Leslie Jones' Twitter troll: 'i was doing God's work'

one of the most Twitter trolls who pressured Ghostbusters superstar Leslie Jones off Twitter prior this year has long gone public insisting he's now not sorry for attacking her on-line.

Milo Yiannopoulos tells U.S. news show Nightline he was doing "God's work" when he took intention at the Saturday evening are living ordinary, using racist and misogynistic messages that led the 48-year-historical to briefly give up social media.

Yiannopoulos hit a low when he compared Jones to an ape almost immediately after the unencumber of Ghostbusters in July. however he insists he became justified in tweeting what he did.

"Trolling is awfully critical," he talked about in a taped interview set to air on Friday. "i like to believe of myself as a virtuous troll... I'm doing God's work."

Jones complained to Twitter bosses in regards to the severity of Yiannopoulos' tweets and they banned him from the social networking platform, however that just fuelled his hatred for Jones - and now he insists the theory of celebrities playing the victim is inaccurate.

He tells Nightline, "This idea that celebrities are these fragile wallflowers, supply me a spoil," he informed Nightline. "That the celebrities of Hollywood blockbusters are sitting at domestic crying into their iPhones."

The troll may had been banned from Twitter but his tweets caused others to attack Jones - and that eventually triggered her to sign off of all platforms.

"It's simply too plenty. It shouldn't be like this," she wrote before quitting Twitter in late July. "So damage at this time."

Leslie opened up about the online attacks during an appearance on Seth Meyers' late evening display within the U.S. on 21 July, revealing, "What's frightening in regards to the entire factor is that the insults didn't damage me. unluckily, I'm used to the insults. That's unlucky, but what scared me become the injustice of a gang of americans jumping in opposition t you for such a in poor health trigger.

"It's so gross and imply and unnecessary. So it became similar to a kind of issues like, 'adequate, if I hadn't spoke of anything, nobody would have ever knew about this (sic). All those americans nonetheless would have an account."