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It hasn’t been long since Courtney Stodden revealed how Chrissy Teigen incessantly bullied her online to include telling her to kill herself multiple times. And what was it over? She was seeing a man decades her elder. The whole weird thing about it was that she carried on as if she had slept with her husband John Legend. And to make it worse, the girl was a minor at the time. I mean JFC.
But Teigen decided to address the situation on social media today saying, “There is simply no excuse for my past horrible tweets.” She said she was “insecure and immature” for trying to use “edgy humor” as a cover for her being a “troll.”
“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,” Chrissy began.
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? 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.”
“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,” she included.
“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,” Chrissy began.
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? 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.”
“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,” she included.
Being humble, she asked the public not only for “forgiveness” but she “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. Phew. A lot, I know. Thanks for listening,” she continued.
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Then there is Project Runway fashion designer Michael Costello who says received her ire over a photoshopped tweet circulating where he allegedly used a racial slur directed at her. He addressed her causing him to want to commit suicide in 2014 on his Instagram today saying, “For the past 7 years, I’ve lived with a deep, unhealed trauma.” He said the 35 year old model “apparently formed her own opinion of me based on a Photoshopped comment floating around the internet which has now been proven to be false by Instagram and since taken down.”
When he attempted to explain what happened, she “told me that my career was over and that all my doors will be shut from there on,” he said. Teigen and her stylist Michael Rose had “gone out of their way to threaten people and brands that if they were in any shape or form associated with me, they would not work with any of them.
“Each time I have pleaded with Chrissy Teigen or Monica Rose to see the whole story before believing a false narrative a former disgruntled employee cast upon me, they didn’t give me the time of day,” he added. Then he posted screenshots of her telling him, “Racist people like you deserve to suffer and die. You might as well be dead. Your career is over, just watch.”
“I didn’t see the point of living,” Costello, 38, wrote. “There was no way I can ever escape from being the target of the powerful elites in Hollywood.”
“I am not okay,” he continued. “I may never be okay, but today, I am choosing to speak my truth.”
In the caption of his post, Costello noted, however, that “You do not have to say anything mean or hurtful about them in the comments I am trying every day to love myself and forget this [happened]. This is step 1.”
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I just have to say how outrageously evil this is. And in the case of Costello, when he tried to explain himself and she chose not to listen, then telling him he deserved to die is just uncalled for. And I’ll add that this is a gorgeous woman who has had a pretty good career. Why she feels the need to be this mean girl and to this level is baffling.
