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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Vayntrub, who played Lily in several <keyword id="28808" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="ATT">AT&amp;T</keyword> commercials, opened up about facing <keyword id="1423058" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="online-harassment">online harassment</keyword>.</li><li>The "<keyword id="11558929" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="werewolves-within">Werewolves Within</keyword>" star said she was "surprised" by the support she received from fans.</li><li>"It was surprising in every way, in the support and in the controversy," she told Insider. </li></ul><keyword id="4750764" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="milana-vayntrub">Milana Vayntrub</keyword> revealed in a new interview with Insider that she was "surprised" by the support she received after opening up about her experience with online harassment.The actress has appeared on shows like "This Is Us" (and stars in the new horror-comedy "Werewolves Within") but is perhaps most recognized for playing a friendly AT&amp;T employee named Lily in a series of commercials. Last year Vayntrub took to Instagram Live to <a href="https://www.insider.com/att-lily-actress-milana-vayntrub-commercial-harassment-online-comments-instagram-photos-2020">denounce the sexually explicit comments</a> and online harassment she'd received as a result of appearing in the ads - and told Insider in a recent interview that the whole controversy was unexpected. "I wasn't upset because people shared their opinions on my appearance, but I said something because just by showing up to do my job, I received unwanted sexual and violent comments about my body and what people want to do to it," the actress said. She slammed "the idea that it is my job to avoid being harassed," and said the entire experience "was surprising in every way, in the support and in the controversy." "Like so many women and so many nonbinary people, I'm expected to go to unreasonable lengths to avoid harassment," Vayntrub continued. "That can be even worse for people of color online because it's often coupled with racial slurs."After Vayntrub's Instagram Live, numerous fans online offered messages of support and condemned her harassers. AT&amp;T also spoke out in support of Vayntrub, eventually disabling the comments section of an Instagram post featuring her Lily character. But Vayntrub told Insider she still carefully considers each scene she partakes in. "Of course I take into account how much skin I'm showing and whether I have a violent scene or a sexual scene, or honestly, whether I'm showing my feet or not, because it becomes a conversation about the way that I'm treated online," she said. "I'm unfortunately always thinking about it." "Werewolves Within," which premiered June 25, is available on demand now. You can watch Vayntrub in the trailer below.

Milana Vayntrub says she still second-guesses every scene she's in after facing 'unwanted sexual and violent comments' over her AT&T commercials

