Tiffany Haddish Reveals She Uses a Fake X Account to Respond to Strangers 'Talking About Me So Damn Much'

"I don't know why y'all talking about me so damn much, but that's okay. I like to talk about you too," she joked

Tiffany Haddish found a sly way to address her naysayers on social media.

The comedian, 44, revealed during her appearance at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California on April 21, that she uses a fake account on X (formerly known as Twitter) to interact with strangers who post about her.

"And then the internet came out and people got the freedom to talk about whatever they want to talk about. And now I wish I was back to illiterate again," Haddish joked during a panel conversation about her upcoming book I Curse You with Joy.

"So people show me to talk about me. I don't know why y'all talking about me so damn much, but that's okay. I like to talk about you too."

During the panel, the Girls Trip star said she "made me a fake page and now I'm talking about s---. How about that? 'Why is this lady attacking me?' You talk about what goes around comes around, don't worry."

"I don't know about fake Instagram, but I definitely got fake Twitter," she added, after she was asked whether she uses a "Finsta," meaning a Fake Instagram account. "I mean a fake X, a fake X." 

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Her new book marks her second as an author following her 2017 debut The Last Black Unicorn, where Haddish first noted she struggled with literacy until she was in high school.

At Sunday's event, the actress credited her high school drama teacher with realizing she struggled at reading and took extra time to help catch up.

"I would come to her class and I would bring my food with me and I would read to her and it would be newspaper articles, books, different things she would get me to read. And I had to read it out loud to her and she would help me," Haddish recalled.

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"My brain is different. The way my brain works is a little different. So I needed somebody to be sitting there for me and guiding me. I needed guidance," she added, noting that the teacher "changed my life" by helping her.

"She gave me the fundamentals that I needed and they were always there but I didn't know how to use them," Haddish said. "So then she helped me learn how to use them."

Haddish's book I Curse You with Joy releases May 7.

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