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• Former Disney actress Bella Thorne posted nude photos of herself on Twitter on Saturday, in response to a hacker who threatened to leak them. 
• In a screenshot from the Notes app that accompanied the photos, Thorne said that she felt "gross" and "watched" after the hacker threatened to release her private photos to the world. 
• "I can sleep tonight better knowing I took my power back," Throne wrote. "U don't control my life u never will." 
• Thorne's decision to release the photos has left a lot of fans polarized — some feel that her decision to release the photos was empowering, while others think that she shouldn't have released them at all. 
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Former Disney actress Bella Thorne has come under fire by some for posting several topless photos of herself on Twitter on Saturday. 

Read more: Bella Thorne posted nude photos of herself on Twitter after a hacker allegedly threatened to leak them

Now, fans are sounding off on Twitter as to whether or not Thorne made a good decision by posting the photos herself. 

Supporters of Thorne felt that she was doing the right thing by posting the photos before her alleged hacker could do it

Multiple users pointed out that most everyone has taken a racy photo of themselves before — celebrities are just under more scrutiny than regular people. 

Other users on Twitter thought that Thorne's decision to release the photos was hardly empowering, and that the star got what she deserved for taking nude photos in the first place

A significant number of tweets in response to Thorne's original post encouraged the actress to leak the rest of her nude photos, and included graphic and/or sexually explicit images or requests. 

After the Hollywood Reporter tweeted a link to a story about Thorne's decision, several users also shared their thoughts on her situation. 

"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg also shared her opinion on the situation during Monday morning's episode of the show. 

She condemned Thorne's decision to take nude photos, saying, "If you're famous, I don't care how old you are. You don't take nude pictures of yourself." 

"Once you take that picture it goes into the cloud and it's available to any hacker who wants it, and if you don't know that in 2019 that this is an issue, I'm sorry," Goldberg continued. "You don't get to do that." 

Thorne was allegedly the victim of a hacker who obtained nude photos of her and threatened to circulate them online. The actress ultimately decided to post her photos before the hacker had the chance to leak the private images. 

"For too long I let a man take advantage of me over and over and I'm f-----g sick of it, I'm putting this out because it's my decision now, you don't get to take yet another thing from me," Thorne said in a Notes screenshot that accompanied her NFSW post. 

Thorne's NSFW Twitter post was still live at the time of this article. 

This isn't the first time that nude photos of celebrities have been leaked. In 2014, an iCloud-hacking ring infamously leaked nude photos of celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton. 

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