Sara Guglielmetti Sabrina Salerno has shared a private message wishing her cancer would die. The singer may also pursue legal action. Here are all the details.
"I hope you die of cancer": Shocking insults directed at Sabrina Salerno on social media.
"You're dying of cancer ": this is the shocking private message someone sent to singer Sabrina Salerno, who decided to make it public, sharing her outrage with her followers: " I thought I'd read everything on social media, but there's always someone who manages to surprise you." In the post, the singer first wanted to make a clear distinction between criticism, even the harshest, and attacks that target human dignity and suffering.
While she understands that fame inevitably brings with it conflicting opinions and judgments, there's a line she believes shouldn't be crossed. Wishing someone to die of cancer is repugnant and, as Salerno emphasized, even disturbing, especially to someone you don't even know. The artist's message is clear: she doesn't intend to consider this form of aggression normal and doesn't want it to be accepted as an inevitable consequence of being on social media: " I don't pretend to please everyone.
Criticism, judgment, even dislike are part of life, especially when you're a public figure. But wishing someone would die of cancer isn't criticism, it's not freedom of expression. It's the sign of an inhumanity that I find deeply disturbing.
Sabrina Salerno: "I might consider legal action."
In her message, Sabrina Salerno also added that she is evaluating the appropriate legal action against the person who wrote her that message, wishing her to die of cancer : “Cancer is not an insult.
It's a disease that brings suffering to the lives of millions of people and their families. And it deserves respect. I don't intend to get used to this dehumanizing trend. And above all, I don't intend to accept it on my social media. As for those who wrote to me, please know that I'm evaluating the appropriate legal measures. Because it's one thing to dislike someone. It's another to wish them dead. And if this has become the norm, then we have a much bigger problem than social media."