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But the company also gets “hate mail,” he conceded.

She was met with a wave of backlash when she went public in 2017, receiving hate mail and online abuse.

"My family wouldn't talk to me for a year, such was my 'treason'. And even today I get hate mail from wine-growers saying I am ruining the market," she says.

During Smollett's trial, prosecutors alleged he staged the attack because he was unhappy with a television studio's response to hate mail he received.

That’s actually the concept of the cover of the book — I’m naked and I’m covered in hate mail.