Hartlepool model Chelsea Ferguson's heartfelt plea to internet trolls after death of Caroline Flack

Model Chelsea Ferguson, who runs an adult website with her cousin in Hartlepool and has thousands of followers on social media, posted a candid video on YouTube reading out some of the hundreds of hateful comments she has received online and how it contributed to her feeling suicidal.

Numerous people said they wished Chelsea would die, get AIDs, called her ugly and shockingly even wished her mum would die while she was fighting cancer, which she tragically did.

Chelsea, 30, said: “Once you hear someone speak them, they’re words that someone would probably never say out loud to a person but think they can type it on the internet and it has no repercussions.”

Talking of Caroline Flack who took her own life at the weekend, Chelsea added: “No-one should ever have to feel that low that suicide’s their only option.

“I have felt that low, I have tried things. I was in hospital.”

In a direct appeal to social media users she added: “Please will you just think twice before you write negative comments about somebody else’s appearance or anything about them.

“You might be the one last comment that drives them over the edge to suicide. I don’t want to see another Caroline Flack.”

Chelsea broke down in tears when talking about the horrible messages she received during her mum’s illness saying it was the hardest time of her life.

She said: “I was suicidal. It’s not human to act like that.”

Chelsea also spoke about how she would not leave the house without sunglasses as people’s comments about her appearance made her very self-conscious about her looks.

She said she still receives abusive comments from online trolls including recently when she posted about buying a Lamborghini with her earnings.

Explaining her reasons for posting the YouTube video, she added: “If it will make one, two, 10 or 50 people change the way they speak about other people online then it will be worthwhile.”