AFLW star and professional boxer Tayla Harris and her parents have opened up about the online abuse and physical threats she received over a photo of her kicking a goal.
Key points:
- Tayla Harris says some of the comments about her on social media made her “feel physically sick”
- Her father Warren Harris says he wanted to “find these people and explain why they shouldn’t be talking to my daughter in this way”
- Harris says she is speaking out to help keep women in sport
The photo showing Harris kicking the opening goal against the Western Bulldogs in a game last year was swamped by abusive and sexist comments after it was posted on the Seven Network’s social media accounts.
“Some of the comments made me feel physically sick. They are disgusting as your wildest imagination,” Harris told 7.30.
Her father Warren Harris said he found the physical threats made against his daughter “really hard”.
“I’m not a big social media type of person, so I didn’t find out how bad it got until later on. Lisa [Harris’s mother] saw a lot more of it than I did,” he said.