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="4750764" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="milana-vayntrub">Milana Vayntrub</keyword>, an actress who is best known as Lily from <keyword id="28808" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="ATT">AT&amp;T</keyword> commercials, is facing a wave of sexual <keyword id="6367610" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="harassment">harassment</keyword> online after social media users rediscovered her videos for the company. </li><li>Over the last week, Twitter users have posted objectifying memes of the actress, many of which have distorted her personal photos. </li><li>AT&amp;T eventually turned off the comments on an Instagram post featuring Vayntrub, as commenters flooded the video with crude comments about the actress's appearance. </li><li>In an Instagram live, a visibly upset Vayntrub said that the harassment brought up "feelings of sexual assault."</li></ul>Actress Milana Vayntrub has appeared on hit shows like "This is Us," but many know her as Lily — the friendly employee from AT&amp;T commercials (she played Lily from 2013 to 2016 before taking a hiatus and returning to the role earlier this year). As a public face of the company, Vayntrub has also cultivated a large social media following, boasting nearly 740,000 followers on Instagram. But the actress' recent experience on social media, she revealed in an Instagram live, had been upsetting and violating. Last week, social media users rediscovering Vayntrub's AT&amp;T videos began <a href="https://twitter.com/weluvbk/status/1297038356669296642">posting</a> a slew of objectifying memes of the actress online, using and distorting many of her <a href="https://twitter.com/InYamate/status/1298280578668736521">old photos</a>. Some posts received hundreds of thousands of likes, spurring thousands of comments about Vayntrub's appearance.Instagram users flooded the comments section of an August 17 Instagram post from AT&amp;T featuring Vayntrub – sending the video's view count to over 1 million. As commenters made objectifying comments and posted "milk" emojis, the AT&amp;T account attempted to shut down the harassment, replying that the company does not condone "sexual harassment of employees in the workplace or [their] social channels" and that users' "overshares aren't welcome."Eventually, the account turned off comments on the post. Twitter user @megatronraid, who goes by Lu, screenshotted some of the comments and <a href="https://twitter.com/megatronraid/status/1297115361901457408">shared them</a> on Twitter. Lu told Insider that she believed the comments were "invasive and uncalled for," but felt that any attempts to intervene would have been "futile," as even AT&amp;T was unsuccessful in dissuading the trolls. Ultimately, Lu decided to post the comments to show how people behave with impunity online. "The kind of things you'd see on AT&amp;T's post is at such a direct contrast with the behaviors of people you'd talk to on a daily basis," she said. <h2>Vayntrub took to Instagram to speak out against the rampant sexual harassment</h2>In an Instagram Live, the actress addressed how the sudden onslaught of social media harassment had affected her emotional wellbeing. "Maybe it just has to do with being a person on the internet, or maybe it's specific to being a woman on the internet. But all of these comments —" she said before pausing to read several explicit comments as they appeared on the screen, "it hurts my feelings."In another segment from her live stream, which has since been <a href="https://twitter.com/justbmal/status/1297750820436545536">reposted to Twitter</a>, Vayntrub stressed how violating the messages were. "Let me tell you, I am not consenting to any of this. I do not want any of this," she said in the clip, adding that her tormentors were using her personal, decade-old photos from a pool party. As she spoke, some viewers continued to make objectifying comments, while others instructed her to develop a "thicker skin" or simply report her trolls. Reporting every harasser, Vayntrub noted grimly, would be virtually impossible."I'm hurting and it's bringing up, like, a lot of feelings of sexual assault," she said. "I am just like, you know, walking my dog and getting messages from people who have distorted my pictures to get likes on their accounts."As comments continued to pour in, a visibly emotional Vayntrub elected to end the live stream. Some Twitter users immediately came to Vayntrub's defense, calling the situation "tragic" and "utterly unacceptable.""I feel so bad for her. At one point in the stream, she sounds like she's about to cry and dumba---- in the comments keep going with the thing she just said makes her uncomfortable," one commenter <a href="https://twitter.com/On_the_Marx/status/1298081216273375232">wrote</a>.Vayntrub's long-time employer is also speaking out against the harassment. "We will not tolerate the inappropriate comments and harassment of Milana Vayntrub, the talented actor that portrays Lily in our ads," AT&amp;T said in a statement to Insider. "We have disabled or deleted these comments on our social content that includes Lily and we will continue to fight to support her and our values, which appreciate and respect all women."Since addressing the situation, Vayntrub has been <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CEQxbWypT7k/">promoting</a> her newest project: a conversation with Ted Bunch, the co-founder of A Call To Men, an organization that describes its objective as "creating a world where all men are loving &amp; respectful and all women and girls are valued and safe."The conversation, which is scheduled to take place on the evening of August 26, will address healthy masculinity, gender equity, and racial justice.Representatives for Vayntrub did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. Read more:<a href="https://www.insider.com/bliss-spa-cutting-ties-tiktok-star-tony-lopez-2020-8">A skincare brand said it will stop working with TikTok star Tony Lopez due to allegations of sexual harassment</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/reddit-content-policy-changes-new-black-moderators-racism-2020-7">Black Reddit moderators say onslaughts of racism and abuse have become the norm. Now, they're hoping new, stricter policies can make their spaces safe.</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/washington-redskins-sexual-harassment-washington-post-report-2020-7">15 women accuse top Washington Redskins executives of sexual harassment in bombshell report</a>

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