♪ looking for freedom >> reporter: dancing to "freedom" by anthony hamilton and elena boynton, the messagef, love who you are, ignore the haters. then she sat down with us. are you ever concerned you're going to stir up the haters again? >> i think it's a conversation that needed to be talked about. and it's my responsibility to talk about it. >> reporter: fifth harmony was touring when normani gave this interview to "galore" magazine. >> very quirky. >> reporter: that tiny pause unleashed a torrent of vile trolling. >> i was getting racial slander. images of me being hung, whipped, beaten. and it really affected me. >> maybe i'm just being a naive middle-aged white man, but i'm surprised at the racial aspect of this. i really am. from a younger generation. >> right. >> reporter: apparently, some people thought she was dissing a bandmate. >> being shady as they call it, as the kids call it nowadays. and i was not. >> reporter: she apologized for any inadvertent offense. it got worse. do you know who any of these people were who were attacking you on social media? >> no. just trolls. >> rep