Following Chrissy Teign and Alison Roman’s brief feud, Alison’s food column on The New York Times has been put on “temporary leave.” – The New York Times has confirmed the hiatus, but did not comment further.
And Chrissy is sharing her thoughts on that development.
A fan on Twitter asked where things stand between the two, and Chrissy replied, “I hope we can laugh about it one day but I’m not happy with the NYT leave so she def can’t laugh about it yet. It just sucks in every way.”
“I very publicly forgave Alison and that was real. When I said I don’t believe in being cancelled for your honest opinion, that was very real,” she added, responding to another Twitter user. “I don’t agree with what the NYT has done, I am not them. I didn’t call them, I didn’t write, and most of all, I’d like her back.”
Chrissy wrote in another tweet, “I don’t like this one bit. I’m doing what I can (off Twitter) to make that known.”
Last week, Chrissy and Alison were involved in some social media drama – the Cravings author shared that some of the comments Alison made in an interview with The New Consumer was a “bummer.”
“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.”
Alison has since publicly apologized for her comments and Chrissy has also (publicly) accepted her apology.
In other news…
Kendall Jenner has agreed to pay $90,000 to settle the lawsuit stemming from her involvement in the 2017 Fyre Festival.
The model and reality star was sued in August of 2019, along with other celebrities like Emily Ratajkowski, Migos, Pusha T, Blink-182 and Lil Yachty, as investors sought to recover the money paid to talent agencies, performers, vendors and other entities involved in the scandal-plagued failed music festival.
The lawsuit claims that Kendall got paid $275,000 in a since-deleted post about the festival on Instagram to help make people believe that it “would be filled with famous models on an exotic private island with ‘first-class culinary experiences and a luxury atmosphere.'” She allegedly did not indicate that it was a paid post and also allegedly led people to believe that her brother-in-law Kanye West would be performing at the event.
According to court documents, Kendall has denied any liability to the lawsuit. The documents were submitted on Tuesday (May 19), but still requires a judge’s approval.
The failed festival has since spawned two documentaries. The festival’s founder, Billy McFarland, pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges in March 2018 and was sentenced to six years in prison. He has also been ordered to pay back the $26 million he raised for the event.
