Bella Thorne Has Been Slammed On Twitter Over This Insensitive "Self-Centred" Tweet

12 January 2018, 12:59

By Katie Louise Smith

She got called out by actor Rob Lowe too.

Bella Thorne is catching a liiiiiittle bit of backlash at the moment over an insensitive tweet.

Bella complained, in the now deleted tweet, about the traffic on the way to Santa Barbara where her boyfriend, Modsun, was playing the first gig of his tour. She wrote: "F*ck u 101 to santa barbra. I'm missing my boyfriends first date on his tour:(((."

Now, we all know that traffic in LA is the worst of all time so why is Bella's tweet a problem? Well, in case you haven't been keeping up with the news, there has been a huge storm and a deadly mudslide in Santa Barbara, where Bella was heading. As of Thursday (Jan 11), reports say that 17 people have been confirmed dead with another 17 people still missing. Children are among the victims and people literally had to be pulled out of thick mud by emergency services.

People on Twitter weren't particularly thrilled with her comments:

Actor Rob Lowe then saw the tweet and called her out on her self-centred comment saying: "This attitude is why people hate celebrities/Hollywood. Bella, I’m sorry you were inconvenienced. We will try to move out our dead quicker."

This attitude is why people hate celebrities/Hollywood. Bella, I’m sorry you were inconvenienced. We will try to move out our dead quicker.

A post shared by Rob Lowe (@robloweofficial) on Jan 11, 2018 at 2:23pm PST

Bella, quickly realising what had happened after reading up on the situation, then deleted the tweet. She didn't respond to Lowe's Instagram post but she did tweet again, hoping everyone gets home to their families safely. Bella clearly didn't mean anything malicious by her initial tweet. We all f*ck up sometimes, but a little more awareness wouldn't have gone a miss.