Lewis Capaldi's older sister has hit back at the trolls who called their parents 'cruel' after they featured in the singer's new Netflix doc, How I'm Feeling Now.
Following the release of the new film - which gives an insight into the 26-year-old's personal life - some have accused the mother and father of being 'too harsh' to their talented son over his mental health issues and struggles with Tourette's syndrome.
And now, Danielle, 30 - his big sis - wants people to know that mum Carol and dad Mark are 'ordinary' parents from Scotland.
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Taking to social media, she shared a snap alongside her baby bro as the pair pull up the middle finger to the haters.
Her caption read: “When reading negative comments on parents.
“Lewis’s documentary has had a lot of positive responses. But unfortunately there will always be people who have to look for problems where there aren’t any.
“If you don’t get Scottish patter or parents who are worried about their son, don’t comment.”
In the doc, concerned parents Mark and Carol revealed their superstar son isn’t the ‘happy chappy guy’ many of us see on stage, in interviews or on social media.
Carol said: “You think, ‘Where is all this coming from? All these deep, meaningful words that he manages to get into a song?’
“I mean, I think everybody’s complicated, they’ve got things that they keep to themselves, and that’s just Lewis. He’s not just the comedian we all think he is.”
Mark added: “He sees humanity, that darkness, and he understands it, and he can vocalise it.
“And that’s where the conflict possibly is as well, because the darkness comes over the happy chappy guy and manifests itself in all the tics, the anxiety and all the other things that he’s kind of surrounded in.”
In the doc, the superstar also opened up on his nervous tics in his shoulder, which he later discovered is due to Tourette’s syndrome.
“This twitch became out of control and it was awful, it was absolutely horrific,” Capaldi explained.
“It started to get in my head about these pressures about being like, 'Oh f**k, there's like skin in the game now, rather than just me singing my silly little songs. Other people are depending on me'.”
Capaldi also said he suffers panic attacks, which leave him feeling ‘disconnected from reality’ and as if he’s ‘going insane’.
“I can’t breathe, like I can’t feel my breath going in,” Capaldi continued.
“It's f**king wild. And I get dizzy and... I'm sweating, my whole body starts to do what my shoulder does.”
Topics: Lewis Capaldi, Celebrity, Netflix, UK News
Anish Vij