Chrissy Teigen Apologizes For Vicious Previous Tweets: ‘There Is Merely No Excuse’

Chrissy Teigen has vowed to hunt “self enchancment and alter” after weeks of controversy over her previous feedback on social media. 

The mannequin and cookbook writer on Monday revealed a Medium weblog submit wherein she acknowledged having skilled the “crushing weight of remorse for the issues I’ve mentioned previously.” 

“There may be merely no excuse for my previous horrible tweets,” Teigen wrote. “My targets didn’t deserve them. Nobody does. Lots of them wanted empathy, kindness, understanding and help, not my meanness masquerading as a form of informal, edgy humor.”

“I used to be a troll, full cease,” she added. “And I’m so sorry.”

Teigen’s feedback come a couple of month after Courtney Stodden accused her of routinely bullying them on-line. The truth star, who’s nonbinary, recalled previous tweets despatched by Teigen in 2011 wherein she informed the then-16-year-old to kill themself. 

“She wouldn’t simply publicly tweet about wanting me to take ‘a dust nap’ however would privately DM me and inform me to kill myself,” they informed The Each day Beast in Could. “Issues like, ‘I can’t wait so that you can die.’”

Simply days after Stodden made the allegations, Teigen apologized in a Twitter thread. “I’m mortified and unhappy at who I was,” she wrote on the time. “I used to be an insecure, consideration searching for troll.” Earlier this month, Netflix confirmed she’d dropped out of a deliberate look on the collection “By no means Have I Ever” amid the controversy. 

On Monday, Teigen steered away from mentioning Stodden by identify, noting solely that she’d “apologized publicly to 1 individual.” A lot of her weblog, nonetheless, learn like a preemptive mea culpa to others who would possibly come ahead with comparable claims.   

“Phrases have penalties and there are actual folks behind the Twitter handles I went after,” she mentioned. “I wasn’t simply attacking some random avatar, however hurting younger ladies — some who have been nonetheless ladies — who had emotions. How might I not cease and consider that?”

Elsewhere within the weblog submit, Teigen described a transparent division between her social media commentary and real-life conduct, and famous that she was “within the means of privately reaching out to the folks I insulted.”

“I received’t ask to your forgiveness, solely your endurance and tolerance,” she added. “I ask that you just permit me, as I promise to permit you, to personal previous errors and be given the chance to hunt self enchancment and alter.” 

Teigen, 35, boasts greater than 13.5 million Twitter followers, and is mostly identified for her witty, effervescent musings. Nonetheless, her social media presence has gotten extra checkered as of late. Simply weeks earlier than Stodden went public with their allegations, the mom of two introduced she was quitting Twitter, explaining that she’d develop into “a distinct human” within the decade-plus she’d been lively on the social community.

Her March departure got here days after she acquired backlash for collaborating with Kris Jenner on a line of plant-based cleansing merchandise. She was additionally criticized when she opened up a couple of traumatic being pregnant loss final yr.

By mid-April, she reactivated her account, noting, “seems it feels TERRIBLE to silence your self and likewise not get pleasure from stomach chuckles randomly all through the day.”