Quaden Bayles: Wolverine has your back, buddy.
The 9-year-old boy from Australia went viral Thursday after his mom shared a heartbreaking video of her bullied son sobbing and saying, “I want someone to kill me.”
Actor and fellow Aussie Hugh Jackman reached out via Twitter to Quaden, who was born with achondroplasia, a genetic disorder that results in dwarfism.
“Quaden, you are stronger than you know, mate,” Jackman, 51, says in a Twitter video to the boy, whose frustrated mom posted footage of him breaking down in the family car after being called names at school.
“I wish I could stab myself in my heart,” Quaden cried in the gut-wrenching video, which has been viewed more than 21 million times.
Jackman, and a growing chorus of other celebrities, wanted Quaden to know he has new friends who support him.
“No matter what, you’ve got a friend in me,” the “X-Men” star said in the clip, which has been liked more than 41,000 times as of Friday afternoon.
“Everyone, let’s please be kind to each other,” Jackman continued. “Bullying is not okay, period. Life is hard enough. So, let’s just remember, every person in front of us is facing some kind of battle. So let’s just be kind.”
“Supernatural,” star Jeffrey Dean Morgan, 53, also reached out with support for Quaden.
“My man,” he said in a video that’s garnered 119,000 likes, “what I want you to know is that you have friends, me included. I am your buddy. You haven’t met me yet, but we’ll see if we can change that.”
Mark Hamill, 68, legendary for playing Luke Skywalker in “Star Wars,” offered harsh words for Quaden’s bullies. “The cruelty is as astonishing as it is heartbreaking,” he tweeted.
And the general public is also showing Quaden their support, through an outpouring of love as well as cash: A GoFundMe started to send the boy to Disneyland has raised more than $278,000.
“Nobody knows the battles we face in private,” Quaden’s mom, Yarraka Bayles, said in her original video. “I usually share all the positive highlights, but this stuff needs to be addressed to save our babies’ lives.”
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