Last week, Chrissy Teigen, the once-unofficial-mayor of Twitter, announced that she was quitting the platform.
“Hey. For over 10 years, you guys have been my world. I honestly owe so much to this world we have created here. I truly consider so many of you my actual friends,” Chrissy tweeted on Wednesday (March 25).
“But it’s time for me to say goodbye,” she continued. “This no longer serves me as positively as it serves me negatively, and I think that’s the right time to call something.”
Chrissy has since deleted her account – and a quick search on the platform now turns up a “This account doesn’t exist” result.
But Courtney Stodden is out here claiming that the model and cookbook author used to bully her back in the day.
Courtney posted a screenshot of one of Chrissy’s old tweets from 2011 that made fun of Courtney’s FB account being shut down for being “too sexy,” and captioned it, “What a shame @chrissyteigen is leaving Twitter … it’s too ‘negative’ for herrrrrr #chrissyteigen #bully”
In her goodbye message, Chrissy has admitted to making mistakes in the past – doing so in front of a huge audience. Her experiences have taught her some valuable lessons, but she reveals that she’s still struggling to learn one thing.
“I have made my mistakes, throughout years and in front of hundreds of thousands, and been held accountable for them. I’ve learned an incredible amount here,” Chrissy tweeted. “God I have said f–ked up s–t and killed myself over it as much as you killed me. But one thing I haven’t learned is how to block out the negativity.”
She also shared how engaging on the platform has changed her.
“My life goal is to make people happy,” Chrissy. “The pain I feel when I don’t is too much for me. I’ve always been portrayed as the strong clap back girl but I’m just not. My desire to be liked and fear of pissing people off has made me somebody you didn’t sign up for, and a different human than I started out here as! Live well, tweeters. Please know all I ever cared about was you!!!”
Chrissy also went on Instagram to open up some more about her Twitter exit, saying it’s “absolutely NOT” Twitter’s fault. Also, it’s not the bullying or the trolls – it’s about her.
“It’s true! The platform no longer serves me as positively as it does negatively, so with that I bid you adieu. But I want to say that this is absolutely NOT twitter’s fault – I believe they do all they can to combat relentless bullying, any honestly, it’s not the bullying!!” she wrote on Instagram. “You guys have no idea how much they’ve reached out and worked with my team and me personally.”
“It’s not the platform,” she continued. “It’s not the “bullying”. And it’s not the trolls. The trolls I can deal with, although it weighs on you. It’s just me.”
“I have to come to terms with the fact some people aren’t gonna like me,” she explained. “I hate letting people down or upsetting people and I feel like I just did it over and over and over. Someone can’t read that they disappointed you in some way every single day, all day without physically absorbing that energy. I can feel it in my bones.”
