive messages.

The grieving daughter of the late actor was sickened after receiving abusive messages from two users who go by the names of PimpStory and MrGoosebuster.

The trolls sent her fake Photoshopped pictures of her father supposedly from after his death.

She urged her 171,000 followers to report the pair, before announcing she was taking a break from the social media site-possibly forever.

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In a tweet that she later deleted she wrote: "Please report @PimpStory @MrGoosebuster. I'm shaking. I can't. Please. Twitter requires a link and I won't open it. Don't either. Please (sic)."

She then tweeted: "I'm sorry. I should've risen above. Deleting this from my devices for a good long time, maybe forever. Time will tell. Goodbye."

Fans were quick to show their support for the bereft daughter with one tweeting: "Regarding what has been tweeted to Zelda Williams...The vileness of some people is too unbelievable to comprehend."

Another tweeted: "@zeldawilliams that is the saddest and sickest thing I have ever seen. I am ashamed if (sic) humanity."

The two users' accounts have now been suspended.

Following the shock news of her father's death, the 25-year-old took to Twitter to pay tribute to Williams.

She shared a quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's literary classic The Little Prince that reads: "You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night... You - only you will have stars that can laugh."

She added: "I love you. I miss you. I'll try to keep looking up, Z."

She later released a moving statement in honour of her father, as did her half-brother Zak, 31, younger brother Cody, 22, and her mother - the actor's second wife - Marsha Garces.

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