Editor’s note: This story contains quotes of abusive language toward Katherine Legge that were released to CNN by her team.
CNN
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British racing driver Katherine Legge told CNN Sports that she has been inundated with thousands of hateful messages, death threats, vulgar and inappropriate comments across multiple social media platforms since she entered NASCAR in March.
One direct message on X said that she should hang herself, the same account adding in a separate, public, post, “You need to be assassinated.” Another advised her to “swallow a shotgun.”
Initially, she wanted to ignore her trolls and deny them the oxygen of publicity, but…
