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My daughter’s anorexia battle was blighted by social media – but I’m too addicted to quit, says David Baddiel

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AS his daughter Dolly scrolls through her phone, a reflective David Baddiel says: “You need to be careful. I need to be careful.” For the first time, David is discussing Dolly’s battle with anorexia, including how he could not protect his little girl from falling down a potentially damaging Instagram rabbit hole.

He tells her: “I was pained. I could tell it was causing you pain.” Until now, Dolly’s illness has remained a “private family matter”.

But now the 20-year-old has chosen to speak out about how being part of a “competitive” online eating disorder community impacted her rehabilitation.

In tonight’s BBC2 documentary David Baddiel: Social Media, Anger And Us, Dolly reveals: “In 2017, when I was 15, I was very, very sick for about three.

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