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Alyssa Milano called out online trolls for targeting her 12-year-old son after she asked for donations to support his baseball fundraiser.
The “Charmed” alum, 51, took to social media Thursday to respond to mean messages her 12-year-old son Milo Thomas received following his mom’s efforts to gather money for his baseball team’s upcoming trip.
“Every parent raises money for their child’s sports teams and many of them do so through GoFundMe. I am no different,” Milano wrote on Instagram.
“As much as I’d love to pay for the entire team and their families for travel, transportation, hotel, food and beverage, uniforms, trading pins and all the things teams do for this kind of trip — I can not afford to do so. Maybe someday.”
Milano claims that if she had paid for everyone, trolls would still “find something else to be hurtful about.”
“Regardless of how you feel about me, going on to my hardworking 12 year old son’s Instagram page and leaving these kinds of messages is so horrid,” she went on. “Leave the kids alone. Let them play baseball.”
Alyssa Milano called out online trolls for targeting her 12-year-old son after she asked for donations to support his baseball fundraiser. Instagram/@milano_alyssa“If you are against donating — don’t donate. If you’d like to donate to help the team’s families — we appreciate it — the link is in his bio,” she added.
In the screenshots, Milano’s son defended his mom from a troll who slammed the “selfish” actress for “asking middle income people from society to donate to a baseball team.”
“You do realize I’m only 12 and I love my mom. My mom is the greatest human of all time. She does everything for everyone,” he responded to one person.
The “Charmed” alum, 51, shared mean messages her 12-year-old son received on social media. Alyssa Milano / Instagram The 12-year-old asked trolls to “get off” his social media page. Alyssa Milano / InstagramFor more Page Six you love ...
Listen to our weekly “We Hear” podcast Subscribe to our daily newsletter Shop our exclusive merchTo another, he wrote, “Please get off my page. I’m only 12.”
Milano last week defended asking for donations, insisting that she’s “paid for uniforms for the entire team and coaches, thrown bday parties and sponsor any kid who can’t afford monthly dues.”
Milano defended asking people for donations for her son’s baseball team’s upcoming trip. Alyssa Milano / InstagramLast week, the “Who’s The Boss?” alum sent her Twitter followers into a frenzy after posting a link to a GoFundMe to help her 12-year-old son Milo’s team, Birds 12U, raise $10,000 “for their Cooperstown trip.”
“Any amount would be so greatly appreciated,” she wrote, as the fundraiser page explained that contributions would go toward “travel costs,” “uniforms,” “dues for families” and “pins or novelty items to make [their] tournaments memorable experiences beyond the field.”