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" Katie Waissel has admitted that she ignored advice not to read what is being said about her online. Speaking to The Mirror, the X Factor star - who received death threats during her time on the programme - said that she wanted to know what people really thought of her so that she could &amp;quot;protect&amp;quot; herself from it. &amp;quot;I just couldn&amp;#039;t understand why so many people seemed to hate me that much,&amp;quot; Waissel told the paper of her time on the ITV1 show. &amp;quot;I know you can&amp;#039;t please everyone, but what went on, with proper hatred and death threats, that was weird.&amp;quot; She continued: &amp;quot;It was scary. But I just couldn&amp;#039;t understand why. Usually to get that reaction someone needs to commit a really awful crime or say something totally outrageous. &amp;quot;I still don&amp;#039;t know what people thought I was like - clearly something not me to get that reaction! I just think, &amp;#039;Wow, what the hell do you all think?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Recalling one incident in London, the 24-year-old revealed: &amp;quot;Someone even threw a banana skin at me in Covent Garden one day. Why would you do that, to a total stranger? What if they&amp;#039;d decided to throw a rock and it had hit someone else instead of me? Oh my God, it&amp;#039;s horrible.&amp;quot; On her decision to read online material, she explained: &amp;quot;I read every single thing. Everyone kept saying, &amp;#039;Don&amp;#039;t read it!&amp;#039;, but I had to. I wanted to know what was going on so I could protect myself. &amp;quot;There was a message on some forum that said, &amp;#039;I saw Katie Waissel today. Wish I&amp;#039;d smacked her around the face with an umbrella&amp;#039;. Really? Thanks. But what if this person had actually done that? Actually smacked me around the face? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s so weird and horrible coming from these anonymous people I&amp;#039;ve never even met.&amp;quot; Waissel added: &amp;quot;I was like public enemy Number One for a big chunk of last year. There&amp;#039;s a lot worse bloody people out there than me, some TV contestant! Get things in perspective, people!&amp;quot; &amp;amp;gt; Katie Waissel &amp;#039;learnt from X Factor hate&amp;#039; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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