Star Wars

The teenager with a makeshift light sabre, who shot to unwelcome Internet fame in 2003, has finally spoken up about the nightmare of cyber bullying.Almost a billion viewers have seen the amateur footage of 14-year-old Ghyslain Raza, mucking around TV studio in his Quebec high school. In it, an earnest-looking Raza awkwardly wields a pretend light sabre, imitating a Jedi knight from Star Wars.The following year, one of his classmates posted the video on the Internet without his knowledge, spawning a massive cyberbullying attack when the footage went viral."What I saw was mean. It was violent. People were telling me to commit suicide," the now-25-year-old tells Macleans. After a decade of silence, Raza has granted an interview to a French-Canadian journalist, describing "a very dark period" during which he lost his few friends and changed schools."No matter how hard I tried to ignore people telling me to commit suicide, I couldn't help but feel worthless, like my life wasn't worth living...

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