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The Cyberbullying That Actress and Comedian Maysoon Zayid Endured

Season 1 Episode 108
Aired on 03/22/2015 | CC tv-pg
Maysoon Zayid, a Palestinian-American actress who has cerebral palsy, got her big break when she was asked to appear on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Being on television was everything Maysoon had ever dreamed of...until she got home and read the comments online.

"There were these people that were saying I was disgusting," she says. "That I was distracting. That they couldn't even watch me."

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