Clementine Ford DEFENDS Abbie Chatfield in extraordinary spray after massive falling out
The pair have been exchanging barbs for weeks after Clementine accused Abbie of profiting from the 'performance of being politically engaged'.
However, the pair have appeared to have found some common ground, with Clementine defending Abbie in an explosive response to an online troll.
She shared an image to her Instagram story on Thursday that showed a very off-colour remark by a troll account called 'Right Of Centre'.
The comment read: 'Two ugly xx trolls. Men should not help them at all.
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'If they're being mugged they're not worth it - too ugly - only good looking nice women deserve chivalry on any level.'
Clementine responded swiftly, slamming the commenter as an 'incel creep'.
'Regardless of my views on AC [Abbie Chatfield], I'm pretty sure neither of us need or have ever needed nor have ever asked for men to help us - especially not weird little incel creeps who blame women for their basement position on the male hierarchy,' she said.
'F*** off, loser. We both know you would p*** your pants in fear if one of us even looked in your direction.'
Abbie and Clementine's feud began when the latter wrote on her 'Dear Clementine' blog on Substack that some influencers, like Abbie, profit from the 'performance of being politically engaged' while criticising anyone who disagrees with them.
Abbie responded with a video post on Instagram in which she called out her online rival.
'She's literally writing a burn book about me and doing insults like "She thinks she's so hot",' Chatfield said.
'What a weirdo - oh my God.'
She added: 'Clementine, take a step back from the internet. Take a step back from Reddit please.'
Abbie later returned to the platform in tears as the social media feud took a dark turn.
She accused Clementine of 'trolling' her, and said it was affecting her mental health and made her feel unsafe.
'Stop saying that I have a personality disorder,' she said. 'You don't know me. This is so f****ing triggering I just want her to stop,' she said.
'It isn't working, you're discouraging others... Please, I'm just trying to do what I can to help.
'I just don't understand why she's so adamant on proving that I'm awful. I don't get it. This is so incredibly stressful and awful what she is doing.'
She added she was now aware of 'someone spreading malicious lies about me again and again … because she claims to know my intentions on f***ing everything'.
'I'm scared of her. Please stop, Clementine. I am begging you to stop,' she sobbed.
'F*** off, loser. We both know you would p*** your pants in fear if one of us even looked in your direction.'
'You don't know me at all, you're a stranger. I deal with so much, every single day. I deal with insults every single day. I do not need it from you because you know that when you say it you validate it for people on the left.
'You are f**ing my mental health. Please f***ing stop.'
She then posted screenshots of comments made by the writer, calling Abbie an 'idiotic narcissist', 'completely shallow' and a 'deeply basic thinker'.
Not yielding to Abbie's pleas, Clementine was quick to fire off another salvo at the FBoy Island host.
She shared a screenshot to Instagram of a text conversation between two unnamed people.
The first writes: 'I heard you were taking s*** about me.'
The second replies with a defiant: 'Do you wanna hear it again or did you get everything?'
Above the exchange, Clementine wrote: 'This is the energy I want to be coming into next year with'.
It came after Abbie had made another tearful appeal to Clementine to rein back her criticism, saying it was unfair and was a painful addition to the abuse she receives from those who criticise her left-wing politics.
'Been a bit of a rough weekend. Go to my TikTok if you want to know what's going on. I don't want to rehash it, but all I want to say is it's incredibly counterproductive to criticise someone for doing the thing you want them to do,' Abbie said on her It's A Lot podcast.
'It makes no sense and it gives a certain energy that I think we all know.'
She then invited questions from her followers and used that for another shot at Clementine.
'We are doing an "ask me anything" as I didn't prep, because contrary to what Clementine Ford says I do prep for my own podcasts but I didn't have time to do that,' Abbie said.
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