'Star Wars' actress Kelly Marie Tran left social media after racist and sexist trolls drove her to therapy

• Tran suffered months of online hate after starring in 2017's "The Last Jedi."
• The actress said she's "much happier" now that she's not online.
• "I've had my agents tell me [I'm] forgoing brand partnerships, but I'm not here to sell flat-tummy tea to young girls," she told The Hollywood Reporter.

After being plucked from obscurity to play Rose Tico in 2017's "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," Kelly Marie Tran has felt the brunt of what it's like to be on the wrong side of fame.

Tran, 32, said she constantly faced racist and hateful things being spewed at her on the internet, which made her leave social media in 2018, revealing to The Hollywood Reporter that it got so bad that she had to go to therapy.

It's there that the star of the upcoming Disney Plus movie, "Raya and the Last Dragon," said she learned something very important.

"If someone doesn't understand me or my experience, it shouldn't be my place to have to internalize their misogyny or racism or all of the above," she said. "Maybe they just don't have the imagination to understand that there are different types of people living in the world."

The online hate towards Tran, who became the first Asian-American casted in a lead role in a "Star Wars" movie, lasted months following the release of "The Last Jedi" and led to her "Star Wars" cast mates coming to her defense.

Mark Hamill, who plays Luke Skywalker in the saga, took to social media and told the haters to #GetALifeNerds.

—Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) June 6, 2018

"The Last Jedi" director, Rian Johnson, tweeted, "What we talk about when we talk about manbabies," after Tran left social media.

—Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) June 5, 2018

But there's no coming back for Tran, who also starred in "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker." The actress told THR that she's in a better place since going offline.

"I've truly just been so much happier without being on the internet," she said. "I've had my agents tell me [I'm] forgoing brand partnerships, but I'm not here to sell flat-tummy tea to young girls."

Tran is not the only "Star Wars" actress to leave social media due to hateful trolls.

In 2016, Daisy Ridley, who played Rey in the most recent trilogy, left Instagram saying it was bad for her mental health.