Chrissy Teigen has issued a lengthy apology for her “past horrible tweets,” and said she’s privately reaching out to “the people I insulted”.
The TV host and supermodel with 13.5 million Twitter followers had been quiet on social media in recent weeks after apologising last month to reality star Courtney Stodden, who accused Teigen of mocking her and telling her to kill herself in 2011, when Stodden was 16.
Chrissy Teigen says she has reached out to people she abused on Twitter.Credit:AP
Teigen, 35, wrote in a Medium post published on Monday that there are “more than just a few” people to whom she needs to say sorry.
“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 humour.
“I was a troll, full stop. And I am so sorry.”
Teigen wrote that she acted like a different person on social media than she did in real life.
Reality show star Courtney Stodden, pictured on the right at an awards show in 2015, said Chrissy Teigen, on the left in 2020, followed up mocking tweets with direct messages wishing for her death. Credit:AP
“In reality, I was insecure, immature and in a world where I thought I needed to impress strangers to be accepted,” Teigen wrote. “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.
“Now, confronted with some of the things that I said, I cringe to my core,” she continued. “I’ll honestly get sharp, stabbing pains in my body, randomly remembering my asshole past, and I deserve it.”