During a recent conversation on The Interview podcast for The New York Times, Jenna Ortega shared that receiving sexually explicit deepfakes of herself led her to shut down her Twitter account, now known as X.
“I hate AI,” she said. “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. It’s terrifying. It’s corrupt. It’s wrong.”
In addition to receiving AI-generated pornographic images, the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star said her first DM “that I ever opened myself when I was 12 was an unsolicited photo of a man’s genitals, and that was just the beginning of what was to come.”
“I used to have that Twitter account and I was told that, ‘Oh, you got to do it, you got to build your image,’” Jenna Ortega said. “I ended up deleting it about two, three years ago because the influx after the show [Wednesday] had come out — these absurd images and photos, and I already was in a confused state that I just deleted it.”
Ortega further continued that the photos that made her feel uncomfortable, were often inescapable on the platform. “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.”
Now 21, Ortega also shared that one of the ways she navigates life in the spotlight, and inevitably being an online presence, is by spending time offline and outdoors, and by being less judgmental of herself.
“I’m always walking,” she said. “If you’re ever wondering what I’m doing, if my parents are ever wondering, if I’m not at work, or in some sort of meeting, I am outside doing laps. I am in a random garden, I am laying, taking a nap in a field.”
“I’m really working on not being so self-critical or just killing myself over things that in the grand scheme of the world with the news and things you see, it’s really just not important at all.”
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