Troubled: Tallulah Wilson struggled to cope with her parents’ divorce (Picture: Wilson family)

A troubled teenage ballerina, addicted to the internet, shared photos of her own bleeding arms on self-harm websites before killing herself.

Tallulah Wilson, 15, created an online alter ego – a fantasy cocaine-taking character – in her desperation to be loved as someone else.

The teenager also regularly visited pages accused of promoting suicide before throwing herself in front of a train.

Her mother, Sarah, told an inquest: ‘I saw pictures she had posted on Tumblr of her cutting herself – I recognised her bedsheets. I realised there were young girls on there cutting themselves to see who is worse. It’s like the worst horror movie you have ever seen sitting in your house.’




Tallulah retreated into an online world as she struggled to cope with alleged bullying, her grandmother’s death and her parents’ divorce.

She was banned from owning a mobile phone or laptop – but used her mother’s computer to go online.

Mrs Wilson said she scanned the sites her daughter had visited and found another girl had posted a photo of a noose with the caption: ‘Here’s your new necklace, try it on.’

She confronted her daughter about her online fantasies. ‘She said she had 18,000 people who loved her for who she was online,’ Mrs Wilson told St Pancras coroner’s court.

The following day Tallulah left home in West Hampstead, north-west London, without her dance gear, telling her mother: ‘I don’t need my things today.’

She died later that day – October 12, 2012 – when she was hit by a train at St Pancras station. The inquest continues.

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