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Chicago Med star Torey DeVitto isn’t backing down from her beliefs, even though sometimes the online hate gets to be a lot. DeVitto, who is currently pregnant with her first baby with fiancé Jared LaPine has spoken up about the online hate she continuously receives ever since she first revealed to People that she’d had an abortion at age 21.
“People are psycho,” DeVitto told podcast co-hosts and fellow actresses Rachel Bilson and Olivia Allen on the Broad Ideas podcast, after sharing that she’s been the target of intense online hate since she first revealed her abortion.
“I get messages all time,” she explained. “You know, ‘baby killer,’ ‘murderer.’ Like, videos of me and it’s like, ‘Watch out for her’ and, like, relating me to Nazis and playing crazy, like, Antichrist music. And I was like, ‘This is insane.’ It is wild.”
For DeVitto, the only solution has been to ignore it. “I don’t look at that stuff anymore,” she confirmed. “I can’t internalize it.”
But, as she went on to say in the latest episode of the All About Change podcast, DeVitto refuses to be bullied into silence. And, almost as importantly, she wants to make sure she speaks out on an issue she feels is important, at a time when she can make a difference.
“When all this stuff was happening with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, I just felt like I wanted to share my story because I wanted people to know, ‘I’m not just standing there with you, I am you. I have gone through this. I know what you feel. I know the emotions. I know how complex it is. I’m not just talking out of my ass. This is very real to me.’”
In 2023 DeVitto expanded on her experiences with abortion in an essay for USA Today where she described the experience of having “two very different abortions” — the one she elected to have at 21, and another one she medically needed because of a miscarriage years later.
But DeVitto admitted in the All About Change Podcast, hosted by Jay Ruderman, that sometimes the hate does affect her. She is only human, after all.
“I have to put myself first in that way, where I can’t read everything,” she explained. “I just can’t. It really does take a toll on you, no matter how much you say you don’t care, when you read people saying the nastiest things about you because of an opinion you have on something.”
“And especially for me,” DeVitto added. “There’s not a single opinion that I have put out there that is not completely grounded and rooted in love, and love for people and wanting unity.”
Torrey DeVitto starred in the first six seasons of Chicago Med as the beloved Dr. Natalie Manning. When viewers first met Natalie, she was a pregnant and single mother-to-be. Prior to the events of the pilot, her husband was killed in action during his deployment overseas. Natalie went on to welcome their son, Owen, and date Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss). She was written off the show in the Season 7 premiere, though she returned for a guest appearance in the Season 8 finale, where she was reunited with Will Halstead.
