Jenna Ortega reveals ‘terrifying’ reason for deleting her Twitter account

Jenna Ortega opened up about the horrendous experience that led the young actress to delete her X, formerly Twitter, account.

In a conversation with the New York Times prior to the premiere of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and the second season of Netflix's Wednesday, Ortega, 21, revealed that after receiving AI-generated pornographic DMs of herself as a child, she removed the social media handle from her life.

While speaking about her forthcoming project, an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro‘s novel Klara and the Sun helmed by Taika Waititi, in which she plays the eponymous robot, the Disney star described her experience with artificial intelligence as "terrifying."

"I hate AI," the Scream actress asserted. "I mean, here’s the thing: AI could be used for incredible things…Let’s keep it to that."

"Did I like being 14 and making a Twitter account because I was supposed to and seeing dirty edited content of me as a child? No," she described."It’s terrifying. It’s corrupt. It’s wrong."

"It was disgusting, and it made me feel bad. It made me feel uncomfortable," Ortega added, recalling the first explicit DM she encountered at age 12. "Anyway, that’s why I deleted it, because I couldn’t say anything without seeing something like that."

"So, one day, I just woke up, and I thought, ‘Oh, I don’t need this anymore.’ So, I dropped it," said the actress, who recently was featured in Sabrina Carpenter's new song Taste from her sixth studio album Short n' Sweet. 

Ortega shared she had deleted the X, formerly a Twitter account, two or three years ago.