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Daniel Radcliffe became world famous as Harry Potter
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No Twitter, no Instagram: Unlike many celebrities, actor Daniel Radcliffe has no accounts on social media.
Now he has declared on the YouTube show "First We Feast" that he wants to protect himself in this way.
Radcliffe says he has learned from his past.
When he was younger, he read comments about himself on the internet and read a lot of crap.
Doing that is a "crazy and bad thing," said the 31-year-old.
Twitter and other social networks felt like an extension of that to him.
The other way on social media is, "I just read all the nice things about myself, which also feels like another type of unhealthy behavior," said Radcliffe.
But to compensate for reading the bad things about himself, he apparently fails.
He thinks he is "not mentally strong enough" for that, Radcliffe said.
Therefore it is obviously the best option for him to completely boycott Twitter and Co.
For his impersonation of Harry Potter, the Briton became world famous in 2001 at the age of twelve.
In the summer, Radcliffe publicly distanced herself from Harry Potter inventor Joanne K. Rowling after she had repeatedly spoken out about trans women in a way that many consider discriminatory.
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