Robert Pattinson and FKA Twigs have been together for a little over a year, and while the couple has mostly kept mum about their relationship, it appears that their relationship is still going strong. It has been reported that they got engaged earlier this year. But some "Twilight" fans cannot seem to let go of Pattinson's relationship with Kristen Stewart, and some have even taken to posting rude comments about the "Two Weeks" singer on social media.
While Twigs has previously said that she was "shocked and disgusted" by the comments, Pattinson has now spoken about his fiancee's online haters, saying that he doesn't get why people would bother posting anything so hateful.
In an interview with NME Magazine, the "Cosmopolis" actor said, "I was talking to my dad about this and I bet him that if he looked up Nelson Mandela's funeral on YouTube, the first comment would be a racist one," he said.
He added that he doesn't understand why people would say such rude things about another person online.
"What I don't get is why. I think it's because most normal people are not commenters—I've never met anyone who's left a comment on anything," he said.
Pattinson also talked about how one negative comment can really affect a person, and that he has tried to stop reading comments about him on the Internet.
"I go through periods where I don't do it at all and feel glorious," he said about going online to read articles or posts about himself. He added that negative comments can really affect a person, though he said that he reads them occasionally out of a "weird compulsion" to "reinforce my negative opinion of myself."
And while he is still under constant scrutiny, he admits that it has gotten better after he finished working on the "Twilight" films. Pattinson said that at that time, he had to deal with paparazzi stalking him outside his house and that he wasn't able to go to the supermarket for six years.
"But now I can go in and chat to the guy who's working there about his kids," he said. "I just don't have to think about that stuff anymore."
