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'They're demons in basements': Robert Pattinson hits back at racist haters as he lavishes praise on 'amazing' rumoured fiancée FKA twigs

Published: 19:05 EST, 25 September 2015 | Updated: 20:12 EST, 25 September 2015

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FKA twigs recently revealed that racist online trolls have, at times, reduced her to tears.

And Robert Pattinson jumped at the opportunity to hit back at the haters as he heaped praise on his 'amazing' rumoured fiancée in an interview with NME magazine.

While the 29-year-old actor didn't directly address twigs' personal encounters with online trolls, he did say she was 'just an amazing, amazing artist.'

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Putting on a united front: Robert Pattinson, 29, has hit back at FKA twigs' haters as he heaped praise on his 'amazing' rumoured fiancée in an interview with NME magazine

Discussing his feelings on the racist messages 27-year-old twigs has to put up with, the dishy actor likened the people leaving nasty comments to 'demons in basements'.

He explained: 'I was talking to my dad about this and I bet him that if he looked up Nelson Mandela's funeral on YouTube, the first comment would be a racist one.

'And it was, with like a million upvotes. What I don't get is why. I think it's because most normal people are not commenters – I've never met anyone who's left a comment on anything. It's just demons who live in basements,' he continued.

'You have this weird thing where you end up trying to fight against this faceless blob, where the more you hate it, the bigger it gets, because it's all in your head,' he added.

Loved up: Discussing his feelings on the racist messages 27-year-old twigs has to put up with, the dishy actor likened the people leaving nasty comments to 'demons in basements'

twigs has been abused online since her relationship with Robert came to light in July, 2014.

The singer, who was born Tahliah Debrett Barnett, told Sunday Times Magazine in August that she really started to struggle with the nastiness when the trolls started to make racist comments to one of her fans.

Twigs was replying to a fan who had tweeted a picture of himself with a friend who was dying of cancer and revealed the young woman listened to her music to cheer herself up.

But soon afterwards, the trolls turned on the man and started to send a barrage of negative comments about the woman in the picture.

Intense: twigs has been abused online since her relationship with Robert came to light in July 2014

She said: 'They all started attacking her. Within 20 seconds it was just like n*****, monkey, ugly, die b****, all this stuff on his feed. It broke my heart… this lady who is really sick and is probably going to die.'

While she was hurt by the comments she and others have received, it is something her parents have always prepared her for.

She was just 10 years old when her stepfather explained that she might be treated differently as a result of the colour of her skin.

She told the magazine that he said: 'Sometimes you're going to have to work 10 times harder than somebody else to get the same appreciation, but never use it as an excuse. I agree with that.'

Worth it: twigs said last year that her relationship with Robert was '100 percent worth it' despite the negative side to fame

At school in Gloucestershire, she was aware from a young age that she was the only mixed race girl in her class.

She told the magazine: 'I was very conscious of it. I was half-Jamaican, but I didn't understand that side of myself. Western society tells you if you're blonde, you're beautiful; if you have green eyes, you're beautiful; if you have fair skin, you're beautiful.'

But while Twigs has is uncomfortable under the extreme scrutiny, both negative and positive, she is adamant that it is worth it for the man that she loves.

She told the Observer in November: 'It's like, is this person in my life worth that? And he is, without question... In comparison to how happy I am. And how I feel with him. It's 100 percent worth it.'