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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 4 OcTOber 2018
Chelsea Clinton fights cyberbullying by answering trolls

By BROOKE LEFFERTS when she was growing up
Associated Press in the White House ("Sat-
NEW YORK (AP) — Chelsea urday Night Live" did a skit
Clinton says she's naturally poking fun at her at the
an optimist and despite en- time). There were also those
during name-calling from who targeted her because
the time she was a child, she was the daughter of Bill
she chooses to answer in- and Hillary Clinton.
sults — even on Twitter — "So when I was confronted
with kindness and respect. directly — even as a child
"Cyberbullying is a huge — and people would say
challenge across our coun- awful things to me, I would
try. I think we need those say, 'I'm sorry you feel that
of us with platforms to not way. I don't feel that way.
ignore the trolls, not to be- I don't think I'm ugly or born
come consumed by them, in sin or the family dog or
but to shine a light and that my parents should
say here's how you can re- have aborted me or you
spond where you're calmly know that like we all should
defending yourself but be dead,'" she recalled. "I
you're also showing it's not mean these are all things
OK and you're not degrad- that people said to me
ing your own humanity in when I was a kid and they
doing that," the 38-year-old were always said by much
mother of two said in an older people."
interview Tuesday with The Decades later, the taunts
Associated Press. still come — these days via
It's one of several messages Chelsea Clinton poses for a portrait on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, in New York to promote her book, social media. At first Clinton
in her new book, "Start Now! "Start Now!: You Can Make a Difference." ignored them, but recently
You Can Make a Differ- Associated Press she started to speak up.
ence," released this week. "I started to worry that by ig-
In it, Clinton encourages fourth children's book. Her "I've always believed that healthier, more equitable, noring it, it wasn't depriving
children to make a posi- role as an author is one of you're never too young more just safer place for the trolls of oxygen, it was
tive change in the world by several that Clinton juggles, or too old to make a dif- them than previous gen- maybe taken as kind of im-
educating themselves and including motherhood, be- ference. And then when erations," she said. plicit — not endorsement
taking action. The book ing vice chairman of the I became a mom, I think I Making the world a safer — but that I was somehow
focuses on preserving the Clinton Foundation and felt that even more keenly place, in Clinton's eyes, OK with that language and
environment, helping save teaching at Columbia Uni- because all of a sudden I also means abolishing bul- that behavior," she said.
animals, staying healthy versity. Her latest book was had, you know, first Char- lying. "And I think particularly be-
and putting an end to bul- inspired by the notion that lotte and then Aidan, these It's a topic Clinton knows ing a parent now I never
lying. age doesn't matter when it little people in the world, I only too well, enduring want my kids or any kid to
"Start Now!" is Clinton's comes to activism. wanted the world to be a brutal criticism of her looks think that that's OK."q

Real Peggy Sue, of 1958 Buddy Holly song fame, dies in Texas

Associated Press niversary of the song.
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Gerron, while promoting
The Texas woman who her autobiography, said
inspired the 1958 Buddy material for the memoir
Holly song "Peggy Sue" has came from about 150 dia-
died at a Lubbock hospi- ry entries she made during
tal. the time she knew Holly.
Peggy Sue Gerron Rack- Gerron was born in Olton,
ham of Lubbock died Texas, but moved to Lub-
Monday at University bock where she attended
Medical Center, accord- high school and met Holly
ing to UMC spokesman and his friends.
Eric Finley. She was 78. The "I wanted to give him (Hol-
family gave the hospital ly) his voice. It's my book,
permission to confirm the my memoirs," she said
death, but asked that no about her book, accord-
additional information be ing to a 2008 Associated
released, Finley said Tues- Press story. "We were very,
day. very good friends. He was
Peggy Sue Gerron in 2008 probably one of the best
released her autobiogra- friends I ever had."
phy "Whatever Happened She married drummer Jerry
to Peggy Sue?: A Memoir Allison, from Holly's rock 'n'
by Buddy Holly's Peggy In this Jan. 11, 2008, file photo, Peggy Sue Gerron unveils her new book "What Ever Happened to roll band The Crickets. The
Sue" to mark the 50th an- Peggy Sue" during a press conference in Tyler, Texas. couple later divorced.q
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