Chrissy Teigen has accepted Alison Roman’s apology.
Millions of fans got a front row seat to Twitter drama over the weekend, when food writer and cookbook author Alison Roman made some comments about Chrissy Teigen’s Cravings business empire.
“She had a successful cookbook. And then it was like: Boom, line at Target. Boom, now she has an Instagram page that has over a million followers where it’s just, like, people running a content farm for her,” Alison said in a recent interview with The New Consumer. “That horrifies me and it’s not something that I ever want to do. I don’t aspire to that. But like, who’s laughing now? Because she’s making a ton of f–king money.”
Chrissy opened up about how the comments hurt, especially since she deep respect for Alison.
“This is a huge bummer and hit me hard,” the Cravings author explained. “I have made her recipes for years now, bought the cookbooks, supported her on social and praised her in interviews. I even signed on to executive produce the very show she talks about doing in this article.”
“I started Cravings because I wanted something for myself,” she added in a series of follow-up tweets. “I wanted something John didn’t buy, I wanted something to do that calmed me, made me happy and made others happy, too. Cravings isn’t a ‘machine’ or ‘farmed content’ – it’s me and 2 other women. I didn’t ‘sell out’ by making my dreams come true. To have a cookware line, to get to be a part of that process start to finish, to see something go from sketch to in my hands, I love that.”
“I genuinely loved everything about Alison,” Chrissy later wrote. “Was jealous she got to have a book with food on the cover instead of a face!! I’ve made countless NYT recipes she’s created, posting along the way. I don’t think I’ve ever been so bummed out by the words of a fellow food-lover. I just had no idea I was perceived that way, by her especially. And Marie [Kondo], too. Marie is awesome.”
But while many initially showed their support for Chrissy, the social media drama took an unexpected turn over the weekend, which ended up with Chrissy making her Twitter account private.
“This is what always happens. The first day, a ton of support, then the next, 1 million reasons as to why you deserved this. It never fails,” Chrissy tweeted at the time.
Alison has since publicly apologized to Chrissy on the social media platform.
“Hi @chrissyteigen!” Alison’s wrote. “I sent an email but also wanted to say here that I’m genuinely sorry I caused you pain with what I said. I shouldn’t have used you /your business (or Marie’s! [Kondo]) as an example to show what I wanted for my own career- it was flippant, careless and I’m so sorry.”
“Being a woman who takes down other women is absolutely not my thing and don’t think it’s yours, either (I obviously failed to effectively communicate that). I hope we can meet one day, I think we’d probably get along,” she continued.
And Chrissy ended her Twitter break to respond to the apology.
“Thank u for this, @alisoneroman,” Chrissy began her series of tweets. “To be clear, it never once crossed my mind for u to apologize for what you genuinely thought! The comments stung, but they more so stung because they came from u! It wasn’t my usual news break of some random person hating everything about me!”
“I don’t agree with the pile-on, ppl waiting with bated breath for apologies, deciding if that apology is good, the ppl who say u were right & never needed to in the first place,” she continued. “There are so many different types in this kind of situation & tbh, I just want it to be over.”
She also shared her thoughts on the similarity of their situation.
“I think we are alike in so many ways. I remember the exact time I realized I wasn’t allowed to say whatever popped in my head-that I couldn’t just say things in the way that so many of my friends were saying. Before, I never really knew where I stood in the industry, in the world,” she wrote.
“Eventually, I realized that once the relatable ‘snarky girl who didn’t care’ became a pretty successful cookbook author and had more power in the industry, I couldn’t just say whatever the fuck I wanted. The more we grow, the more we get those wakeup calls,” Chrissy continued.
“I still think you are incredibly talented. And in an industry that doesn’t really lend itself to supporting more than a handful of people at a time, I feel like all we have are each other!” she later tweeted, adding, “And honestly, for the past few days, every time I saw a shallot I wanted to cry, but I do appreciate this and hopefully we can all be better and learn from the dumb s–t we have all said and done.”
