Essex influencer Sophie-May Dickson has been forced to respond after the mourning mother came under fire for posting photos from her daughter’s funeral last week
Her glammed-up coffin photos with her other daughter provoked an angry response
A British influencer grieving the death of her bullied daughter has defended herself after being slammed for uploading photos of her funeral online.
Princess Dickson took her own life at the beginning of February following years of abuse on Tattle Life, a toxic web forum dubbed a “troll’s paradise”. Her mum Sophie-May Dickson has been forced to respond after sharing images from the day the teen was laid to rest, including her smiling with her other daughter next to the casket, and another with her head pressed against her coffin.
Heartbroken Sophie-May, 32, captioned the snaps: “26.3.26. The day I tucked my baby to sleep for the very last time. The hardest goodbye. How do you ever accept kissing your baby for the very last time ? I love you princess. You are loved beyond belief. I’ll see you next in heaven girl.
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“Please be at the gates to greet me when it’s my time and show me all around. Miss you so much – this missing piece will never ever be filled. You took a piece of me when you left.”
But despite her agony, that didn’t stop some cruel comments. One told the mourning mother: “I know we all grieve different but wow social media and vanity has really got a hold of you”. The mean remarks didn’t stop there, and the user went on to call the situation “truly just weird“.
Sophie-May launched a lengthy defence of her posts and took aim at those who criticised her. “I’m quite shocked that this has come from a photographer,” she responded on her Story. “Maybe you’re a begnner or maybe you have never been hired for this type of day.
“But let me tell you something all what you have just said about you have got wrong – over and over you are incorrect. This was the last moment of me with my daughter. I had walked away from casket many times but it just didn’t feel right to me. Once I collected my belongings from where I sat. My bag and my phone and my order of service booklet I just had to go back. I was ONLY IN THE MOMENT!
“It was just myself and staff in the room but to me it felt like just myself and my daughter. My phone in my hand because like I say just collected my belongings from were I as seated but couldn’t walk away without one last personal moment with my first born baby!!
“I can tell you have never experienced anything that I just have nor worked as a photographer for a day like that because of how wrong you have got it all. As I say I am split between anything I am solely with my daughter here and didn’t know this footage exists. But I THANK GOD that it does.
“Because I would not of remembered every part of this day if I didn’t hire photographers who were just there silently in the background capturing out beautiful last moments. I would highly suggest to anyone to hire people to watch back this day because your emotions and adrenaline are so high you don’t remember it all.”
She went on: “So when I saw this piece of footage along with 100s of other beautiful pieces of footage I absolutely adored that those moments were captured and I can always go back to these last moments. And yes I chose to share. So no. In that moment wasn’t about future audience. I am just about to walk away from my baby for the very last time for the rest of my life.
“I could hardly breathe. My legs were shaking. My body was so tight I felt like my ribs were going to crush my own organs!!!!! Your mindset in all of this is what is the sad part. But you wasn’t [sic] to know. But now you do know.
“I did not broadcast this for views. I saw the person who captured this beautiful moment share it and decided to share it myself. This is a very special moment of mine and I am not wrong for sharing it xx you don’t have to agree with me that’s fine but that doesn’t make you right or wrong. Or me wrong. We’re two humans with different opinions and THAT SOK!!!!”
Gossip side Tattle Life was launched eight years ago and attracts millions of visitors every week. It is known as a ‘forum of hate’ and has withstood numerous attempts to get it closed down.
The site describes itself as a platform for “commentary and critiques of people that choose to monetise their personal life as a business and release it into the public domain”. The family reported the abuse to Essex Police.
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