On Monday, Model and Lip Sync Battle co-host, Chrissy Teigen, published a lengthy apology on her Medium blog. In the piece Teigen expresses that she experienced a “VERY humbling few weeks.”
Recently, Teigen has come under major fire for cyberbullying Courtney Stodden. The verbal attacks were prompted when Stodden, then 16, marrying then 50-year-old actor Doug Hutchison.
“(Teigen) wouldn’t just publicly tweet about wanting me to take ‘a dirt nap’ but would privately DM me and tell me to kill myself. Things like, ‘I can’t wait for you to die’” shared Stodden to The Daily Beast.
Teigen apologized to Stodden, who has since divorced Huchison, expressing in her writing, “As you know, a bunch of my old awful (awful, awful) tweets resurfaced.”
“I’m truly ashamed of them,” Teigen continued. “As I look at them and understand the hurt they caused, I have to stop and wonder: How could I have done that?”
Teigen also expressed that she now understands what it’s like to be on the receiving end of backlash, “I’m more understanding of what motivates trolling — the instant gratification that you get from lashing out and clapping back, throwing rocks at someone you think is invincible because they’re famous,” she wrote. “Also, I know now how it feels to be on the receiving end of incredible vitriol. Believe me, the irony of this is not lost on me.”
is nothing compared to how I made Courtney feel. I have worked so hard to give you guys joy and be beloved and the feeling of letting you down is nearly unbearable, truly. These were not my only mistakes and surely won’t be my last as hard as I try but god I will try!!
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) May 12, 2021
And I am so sorry I let you guys down. I will forever work on being better than I was 10 years ago, 1 year ago, 6 months ago.
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) May 12, 2021
Teigen’s reflection prompted Stodden to express how she felt via Instagram.
“In fact, she blocked me on Twitter,” Stodden wrote in the caption of a photo depicting that Teigen has her blocked. “All of me wants to believe this is a sincere apology, but it feels like a public attempt to save her partnerships with Target and other brands who are realizing her “wokeness” is a broken record” writes Stodden.