Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda, quit Twitter and Instagram after receiving insensitive images and comments about her father.
Mashable, a British-American news website on social media, brought out the story on Wednesday.
"I'm sorry. I should've risen above. Deleting this from my devices for a good long time, maybe forever. Time will tell. Goodbye," the actress, 25, tweeted late Tuesday night.
She issued a longer statement on her Tumblr, directed at the Internet trolls who reportedly sent her photoshopped pictures of her father’s dead body that said: “As for those who are sending negativity, know that some small, giggling part of him is sending a flock of pigeons to your house to poop on your car. Right after you’ve had it washed. After all, he loved to laugh too."
She also issued a statement on Instagram, accompanying a photo of a butterfly with a caption that read: “I will be leaving this account for a but while I heal and decide if I'll be deleting it or not. In this difficult time, please try to be respectful of the accounts of myself, my family and my friends. Mining our accounts for photos of dad, or judging me on the number of them is cruel and unnecessary.”
Williams asked her Twitter followers to report two of the accounts responsible for the abuse. "Please report @PimpStory @MrGoosebuster. I’m shaking. I can’t. Please. Twitter requires a link and I won’t open it. Don’t either. Please,” she wrote. Zelda later deleted the tweet.
Twitter suspended the two accounts. A third, @rustIedjimmies, was still tweeting abuse about Williams' daughter on Wednesday morning, but Twitter then suspended that account too.
“We will not tolerate abuse of this nature on Twitter," Del Harvey, VP of Trust and Safety at Twitter tells Mashable in an emailed statement.
Robin Williams was found dead on Monday after hanging himself. He was 63 years old.