Jaleesa M. Jones

USA TODAY

Getting away from trolls isn't always as easy as logging off Twitter.

One Direction bandmate Niall Horan found that out the hard way after a group of so-called fans got ahold of his phone number. "For the last two weeks I've been receiving messages (from) a group of fans, they have drowned my phone in messages, keeping me awake at night," Horan shared on Twitter Tuesday.

"They have been nothing but abusive," the Irish singer continued. "Saying things you wouldn't even believe about me and my family. And saying the worst things ever about my little nephew. Thank god I'm not the kind of person who thinks into stuff like this, but I just think it's crazy how we let people away with things like this. And the sad thing is, as I tweet this, they are in the group chat laughing at me."

Horan maintained that he's taking the abuse in stride but said that he wanted to share his experience in order to shed light on the prevalence of this issue among entertainers with public platforms.

"Don't worry about me," Horan wrote. "I'm the most carefree, laid-back person around. But I'm just signalling it, because this (expletive) is happening to others."