People who would call me the Barney girl.' 'There were always those people that were the Barney haters. I just wanted to be a normal kid,' recalled Pia Hamilton. 'I think I was 13 by the time I finished with the show. The actors who appeared on the show as kids also felt the backlash when they attempted to return to the 'real world' and re-enroll in school with their peers. 'There was one email that asked, 'Are you the Barney that I stabbed and shot outside of New Orleans?' They went on to say they were going to come and find me and they were going to kill me.'Įdward Furlong Reveals He's Four Years Sober, Has New Teeth After Meth & Heroin Addiction They were very explicit and very violent,' he explained. 'Some of them were very nice and some of them were absolutely hateful. It hurt so bad.'īob West, who was the voice of Barney from 1988-2000, said his email address got leaked online and he was inundated with hateful messages from people he believed were all middle school aged. I really don't want to revisit it, that was a terrible time. I got actual death and dismemberment of my family emails. 'I got to the point where I, back in the good old days, I unlisted my phone number. And it wasn't just one or two phone calls. 'I was surprised that they felt like they wanted to do me physical harm. I'd just love to get my fingers around that guy's neck,'' said the show's former music director Bob Singleton. The phone calls came in and there were people saying, 'His music drives me crazy.

'The first time I really heard about Barney bashing was when I was nominated for a Grammy and I was interviewed by a local radio station.

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