The Last of Us' Bella Ramsey defends Kaitlyn Dever over Abby hate comments

22 April 2025, 19:22 | Updated: 22 April 2025, 21:33

The Last of Us' Bella Ramsey calls out fans for sending Abby actor Kaitlyn Dever hate. Picture: Capital Buzz, HBO

By Sam Prance

Bella Ramsey also spoke out about how people have sent them hate just for playing Ellie.

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Bella Ramsey has something to say about the unfair hate comments directed towards The Last of Us' Abby actor Kaitlyn Dever on social media.

If you've played The Last of Us games, you will already be well aware how people feel about Abby. The controversial character is introduced in The Last of Us Part II and she does something so shocking and unexpected that people immediately hated her.

Now the HBO series has aired that specific moment, fans are urging others to not spread hate towards Kaitlyn Dever who plays Abby in the show. Laura Bailey, who played Abby in the games, received horrific messages and sickening threats when Part II was released in 2020.

Anticipating backlash due to the divisive character, Kaitlyn also had to have extra security while filming The Last of Us season 2. Now Bella, who plays Ellie, has spoken out against that hate.

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Speaking to Capital Buzz about the online hate, Bella said: "Nobody hate on Kaitlyn. Why would you do that? It's just unnecessary. I mean, people hate on me too. People love to hate people but I don't really enjoy that. And I just think that, we're playing characters, ok and that's all there is to it."

Praising Kaitlyn, Bella added: "She's so funny in real life. She's such a brilliant actor and an incredible human being. I didn't realise how funny she was until I did go out and play pool with [the cast], me and Kaitlyn got an Uber back together and I was killing myself laughing."

Bella ended by saying: "No hate for Kaitlyn. No hate for anybody. Quit that. What the hell is that? Why would you spend your time doing that?"

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The duo's co-star Isabela Merced (who plays Dina) also previously issued a strong reminder to fans that Abby is "not a real person" prior to season 2's release.

Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast in 2024, Isabela spoke about having to deal with scrutiny and toxicity from certain areas of the fandom.

"There's so many strange people in this world because there are people that actually genuinely hate Abby, who is not a real person," Isabela said when Kaitlyn was mentioned. "Just a reminder: Not a real person."

"I'm so excited for people to see how incredibly well Bella and Kaitlyn did on this." Amen!