Robin Williams' daughter Zelda has returned to Twitter, three weeks after the death of her beloved father. The 25-year-old had quit her social media account after receiving a string of abusive messages in the days after her father's death.
On Monday afternoon, Zelda posted her first message since August 13, simply telling her 216,000 followers: "Thank you," alongside a link to her Tumblr page that features a post on bullying. "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself," she wrote, quoting actor Harvey Fierstein, who starred alongside her dad in his hit 1993 movie Mrs Doubtfire.
After Robin took his own life on August 11 at his San Francisco home, Zelda shared a heartbreaking message with her Twitter followers to express her grief. The actress posted a quote from Antonie De Saint-Exuprery's book The Little Prince, writing: "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 the stars that can laugh."
She added: "I love you. I miss you. I'll try to keep looking up. Z."
Robin Williams' daughter Zelda, seen here in a throwback photo posted to Instagram by the star shortly before his death
But Zelda soon became the victim of online abuse, forcing her to plead with her thousands of followers to report two Twitter users after they posted a fake mortuary photograph of her father's body. "I'm shaking. I can't. Please. Twitter requires a link and I won't open it. Don't either. Please," she posted before writing her final message:
"I'm sorry. I should've risen above. Deleting this from my devices for a good long time, maybe forever. Time will tell. Goodbye."
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