DEATH THREATS RUINED M.I.A.’S PREGNANCY
M.I.A. has revealed she received death threats while she was pregnant wit h her first child IKHYD over comments she made about her native Sri Lanka ..
The outspoken hitmaker, who is the daughter of a Tamil separatist, was targeted online by people who didn’t agree with her views - and some comm ents were really distressing because they also targeted her unborn baby.
M.I.A. tells online newspaper the Huffington Post, "People were sending me death threats and telling me bad s**t about my kid. People would writ e on Twitter and YouTube, ‘Your baby is going to die,’ because I was talk ing about the Sri Lankan government and the issues that were going on the re." But the threats fell on deaf ears and blind eyes because M.I.A. has alw ays felt as if her life was spared during a frightening encounter when sh e was eight so she could speak up for Sri Lankans.
She explains, "I just saw something when I was eight and they didn’t ki ll me. I am alive to say this is what happened… I survived it and I’m g oing to tell you my account of it, just like Jewish people get to talk ab out the Holocaust and we embrace it.
"Even though I had all this amazing success, at the same time I was wat ching this crazy destruction going on over there. No one really wanted to talk about it and then all these people were reaching out to me to talk about it because I am the only one that can represent them. At the same t ime I was pregnant and I didn’t want to have to deal with that s**t, but I had no choice."
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