Chrissy Teigen posted a mea culpa apologizing for her “awful” tweets over the years that made her an internet “troll.”
The model and cookbook author said she has been “sitting in a hole of deserved global punishment” in which she has “felt the crushing weight of regret” for her controversial comments.
“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,” she wrote in a Medium post on Monday. “I’m in the process of privately reaching out to the people I insulted … 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.”
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Teigen called her past self a “troll,” adding she “cringe[s] to [her] core” when reading some of her previous remarks.
“At the time, I just didn’t get it,” she continued. “Believe me, I get it now.”
Claiming she is “no longer the person who wrote those horrible things,” Teigen, who is married to singer John Legend, vowed to be more “empathetic.”
“I’m going to keep working to be the best version of myself for EVERYONE. Everyone deserves better — even my detractors. And better is what you can expect from me,” she pledged, asking not for forgiveness but for “patience and tolerance.”
A frequent critic of former President Donald Trump, Teigen once referred to former first lady Melania Trump as a “wifebot” in a profanity-laced rant suggesting Trump was not helping those struggling during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Has melania even thought about doing something with her be best shit during these times? I see regular ass awesome people on my timeline all day doing all they can to make people happy and this wifebot is working on whatever the f*** a tennis gazebo is,” she tweeted in March 2020.
Teigen’s apology comes after she was accused of cyberbullying by fellow model Courtney Stodden, who released a video on March 28 calling Teigen a “hypocrite” and claiming she had bullied her in private social media messages between 2011 and 2012.
“I can’t wait for you to die,” Teigen allegedly wrote in one message to Stodden.
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Teigen publicly apologized to Stodden on May 12. Stodden accepted though she noted Teigen never contacted her privately and posted a screenshot showing Teigen blocked her on Twitter.
Shortly after the controversy unfolded, Macy’s and Target pulled Teigen’s cookware line from their shelves. The 12-piece set of Teigen’s cookware line is still available for purchase on Amazon as of Monday afternoon.
