The Boys actress Erin Moriarty made her return to Instagram on Friday – just one week after she quit the platform and promised an ‘extensive, if not permanent break.’

Her decision to leave the social media network came after Megyn Kelly scathingly accused Moriarty of being obsessed with plastic surgery.

‘She’s got the Kim Kardashian lips, she’s made her nose so skinny, it looks like a pencil now,’ Kelly said. ‘I find it like a sign of mental illness.’

Moriarty, 29, retaliated by dramatically announcing her departure from Instagram, explained that she was not deleting her page, but would stop posting as the public had ‘lost the privilege of this account.’

However this Friday she relented and posted an Insta Stories message, expressing her gratitude to the ‘vulnerable’ fans who ‘came forward to talk to me’ and share ‘stories that should be heard FAR more than mine.’

The Boys actress Erin Moriarty made her return to Instagram on Friday – just one week after she quit the platform and promised an ‘extensive, if not permanent break’

Her decision to leave the social media network came after Megyn Kelly scathingly accused Moriarty of being obsessed with plastic surgery

The caption was accompanied by a picture of her cradling one of her dogs while shooting a beatific smile at the camera.

She began her message to fans by explaining that she was ‘dropping in to say 1) I love you all 2) v grateful to be holding my little dude again.’

Moriarty added: ‘and 3) to the those that came forward to talk to me, were vulnerable enough to share: you are f*cking amazing. stories that should be heard FAR more than mine. I do believe we have a long way to go. in the meantime: talk to me.’

The Jessica Jones alumna insisted: ‘I wanna hear. safe zones, empathy and/or sympathy, and catharsis: a medicinal combo. trust me.’

Moriarty announced her initial departure from Instagram a week after Kelly sparked backlash with a recent podcast episode in which she took aim at Moriarty’s looks.

Moriarty chose not to deactivate her Instagram account altogether so fans could still see her scathing message directed at 53-year-old Megyn Kelly.

She told fans and haters alike they had ‘lost the privilege of this account.’

Moriarty, 29, explained in a highly-emotive statement that she was not deleting her social media account – but instead she would be taking an ‘extensive, if not permanent’ break from being online

Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly sparked backlash with a recent podcast appearance , where she said of Moriarty: ‘She’s got the Kim Kardashian lips, she’s made her nose so skinny, it looks like a pencil now… I find it like a sign of mental illness’

The actress wrote: ‘The only reason I have not deactivated my account is because I will be leaving this here. Otherwise, consider it deactivated.

‘I will not have access to it for an extensive if not permanent break.

‘Social media is not something that came naturally to me and that was an investment of energy to connect with you guys.

‘And I am horrified by the reaction, the reductive assumptions, and the aforementioned video [of Kelly’s comments] that is a primary example of such harassment.

‘It’s broken my heart. You’ve broken my heart. You’ve lost the privilege of this account.

‘The way that this has been spoken about, the way that I have been spoken to, I will not accept. I have been in a hole and I’ve been consumed by this personal situation at hand.

‘You never know what someone is going through, social media is a platform that is not representative of a whole person, and irregardless there is no excuse for the words that have been spoken directly to me or about me.’

Actress Erin Moriarty recently shared this image to her Instagram, sparking allegations from Megyn Kelly she had ‘completely changed her face’ with plastic surgery. In response, Moriarty said the image was taken a decade ago, and her changed look was only due to ‘contouring’

Moriarty shared the response almost a week after Kelly’s controversial podcast remarks, saying she ‘had no idea what was going on ‘amid social media frenzy because she was going through ‘one of the most challenging weeks of my life.’

‘And I specifically thought that as I emerge this period of time – so stressed that I have BARELY been able to eat and sleep – I thought ok, I’m going to emerge this 10 pounds thinner and the verbal abuse/ accusations will be flying,’ she continued.

While Moriarty said she was expecting viewers to suspect she was on drugs or hit her with ‘a flippant ‘just eat a burger’ comment’, she was stunned by the hostile reaction that came instead.

‘You learn to become Teflon and move on – I had NO idea what was going on this time,’ she said in the post.

‘To receive a message about a disgustingly false, counterproductive to the degree of being ironically misogynistic video of Megyn Kelly commenting on the manner (sic) – to learn the widespread nature of this has left me horrified.’

Although Kelly claimed in her appearance that the image of Moriarty, which the actress shared recently on her Instagram before deleting it, was from ‘a year ago’, Moriarty said it was actually far older.

Moriarty, 29, slammed Kelly’s comments on her looks as ‘utterly misinformed, inaccurate and clickbait seeking’

Moriarty shared the response almost a week after Kelly’s controversial podcast remarks, saying she ‘had no idea what was going on’ amid social media frenzy because she was going through ‘one of the most challenging weeks of my life’

She said the picture ‘had in actuality been taken about a decade ago before I was of LEGAL DRINKING AGE’, and called on Kelly to ‘maybe do some research that would take 30 seconds.’

‘How utterly misinformed, inaccurate and clickbait seeking people who we follow and consider to be informed is appalling,’ Moriarty said in the furious post, which contained a number of grammatical errors.

The remarks in question came in Kelly’s podcast earlier this month with journalist Michael Knowles, where she accused Moriarty of ‘completely changing her face’ with plastic surgeries.

She made the comments in response to Moriarty sharing the allegedly decade-old picture this month, as Kelly continued: ‘She’s got the Kim Kardashian lips. She’s made her nose so skinny it looks like a pencil now.

‘She’s got, like, what appear[s] to me to be cheek implants.

‘More and more young women are doing this.

‘It’s not about an objection to plastic surgery, it’s about an obsession with turning yourself into this fake version of yourself… I find it like a sign of mental illness.

‘It’s extremely upsetting. It’s just a massive turnoff to me. I really want to get in the heads of these young girls and say, ‘Please don’t do this,” she said.