Chrissy Teigen has apologized to Courtney Stodden for telling her to kill themselves in a series of recently-unearthed tweets.
Taking to Twitter on Wednesday, May 12, the 35-year-old model shared a post with her 13.6 million followers on the platform, addressing the tweets she wrote to Stodden back in 2011.
Teigen wrote: "Not a lot of people are lucky enough to be held accountable for all their past bulls*** in front of the entire world. I’m mortified and sad at who I used to be. I was an insecure, attention-seeking troll."
Her regretful tweet comes after Stodden, who recently came out as non-binary, revealed that they had been cyberbullied by Teigen in the past.
Stodden, who famously married then-51-year-old Green Mile actor Doug Hutchison at the age of 16, first addressed the controversy in an Instagram post last year. They said that they still had not received an apology from Teigen.
In the video in question, Stodden stated: "[Chrissy Teigen] stalked me. She harassed me. She bullied me, and keep in mind, I was a minor.
"She would call me a whore, a slut, she would tell me she hated me. Every name in the book she called me."
When it briefly appeared as though Teigen was going to leave Twitter back in March of 2021, the now-26-year-old Stodden took to their own Twitter account to react to the news.
Sharing an image of one of Teigen's offensive tweets, Stodden wrote: "What a shame #chrissyteigen is leaving Twitter."
Teigen's tweet read: "Saying Courtney Stodden's FB [page] got shut down for being too sexy is like saying the Nazis were just meanies. As in, not quite."
In a later interview with The Daily Beast, Stodden spoke further about the alleged abuse they received at the hands of Teigen, which led to them feeling suicidal, stating:
"[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'.
"And not only her, but Joy Behar had a field day with calling me a 'slut.' Courtney Love told me I was a 'whore.'"
Previous tweets made by Teigen to Stodder saw the model - who is married to John Legend - tell Stodden to take a "dirt nap", as well as telling them "i hate you [sic]."
Continuing her apology, Chrissy wrote: "I am ashamed and completely embarrassed at my behavior but that 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!!"
She added: "I have tried to connect with Courtney privately but since I publicly fueled all this, I want to also publicly apologize. I’m so sorry, Courtney. I hope you can heal now knowing how deeply sorry I am.
"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. [sic]"
However, Stodden appeared skeptical over the sincerity of Teigen's apology.
Uploading a screenshot to Instagram showing that Teigen had still blocked them on Twitter, Stodden wrote: "I accept her apology and forgive her.
"But the truth remains the same, I have never heard from her or her camp in private. In fact, she blocked me on Twitter."
Stodden added: "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."
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