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May 13, 2021, 7:46 am*
The internet erupted earlier this week over an article from The Daily Beast laying out all the issues with how the media, celebrities, and the general public treated Courtney Stodden when they were a teenager married off to 50-year-old actor Dough Hutchison.
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Specifically, people have been horrified by and focused on Stodden’s revelation about they were harassed online by model Chrissy Teigen, who only just recently returned to Twitter.
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“She wouldn’t just publicly tweet about wanting me to take ‘a dirt nap’ but would privately DM me and tell me to kill myself,” Stodden revealed. “There were a lot of celebrities acting like playground bullies.”
Screencaps of Teigen’s public tweets to Stodden at the time have recirculated, and there’s no room for debate on the content — they’re genuinely awful.
Courtney Stodden opens up about being ‘bullied’ by Chrissy Teigen:
“[Chrissy 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.’”
: https://t.co/FAUolbEHPx pic.twitter.com/npfnXYGDrY
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) May 12, 2021
What’s worse, of course, is that Teigen was in her mid-20s at the time whereas Stodden was just a teenager.
Calls for Teigen to be held accountable for her comments ten years ago followed Stodden’s interview, and on Wednesday, she tweeted out an apology.
“I’m mortified and sad at who I used to be. I was an insecure, attention-seeking troll,” Teigen wrote. “I am ashamed and completely embarrassed at my behavior but that is nothing compared to how I made Courtney feel.”
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She also added that she has tried to apologize to Courtney privately and will “forever work on being better” than she was in the past.
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While Stodden says that they accept the apology and forgive her, they also pushed back at Teigen’s claim that she reached out privately.
“In fact, she blocked me on Twitter,” they wrote in an Instagram post sharing a screenshot of Teigen’s page. “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.”
Stodden isn’t the only one who has expressed a hesitance to believe Teigen’s apology.
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She said she *tried* to contact her. She could be trying via email or Insta or something else really.
— Nerdista
(@Nerdista) May 12, 2021
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Also she’s been called out on this more than once over the past couple of years. She IGNORED that.
— GageCan
(@GageCan) May 12, 2021
Others have offered up a reminder that people can change and learn from their mistakes over the course of a decade—but that doesn’t make what Stodden went through any less horrifying or require them to forgive Teigen or any of the other celebrities named who bullied them when they were a teen.
Neither Stodden nor Teigen have commented any further on everything between them just yet.
*First Published: May 13, 2021, 7:43 am
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