Australian DJ Mel Greig has attacked those who bullied her after 2DayFM's infamous 2012 prank phone call to the hospital treating Kate Middleton and declared "trolling needs to stop".
Greig, who apologised for the hoax after last month's inquest into the death of nurse Jacintha Saldanha, said the backlash was hypocritical because the people accusing her of being a bully themselves acted like bullies.
The radio host has told BBC television: "The trolling and the death threats were disgusting."
"I was in lockdown for months," the 32-year-old said on Monday.
"There were bullets with our name on it sent to police stations.
"Trolling needs to stop."
Greig, who posed as the Queen when the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated for morning sickness, said the worst moment was when her mother was threatened.
"When you bring my mother into it, and I didn't want to cry, but it's just ... that's the difference and that's unnecessary.
"They are calling me a bully (but) they are doing the same thing to me."
Indian-born Ms Saldanha answered the prank phone call from Greig and co-host Michael Christian and, believing it to be genuine, put the DJs through to Kate's ward.
Days later the nurse took her own life.
Greig says she will always feel partly responsible.
"My name was in someone's suicide note," the DJ told Woman's Day in Australia on Monday.
"Nothing will change the fact that Jacintha thought of me before she took her own life and that is something that is really hard to come to terms with."
Greig will appear at the Radio Festival 2014 in England on Tuesday to discuss the hoax call and subsequent death of Ms Saldanha.
She'll be interviewed by British broadcaster Daisy McAndrew.
The annual festival attracts leading industry figures from the BBC, commercial radio and independent stations.
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