Chrissy Teigen has broken a month-extended social media silence with a weblog post apologising for her “past horrible tweets”. This is the initial time that the US model has addressed allegations of on-line bullying immediately after apologising to Courtney Stodden on Twitter in May. Courtney Stodden — who gained international consideration immediately after marrying 51-year-old actor Doug Hutchison at the age of 16 — in March highlighted a number of tweets that Chrissy Teigen had shared in 2011. “I hate you,” study one of the tweets. In a different, Ms Teigen told the then-teenager to take a “dirt nap”. Courtney Stodden also alleged in an interview with the Daily Beast that Chrissy Teigen had encouraged them to kill themselves in private messages.
The Courtney Stodden controversy made Chrissy Teigen a target of ‘cancel culture’ as a number of of her endorsement offers fell by way of. She faced enormous backlash on social media with men and women criticising her behaviour as bullying.
On Monday, Chrissy Teigen, 35, shared a lengthy Medium post in which she apologised for the tweets and mentioned she was reaching out to the men and women she had insulted. In the post, she ruminated on “the crushing weight of regret for the things I’ve said in the past”.
Without naming Courtney Stodden, she wrote: “I’ve apologized publicly to one person, but there are others – and more than just a few – who I need to say I’m sorry to.
“There is merely no excuse for my previous horrible tweets. My targets did not deserve them. No one does,” Ms Teigen continued.
“I was a troll, complete cease. And I am so sorry.”
In the piece, Chrissy Teigen, who is married to singer John Legend, mentioned that she tweeted some unsavoury issues and poked exciting at celebrities pondering it would make her look “cool and relatable”.
“In reality, I was insecure, immature and in a world exactly where I believed I necessary to impress strangers to be accepted,” Ms Teigen wrote. “If there was a pop culture pile-on, I took to Twitter to attempt to achieve consideration and show off what I at the time believed was a crude, clever, harmless quip. I believed it made me cool and relatable if I poked exciting at celebrities.”
She claimed she wasn’t looking for sympathy by sharing the public apology. “I’m telling you this for context, not searching for or deserving any sympathy. There’s no justification for my behavior. I’m not a victim right here,” she wrote.
Chrissy Teigen also said that she had grown as a person since she posted the tweets and that life had made her more “empathetic” while addressing the trolling she herself has faced on social media.
“I’m more understanding of what motivates trolling – the immediate gratification that you get from lashing out and clapping back, throwing rocks at somebody you feel is invincible since they are renowned,” she wrote. “Also, I know now how it feels to be on the getting finish of extraordinary vitriol. Believe me, the irony of this is not lost on me.”