Finally at age 31, Bruce Willis’ daughter Tallulah is blasting the snarky celebrity columnist who cruelly bullied her online about having a chin like her action-movie-star dad and made her want to commit suicide at age 13.
In a recent social media post of photos of her and the Die Hard legend, the Bandits actress writes that she’s now proud to look like her 70-year-old father, who’s tragically battling dementia.
“My Lordy! if I am NOT this man’s child,” reads her caption. “The face, the smile, dare I say it the chin.”
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Tallulah says the resemblance to her father now makes her feel “so full and emotional,” but as a young girl she was devastated by Hilton’s online taunting that nearly drove her to end it all.
“hey @perez remember when you bullied a 13 year old for money? that made me want to end it all, is now the most precious gift I could be bestowed with,” she writes. Bruce’s daughter says the bullying made her so feel ashamed that for years she “used to not be able to say the word chin out loud” feeling it was “my dirty sinful malady, center stage for all the world to see.”
Instagram/Perez Hilton
She continues, “At least that’s what you guys said, over and over and over and over. What a cursed child I was for inheriting this joyful, expressive feature, alive with emotion! I’m angry at the adults [who] planted the seeds of self hate, and I’m proud of myself for the work I’ve [done] to rip that hate out from the roots!”
While Hilton didn’t reply publicly at the time this article went to press, he claimed to have sent Tallulah a private message, per People.
Meanwhile, the kids of other celebs flocked to support Bruce’s girl.
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Model-actress Ireland Baldwin, 30-year-old daughter of Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin, noted that “Perez Hilton bullied me about my chin at some point too!!!! Yayyyy chins!!!!”
The daughter of supermodel Christie Brinkley, Sailor Brinkley Cook, 27, writes: “We all have a Perez story … you’re as gorgeous as you are powerful.”