I wear headphones to drown out abuse

Comic Rosie Jones on cerebral palsy slurs

- RACHAEL DAVIS

WHETHER it is being shouted at in the street or laughed at in the pub, abuse has become part of comedian Rosie Jones's daily life.

While the cruel trolling of her cerebral palsy predates her fame, her appearances on the likes of 8 Out of 10 Cats, The Last Leg and Question Time have brought her into people's homes. And that has made the insults, taunts and slurs much worse, both in real life and on social media.

The 33-year-old says: "I always use headphones when I'm out and about on my own because every single day of my life I will get people laughing at me and shouting abuse.

"I choose to drown it out. I read people saying that I deserve to be in a cage, I deserve to die.