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‘I Was a Troll, Full Stop. And I Am Sorry’: Chrissy Teigen Issues Lengthy Apology Following Bullying Scandal​

Shanelle Genai
Mon, June 14, 2021
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Chrissy Teigen attends Global Citizen VAX LIVE: The Concert To Reunite The World in Inglewood, California.
The world has a lot to say about “cancel culture”—whether or not it works, or if it even exists in the first place.

Oftentimes though, what some folks deem as “cancellation” is nothing more than the sharp, hot feeling of someone holding them accountable for the things they’ve done. And nobody likes that feeling.

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Famous or not, nobody likes it when someone holds a mirror up to their face and shows them all the wrong they did or all the harm they caused—and demands they acknowledge and take ownership of that wrong and harm and get on the path of some serious course correction. It happens to the best (and worst) of us from time to time though and if you need proof of that, look no further than Chrissy Teigen.

For context, the model and cookbook author recently made her return to Twitter in the form of a lengthy apology (posted on Medium) after a nearly month-long break. Why the break, you ask? Well back in March, TV personality Courtney Stodden posted a series of since-deleted Instagram videos detailing the myriad of crass and abhorrent jokes Teigen made about them (Stodden is nonbinary and uses they/them) at the beginning of the 2010s and into 2011.

Vox with the scoop:

Stodden first became famous in 2011, when at the age of 16 they married 50-year-old acting coach Doug Hutchison. (Stodden is nonbinary.) Stodden and Hutchinson are now divorced, and from the vantage point of 2021, it’s clear that during their marriage, Stodden was a child who was being abused by an adult man. But in 2011, Stodden was widely considered to be someone ridiculous and mockable, someone whose feelings you didn’t have to care about. People called them “the child bride” and made vicious jokes at their expense. Teigen was not only one of many to make those jokes, but did so in a particularly brutal fashion, directing them right at Stodden.
“I experienced so much harassment and bullying from her when I was just 16 years old,” Stodden said of Teigen in an Instagram video in March of 2021. “At a time when I needed help. I was being abused.”Stodden revealed multiple tweets Teigen sent to them at the beginning of the 2010s. “my Friday fantasy: you. dirt nap. mmm baby,” Teigen tweeted at Stodden in 2011. In another tweet, she simply wrote, “I hate you.”
“It really affected me,” Stodden said in their Instagram video. “It’s so damaging when you have somebody like Chrissy Teigen bullying children.”
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Then in May, the Daily Beast published an interview with Stodden where they went into further detail about just how bad Teigen’s bullying tweets were. That article understandably went viral and caused a chain of reactions.Teigen issued a series of apology tweets not too long after and then went on a short hiatus until today.


In her apology letter, titled Hi Again, Teigen talks about how she had been “sitting in a hole of deserved global punishment, the ultimate ‘sit here and think about what you’ve done’” and acknowledged the fact that there was “simply no excuse for my past horrible tweets.

“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 wrote in part.

“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. There is simply no excuse for my past horrible tweets. My targets didn’t deserve them. No one does. Many of them needed empathy, kindness, understanding and support, not my meanness masquerading as a kind of casual, edgy humor.
I was a troll, full stop. And I am so sorry.”
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She concludes by saying, “I have so much love to give if you are open and willing to accept it. And if not, that’s okay too. That’s something I work on being more okay with every day. I know I let you down, but I hope I can make you proud. It’s been a heavy few weeks, so I’m going to take some more time to focus on things that are most important — being with my family and taking care of myself. We are all more than our worst moments. I won’t ask for your forgiveness, only your patience and tolerance. I ask that you allow me, as I promise to allow you, to own past mistakes and be given the opportunity to seek self improvement and change.”
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A week from now she will be back trolling conservatives and the Twitter Mob will embrace her as if nothing happened. This is how the world works now. However, it's nice to see her on her knees again, though..
 
Chrissy Teigen is lame and I don't feel bad for her taking (an extremely light) hit, but getting mad about something someone tweeted a decade ago is insanely stupid. Twitter used to be for fun shitposting, anybody who has an account created before the Internet was irreparably ruined (2016) likely has some pretty suspect stuff on there.

Anyway I hate that I know who this ugly woman is.
 
CR4E said:
Chrissy Teigen is lame and I don't feel bad for her taking (an extremely light) hit, but getting mad about something someone tweeted a decade ago is insanely stupid. Twitter used to be for fun shitposting, anybody who has an account created before the Internet was irreparably ruined (2016) likely has some pretty suspect stuff on there.

Anyway I hate that I know who this ugly woman is.
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I'd agree if she didn't participate in the same behavior towards people she didn't like. Bitch cut herself with her own sword.
 
SiccDicc said:
I'd agree if she didn't participate in the same behavior towards people she didn't like. Bitch cut herself with her own sword.
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That's why I don't feel bad for her. I just (this is where A&N rainbows are missed) hope this leads to her mouth breathing cat mom fans taking decades old "HE SAID THE NO NO WORD AS A TEEN NOOOOO" posting with a grain of salt.
 
