'I was a troll, full stop, I'm so sorry': Chrissy Teigen apologises for her 'past horrible tweets'

Singer John Legend’s wife and American TV personality, Chrissy Teigen has penned a remorseful note apologised for her ‘past horrible tweets’ and trolling people on social media. Chrissy took to Medium and said not a single moment has passed when she didn’t feel the ‘crushing weight of regret for the things’ she said the past.

Chrissy also said that it was fun when she started using social media, and thought that it made her ‘cool and relatable if I poked fun at celebrities’. She says that there’s no excuse for what she did and she is ‘no longer the person who wrote those horrible things’.

In her apology, Chrissy wrote, “As you know, a bunch of my old awful (awful, awful) tweets resurfaced. I’m truly ashamed of them. As I look at them and understand the hurt they caused, I have to stop and wonder: How could I have done that?.”

She further said, “As you know, a bunch of my old awful (awful, awful) tweets resurfaced. I’m truly ashamed of them. As I look at them and understand the hurt they caused, I have to stop and wonder: How could I have done that?

Calling herself a troll, the mother of two said, “There is simply no excuse for my past horrible tweets. My targets didn’t deserve them. No one does. Many of them needed empathy, kindness, understanding and support, not my meanness masquerading as a kind of casual, edgy humor. I was a troll, full stop. And I am so sorry.”

“When I first started using social media, I had so much fun with it. I made jokes, random observations,” Chrissy said, adding, “In reality, I was insecure, immature and in a world where I thought I needed to impress strangers to be accepted. If there was a pop culture pile-on, I took to Twitter to try to gain attention and show off what I at the time believed was a crude, clever, harmless quip. I thought it made me cool and relatable if I poked fun at celebrities.

Chrissy added that when confronted with things she said in the past, it makes her ‘cringe to my core. “I’ll honestly get sharp, stabbing pains in my body, randomly remembering my a****** past, and I deserve it. Words have consequences and there are real people behind the Twitter handles I went after. I wasn’t just attacking some random avatar, but hurting young women — some who were still girls — who had feelings. How could I not stop and think of that?” She said.

The model said that life has made her empathetic and and has grown up as a person. She states, “The truth is, I’m no longer the person who wrote those horrible things. I grew up, got therapy, got married, had kids, got more therapy, experienced loss and pain, got more therapy and experienced more life. AND GOT MORE THERAPY.

“We are all more than our worst moments. I won’t ask for your forgiveness, only your patience and tolerance. I ask that you allow me, as I promise to allow you, to own past mistakes and be given the opportunity to seek self improvement and change,” she concluded in her post.

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Last month, model Courtney Stodden has revealed in an interview with Daily Beast that she was harassed online by Chrissy, a decade ago after she married actor Doug Hutchison when she was 16 and he was 60. Courtney said Chrissy sent them direct messages with mean taunts such as "I can't wait for you to die."

This prompted Chrissy Teigen to issue a public apology to Courtney and earlier in June she exited a guest voice role in the Netflix comedy Never Have I Ever after Stodden’s revelations.