The Bachelor's Daisy Kent has fired back at haters claiming she has "vocal fry" that's hard to listen to when she talks to Joey Graziadei on the show.
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Daisy took to Instagram on Tuesday, February 20 and shared one of the comments she recently received from a troll.
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"How can yall listen to that vocal fry," the person wrote along with three crying-laughing emojis.
Daisy posted a video explaining how this criticism makes her feel, and she captioned her post, "Going on #thebachelor was hard for me bc I knew not everyone would react to me with kindness & understanding."
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But Daisy said she's "very thankful for the large amount of people who have uplifted" her.
"My voice is not something I can always tell & these comments do hurt because I am human. Overall, they remind me how proud I should be for doing something & sharing a vulnerable part of me," continued the 25-year-old account executive from Becker, MN.
"They remind me that the DM I get from a 15 year old girl telling me that me being on #thebachelor gave her more confidence, inspired her, and made her feel less alone matters more than the people like this who try to bring down something I have worked so hard to build up within myself."
Daisy concluded her message with a reminder to "be kind," and she added the following hashtags: #socialmedia #realitytv #hearingloss #cochlearimplant.
In the video, Daisy tells her followers, "I usually don't respond to negative or mean comments, but I've been getting a lot of comments like these ones. It's interesting because most of the people who post them are people who have fake user names and fake pictures as their profile pictures.
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"I know I don't have to explain myself," Daisy goes to on to say, "but I do have a cochlear implant, which is how I hear. And I can't always hear exactly what my voice is sounding like. I can't always tell if I'm being loud or if I'm being quiet, or if I have a vocal fry or if I don't."
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Daisy said it's "sad" because when people make fun of the way she sounds, it does make her think about the way she's talking, especially when she's making social media videos such as these.
"It is sad because losing my hearing and getting a cochlear implant is something that really affected my confidence, and the show, all of the producers and all of the cast were such a confidence builder for me," Daisy shared.
"Everyone was so supportive of me, and it's just unfortunate that people online have to comment stuff like this that make me [get] in my head about the way that I talk and speak."
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Daisy opened up to Joey on The Bachelor's 28th season about a health crisis she had endured for years, which included gradual hearing loss and how a cochlear implant -- which Daisy got in March 2023 and activated the following month -- changed her life for the better.
Daisy began having stroke-like seizures when she was 11-years-old, but doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with her for years.
Her health worsened to the point where she had to move in with her parents.
"I physically just laid in bed all day. I couldn't get up. My head always hurt. My ears would ring so loud and I had vertigo all the time," she recalled in a TikTok video she posted earlier this month, adding, "It got really bad, to the point where I wasn't even functioning. "
She was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease at age 21, and she eventually went to an inpatient treatment center in Germany to treat her symptoms.
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After more than a month of injections, infusions, whole-body hypothermia, plasmapheresis, an endoscopy, a colonoscopy, and more, Daisy finally felt better and was able to begin living a normal pain-free life.
Daisy, however, didn't regain her hearing, and so she received the cochlear implant and now rocks it as a fashion statement.
Joey told The Bachelor cameras how he was so impressed by Daisy and her ability to overcome such adversity, while also turning challenges into positives.
"I am blown away, honestly," Joey revealed.
When Daisy showed Joey her cochlear implant, he called it "beautiful," and The Bachelor star told the bachelorette that he found her inspiring.
"Daisy is resilient... and to have that be the person that you're with, it's a huge trait that you can look to," Joey said in a confessional, adding, "I can see Daisy being someone I end up with at the end of all this, and it's exciting!"
Daisy founded a nonprofit organization called Hear Your Heart in April 2021 to support children with autoimmune disorders or hearing loss, and she also wrote the book Daisy Doo: All the Sounds She Knew to help kids discover "the beauty of" her "favorite sounds" thanks to a cochlear implant.
Daisy was just shown traveling to Montreal, Canada with Joey and his remaining bachelorettes on The Bachelor's latest episode. She appears to be a frontrunner to win Joey's heart on Season 28, and she recently thanked Bachelor Nation for everyone's support.
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