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Chrissy Teigen Broke Her Social Media Silence And Apologized For Her "Past Horrible Tweets"​

"I was a troll, full stop. And I am so sorry."
By Tasneem Nashrulla
Posted on June 14, 2021, at 2:08 p.m. ET

Chrissy Teigen has broken her monthlong social media silence to apologize for trolling and bullying young women on Twitter in the past.

In a Medium post published Monday, Teigen wrote, "I was a troll, full stop. And I am so sorry."

Teigen, a model turned cookbook author and social media celebrity, stopped tweeting and Instagramming last month, after TV personality Courtney Stodden recently accused Teigen of harassing and bullying them on Twitter around 10 years ago.

Stodden, who is nonbinary, resurfaced old tweets and DMs from Teigen in which she told the then-16-year-old to kill themself and called them names.

Stodden, who was cruelly mocked and slut-shamed by the public and media when they married 50-year-old actor Doug Hutchison as a teenager in 2011, said in interviews and on social media that Teigen would "privately DM me and tell me to kill myself. Things like, 'I can’t wait for you to die.'"

"She has sent me so many different tweets," Stodden said. "Private DMs, up 'til a couple years ago. It's so damaging when you have someone like Chrissy Teigen bullying children."

In a series of tweets on May 12, Teigen apologized to Stodden, saying, "I'm mortified and sad at who I used to be. I was an insecure, attention seeking troll."

She remained silent until her Medium post on Monday, which expanded on her Twitter apology and acknowledged that her past attention-seeking social media behavior was cruel and immature.

"There is simply no excuse for my past horrible tweets," Teigen wrote. "My targets didn’t deserve them. No one does. Many of them needed empathy, kindness, understanding and support, not my meanness masquerading as a kind of casual, edgy humor. I was a troll, full stop. And I am so sorry."

Teigen said she was in the process of privately reaching out to people she had insulted in the past. She said she first started using social media to "snark at some celebrities."

"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," she wrote.

"In reality, I was insecure, immature and in a world where I thought I needed to impress strangers to be accepted," Teigen said, adding that she now cringes when confronted with her past words.

"I wasn’t just attacking some random avatar, but hurting young women — some who were still girls — who had feelings. How could I not stop and think of that?" she said.

Teigen said she was not seeking sympathy and there was no justification for her behavior.

"I'm not a victim here," she said, but added that she was "no longer the person who wrote those horrible things" after getting married, having kids, and attending therapy.

She said she was going to take more time to focus on her family and herself.

"We are all more than our worst moments," Teigen wrote. "I won’t ask for your forgiveness, only your patience and tolerance. I ask that you allow me, as I promise to allow you, to own past mistakes and be given the opportunity to seek self improvement and change."
 
Troll's remorse claims another one.
Whuh happun Chrissy? Not supermodel pretty anymore and running head first into your past actions?

It always sucks when retards try to make up for their past by going in the opposite direction.
 
Stodden, who was cruelly mocked and slut-shamed by the public and media when they married 50-year-old actor Doug Hutchison as a teenager in 2011, said in interviews and on social media that Teigen would "privately DM me and tell me to kill myself. Things like, 'I can’t wait for you to die.'"
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Teigen is a worthless attention whore, but this is a case of "a broken clock is right twice a day".
 
Can someone explain to me how she is a model, she is a legit 4/10 at best, make up can do wonders but when you are as ugly as her only so much that can even do. Legit looks like a troon.
 
She has the right opinions, sucks sacred nigger dick, and votes the proper way, Consequences will not apply to her or her actions.
 
Product Placement said:
Can someone explain to me how she is a model, she is a legit 4/10 at best, make up can do wonders but when you are as ugly as her only so much that can even do. Legit looks like a troon.
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She's hideous and absolutely devoid of any talent, I never understood why there were all those articles about her. Hope I never have to see the face only a troon could love ever again.
 
UselessIdiot said:
Chrissy Teigen is one of the most cringeworthy "personalities " out there. She posted photos on social media of herself crying in the hospital when she miscarried.
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That hospital thing... somewhere I saw it pointed out that the name on her ID bracelet didn't match her or something. I'll try to find it but that whole thing happened right about the time she was getting noticed about something else and seemed suspicious.

This isn't what I was looking for but it reminded me of how cringy and staged those pictures were, and that any side-eye cast her way would get you labeled as a Qanon believer.
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Heartless trolls target Chrissy Teigen after devastating loss of baby

Trolls have targeted Chrissy Teigen with conspiracy theories after she and partner John Legend announced they'd lost their third child due to pregnancy complications.
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Chrissy Teigen miscarriage news targeted by QAnon trolls spouting Piz…

archived 15 Jun 2021 15:54:06 UTC
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Remember guise, it's not that she's a horrible piece of shit, it's that horrible internet QAnon Trump supporting TROLLS are out to get her!

Edit - Found the thing about the hospital bracelet. The original tweet is gone but there's an archive.


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Darby Lane on Twitter: "Why does Chrissy Teigen’s hospital name band …

archived 2 Oct 2020 04:50:32 UTC
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