'AT&T Lily' speaks out over sexual harassment she has been subjected to on social media

Actress Milana Vayntrub, who has appeared in hit shows such as This Is Us  but is perhaps known best to many as Lily, the friendly employee from AT&T commercials, has spoken out about the sexual harassment she has been subjected to online.

Vayntrub played Lily between 2013 to 2016, before returning to the role earlier this year, according to Insider. The actress has garnered a large social media following - nearly 740,000 followers on Instagram - yet Vayntrub's recent experience online has been one of sexual harassment and objectification.

Per Insider, last week social media users who had rediscovered the actresses' AT&T videos began posting memes that used and distorted many of her old images.

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And Instagram users flocked to a post from AT&T shared on August 17 that featured Vayntrub. The comments section of the post appears to have now been turned off, but Twitter user @megatronraid captured some of the comments written underneath the Instagram post that were shut down by AT&T.

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"We don't condone sexual harassment of employees in the workplace or on our social channels," the company wrote in one such response.

"The kind of things you'd see on AT&T's post is at such a direct contrast with the behaviors of people you'd talk to on a daily basis," the Twitter user, who goes by Lu, told Insider.

Meanwhile, Vayntrub herself revealed how the social media harassment had affected her recently.

"Maybe it just has to do with being a person on the internet, or maybe it's specific to being a woman on the internet. But all of these comments," she said, before reading several explicit comments out, "it hurts my feelings."

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A separate clip from the Instagram Live was later shared to Twitter, in which the actress said, "Let me tell you, I am not consenting to any of this. I do not want any of this."

"I'm hurting and it's bringing up, like, a lot of feelings of sexual assault," she went on, "I am just like, you know, walking my dog and getting messages from people who have distorted my pictures to get likes on their accounts."

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One Twitter user said of the clip, "I feel so bad for her. At one point in the stream she sounds like shes about to cry and dumb*sses in the comments keep going with the thing she just said makes her uncomfortable"