Recently, model Courtney Stodden in an interview with Daily Beast, accused Chrissy Teigan of cyberbullying her when she was just 16 years old.
Who is Courtney Stodden?
Courtney is an American media personality, who entered the entertainment industry at a very young age. She became popular through beauty pageants and releasing music.
She then got famous by getting married to a 51-year-old actor, Doug Hutchison at the age of 16. She gained a lot of media attention and this is where Teigan discovered her as well and starting tweeting about her.
Chrissy Teigan cyberbullying tweets to Courtney Stodden
In the interview with Daily Beast, Stodden mentioned the backlash she received from getting married to her ex-husband when she was so young. She brought up that Teigan told her to kill herself on Twitter.
Courtney said Teigan also said things like “I can’t wait for you to die,” according to CapitalXtra.
After the interview was released, Teigan’s deleted tweets about Stodden found themselves on the internet once again.
This was Teigan’s apology
After weeks of silence, Teigan finally spoke up. She took it to Instagram to post a lengthy apology. She wrote:
“Hi all. It has been a VERY humbling few weeks. 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.
“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.”
At the end of her apology, Teigan noted:
“I won’t ask for your forgiveness, 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.”
The Lip Sync Battle host has been cut off from her role in Mindy Kaling’s Netflix series Never Have I Ever. According to News24, the show will have to recast.