Chrissy Teigen seems to be facing consequences for hateful messages she posted on social media years ago. On Tuesday, Page Six reported that department store chain Bloomingdale’s had walked away from a deal with the model and Twitter celeb at the last minute due to allegations of cyberbullying made by Courtney Stodden.
Other retailers appeared to be distancing themselves from Teigen as well. Macy’s, owned by the same parent company as Bloomingdale’s, seems to have pulled her line of cookware from its website. Target, meanwhile, claims to have ended its partnership with Teigen months ago, according to Newsweek.
The fallout comes after The Daily Beast published a revealing interview with Stodden, who now identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. The 26-year-old first entered the public consciousness a decade ago when, at the age of 16, they married their 51-year-old acting coach and character Doug Hutchinson. Perversely, it was 16-year-old Stodden who became a media punching bag. Their over-sexualized appearance was ridiculed on national television by no less an authority than Anderson Cooper.
Teigen apparently joined in the pile-on. In March, after Teigen briefly deleted her notorious Twitter account, Stodden called her out for hypocrisy. “Seeing Chrissy Teigen leave Twitter over negativity and bullying was…I just couldn’t believe how hypocritical it was,” Stodden later told TMZ. “Because I experienced so much harassment and bullying from her when I was just 16 years old…at a time when I needed help, like I was being abused.”
Stodden shared screenshots of some of Teigen’s 2011 tweets about her: “.@CourtneyStodden my Friday fantasy: you. dirt nap. mmmmmm baby.” In The Daily Beast interview, Stodden claims that Teigen also messaged her privately. “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. Things like, ‘I can’t wait for you to die.’”
Not a lot of people are lucky enough to be held accountable for all their past bullshit in front of the entire world. I’m mortified and sad at who I used to be. I was an insecure, attention seeking troll. I am ashamed and completely embarrassed at my behavior but that…
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) May 12, 2021
On May 12, Teigen posted a lengthy thread on Twitter—where else!—apologizing for her behavior toward Stodden. “Not a lot of people are lucky enough to be held accountable for all their past bullshit in front of the entire world,” she wrote. “I’m mortified and sad at who I used to be. I was an insecure, attention seeking troll.”
Teigen also claims to have tried to connect with Stodden privately, though Stodden refutes this. “I accept her apology and forgive her,” they wrote on Instagram. “But the truth remains the same, I have never heard from her or her camp in private.” They go on to speculate that Teigen’s public apology was merely an attempt to salvage her brand partnerships.
