Barry Keoghan has deactivated his Instagram in response to the harassment directed at him and his family following his alleged split from pop star Sabrina Carpenter, accusing fans of “crossing a line” and knocking on his grandmother’s door.

In a lengthy statement on X, the Oscar-nominated Irish actor wrote: “I can only take so much. My name was spread across the internet in a way that I don’t normally respond to. I have to respond now because it’s gotten to the point where too many boundaries are being crossed. I can’t let this stuff distract me from my family and my work anymore.”

The Saltburn star, who has a two-year-old son with a former partner, said he deactivated his Instagram account after receiving messages containing “absolute lies, hate, disgusting comments about my appearance, my character, my behavior as a Parents and…”included every other inhumane thing you can imagine…I’m talking about how I was a heroin baby and how I grew up and got my lovely mother involved too.”

Keoghan, who spoke openly about his difficult childhood in foster care and the death of his mother after she struggled with drug addiction, said the harassment had spread to his son and grandmother and accused people of “knocking on my grandma’s door “knocked” and “sat in front of my door.” The little boy’s house intimidates her. This is a border crossing.”

This isn’t the first time Keoghan has called out online trolls. In November, he said on Louis Theroux’s podcast: “People love to use my son as ammunition or whatever.” And it’s kind of making me want to stop: the more attention I’ve gotten lately and the more “The more I’m in the public eye, the less I’ve posted about my child because I don’t think it’s fair to put my child in their place online.”

Keoghan told Theroux that his son’s absence on social media meant “people are creating a narrative and saying ‘absent father, shit, dead father’ and more disgusting things that I wouldn’t even repeat.” That alone Audacity of some people, man, it makes me sick and angry.”

In his statement, Keoghan, who is filming the Netflix film “Peaky Blinders,” wrote: “Every day I work harder to strive on every level to be the healthiest, strongest person for this boy. “I want to give him opportunities , to learn, to fail and to grow. I want him to be able to look up to his father, to have complete trust in me and to know that I have his back no matter what.”

He concluded: “Remember that he will have to read EVERYTHING about his father when he is older.” Please be respectful to everyone. Thank you x.”

Keoghan had been dating Carpenter for almost a year and appeared in her “Please Please Please” video clip until reports of their breakup emerged last week.