Ruby Rose Quit Twitter Following Her ‘Batwoman’ Casting Backlash

People weren’t happy when it was announced that Ruby Rose will be playing the first lesbian superhero in The CW’s Batwoman. Recently, she opened up to Jimmy Fallon about how important it is:

“I feel like the reason I get so emotional, growing up watching TV, I never saw somebody on TV that I could identify with, let alone a superhero,” she said to Jimmy. “I have always had this saying — I mean, not me, Oscar Wilde — which is ‘Be yourself because everyone else is taken.’ So I always live by that motto, and the second motto when I came into the industry was ‘Be the person that you needed when you were younger.’ I feel like one motto led to another.”

Following trolls and backlash, Ruby opted to quit social media altogether.

“Where on earth did ‘Ruby is not a lesbian therefore she can’t be batwoman’ come from – has to be the funniest most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read. I came out at 12?” her last tweet said. “And have for the past 5 years had to deal with ‘she’s too gay’ how do y’all flip it like that? I didn’t change.”

Batwoman will debut in December as a character during The CW’s annual crossover event.

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