Internet sensation Rebecca Black, who rose to fame with the video for quite possibly the worst song in the world, has been subject to death threats according to an Anaheim, California police department spokesperson.

While many may ask what took so long for them to happen, the 13 year old star of the toe curlingly horrible video which has been viewed over 100 million times on Youtube apparently had threats against her life made as her video exploded over the internet last month.

Spokesperson Rick Martinez confirmed to reporters that she had received one of the death threats by phone and the other by email. He said “In essence the threats were related to getting the music off the Internet or they were going to kill her. We can’t validate how serious they are, but we do take it seriously,”

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