Sherri Shepherd - Sherri Shepherd Files Police Report Over Cyber-bullying

The TV personality and Precious star sought help from authorities in New York over the nasty posts on the social networking site.

She retweeted a message that read "Somebody should drag (Shepherd) in a back alley and rape (her)", to which she responded: "I am going 2 (sic) file a police report 4U (for you) threatening me. And so help me God, when I find out where u live, charges will follow."

After a few hours, she added, "Just returned from filing a police report for this online harassment nonsense. I will be pursuing this legally."

Shepherd then told her followers, "Online bullying needs 2 (sic) stop (on) Twitter - children are dying b/c (because) they don't know how to combat cowards like (this)... Bullying has gotten out of hand & it's breaking my heart that kids are out here having to deal with it."