Sam Smith has responded to criticism after tweeting about a friend's recent racist encounter in London made him a target on social media.
After a friend was apparently berated with racist comments, Smith tweeted that he was "deeply shocked" by the whole ordeal.
"For the record, I was merely sharing an experience that I had in the hope it would draw attention to how ridiculous it is to be racist in 2016," he wrote. "This is not about me in any way. It's about a deep rooted issue we have in our society that should now be extinct. I don't profess to know or remotely understand what it means to be on the receiving end of racist abuse but having been bullied my whole life for being gay, what I do know is that it is wrong and completely unacceptable."
"Here's to people being allowed to be people."
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