Chrissy Teigen Apologizes Again for Cyberbullying
by EG
Chrissy Teigen has issued a lengthy apology on Instagram for her past cyberbullying behavior. Her mean tweets and private messages became a controversy weeks ago when reality TV star Courtney Stodden accused Teigen of bullying them on social media. After Stodden's protests, Teigen apologized and then went quiet on social media. Now she's back with another apology and the admission that Stodden is not the only person she behaved badly toward. Read on for details.
Via Page Six.
All of Chrissy Teigen is sorry.
The model, 35, returned to Instagram with a lengthy message to apologize for her past cyberbullying of Courtney Stodden, among others, on Monday. The post is also available to read on Medium.
“Hi all. It has been a VERY humbling few weeks,” she began. “I know I’ve been quiet, and lord knows you don’t want to hear about me, but I want you to know I’ve been sitting in a hole of deserved global punishment, the ultimate ‘sit here and think about what you’ve done.’”
“Not a day, not a single moment has passed where I haven’t felt the crushing weight of regret for the things I’ve said in the past,” she continued. “As you know, a bunch of my old awful (awful, awful) tweets resurfaced. I’m truly ashamed of them. As I look at them and understand the hurt they caused, I have to stop and wonder: How could I have done that?”
She then addressed her bullying of Stodden, who now uses they/them pronouns, saying, “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. I’m in the process of privately reaching out to the people I insulted. It’s like my own version of that show ‘My Name is Earl!’ I understand that they may not want to speak to me. I don’t think I’d like to speak to me. (The real truth in all of this is how much I actually cannot take confrontation.) But if they do, I am here and I will listen to what they have to say, while apologizing through sobs.”
Stodden, 26, accused Teigen of telling them to kill themselves in private DMs after publicly tweeting that Stodden should “take ‘a dirt nap.'” Teigen publicly apologized to Stodden in May, but Stodden claimed they never heard from her privately.
She explained, “In reality, I was insecure, immature and in a world where I thought I needed to impress strangers to be accepted. If there was a pop culture pile-on, I took to Twitter to try to gain attention and show off what I at the time believed was a crude, clever, harmless quip. I thought it made me cool and relatable if I poked fun at celebrities.”
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