{"id":338246,"date":"2026-03-20T00:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/338246\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T00:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:02:08","slug":"actor-adam-pearson-hits-back-at-comedians-cruel-tweet-about-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/338246\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Adam Pearson hits back at comedian\u2019s cruel tweet about him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Adam Pearson has publicly hit back at a comedian who mocked his appearance in a cruel viral tweet.<\/p>\n<p>A Different Man star Pearson, who has severe facial disfigurement due to the condition neurofibromatosis, was in attendance at Monday\u2019s Academy Awards in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<p>Comedian and podcaster Danny Polishchuk shared a photo of Pearson on the red carpet at the event with his 100,000+ followers on X this week, accompanied with a nasty caption: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe and the boys after taking Chinese Peptides for 5 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polishchuk was referring to the growing, largely unregulated market for buying synthetic peptides online, primarily from Chinese suppliers, for purposes like weight loss and muscle gain. <\/p>\n<p>What he perhaps hadn\u2019t realised, though, is that Pearson is also active on X, and was among the three million + people who\u2019ve seen the tweet. Pearson reposted it with a <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Adam_Pearson\/status\/2034641928659091599\" rel=\"nofollow\">caption of his own<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was today years old when I learned that taking Peptides for 5 years made you an Academy member, award-winning actor and Oscars attendee!\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can tell a lot about a persons character by looking at who they\u2019re willing to punch down towards \u2013 even in the name of comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pearson\u2019s followers applauded him for sticking it to the bully.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod bless you, sir, for having to endure this kind of hateful crap,\u201d one fan tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDanny little bit jealous of your talent, success and style methinks,\u201d another suggested. <\/p>\n<p>Polishchuck posted the tweet almost 24 hours ago; it\u2019s still online and he has yet to respond to Pearson\u2019s tweet. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time Pearson has clapped back at hateful comments about his appearance on social media. <\/p>\n<p>In February last year, he responded to a person on X who described his appearance as \u201cgenuinely so scary\u201d when a seating chart for the BAFTAs showed that he would be seated next to pop star Camila Cabello. \u201cI would not attend the event if I were Camila,\u201d the social media user declared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuckily for everyone you\u2019re not Camila and \u2014 most importantly \u2014 weren\u2019t invited,\u201d Pearson wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo from me, Adam Pearson, directly to you \u2014 take your nonsense opinions elsewhere as I have exactly zero time for your anonymous, ableist nonsense.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Pearson, 41, made his acting debut in the 2013 film Under the Skin, but 2024\u2019s A Different Man became his big break in Hollywood: He played a lead role of Edward, an actor with neurofibromatosis who undergoes an experimental procedure to change his face. <\/p>\n<p>Pearson was nominated for several awards for his performance, including the Independent Spirit Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Adam Pearson has publicly hit back at a comedian who mocked his appearance in a cruel viral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[181073,181074,181084,12587,181079,84543,181078,179,44554,430,181075,181076,181067,181068,181071,181070,156,147707,9499,4223,181072,2047,86259,111,139,178073,181069,64,13902,69,181083,3482,181082,1414,181081,181077,15661,181080,13883,560],"class_list":["post-338246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-academy-apologisesteyana","tag-academy-member","tag-adam-pearson","tag-america","tag-arturo-holmes","tag-awards-season","tag-buying-synthetic-peptides","tag-california","tag-camila-cabello","tag-celebrities","tag-chinese-suppliers","tag-condition-neurofibromatosis","tag-cruel-diss","tag-cruel-tweet","tag-danny-polishchuck","tag-drainage-ditch","tag-entertainment","tag-facial-disfigurement","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-hollywood","tag-john-locher","tag-los-angeles","tag-muscle-gain","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nick-bond","tag-nonsense-opinions","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-nz","tag-persons-character","tag-red-carpet","tag-seating-chart","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-user","tag-star-hits","tag-teyana-taylor","tag-unflattering-party-photos","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}