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Piers Morgan reveals police are investigating death threat against him and son Spencer
Piers Morgan has revealed police are investigating death threats against him and his eldest son Spencer.
In February the former Good Morning Britain star, who sensationally quit the show this month, said he had given a statement to police after an online troll told him he was ‘a marked man’.
The TV presenter has written in the Mail on Sunday about his departure from the ITV programme, which came after he expressed disbelief on air about Meghan Markle’s comments about her mental health during her interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Piers said his three sons – Spencer, Albert and Stanley – are ‘being targeted’ online too, and have shown him ‘screenshots of venomous abuse and threats of violence towards them, which made my stomach churn, especially as police are already investigating a death threat made to me and my eldest boy Spencer last month.’
Piers went on: ‘None of them even care about Meghan Markle, let alone agree with my views on her. Yet the Twitter troll mob has found them guilty by association.
‘One troll vowed to murder me in front of them, and added: “When your dad dies, the world will have a party.”‘
It comes as the Life Stories host continues his campaign against ‘cancel culture’.
Highlighting that there are differences between ‘someone’s truth’ and ‘actual truth’, Piers said he could not be labelled racist simply because he did not believe parts of Meghan’s interview.
‘It’s about a far bigger issue than one delusional duchess, and that’s everyone’s right to be free to express our honestly held opinions, forcefully and passionately if we feel like it,’ he wrote.
The newsreader went on that he is ‘not a victim and I haven’t been cancelled’, and the past two weeks had in fact been one of the most exciting and affirming periods of his life, but added ‘if our rights to free speech are denied, then democracy as we know it will die’.
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