Chrissy Teigen: i used to be a troll and i'm so sorry

Chrissy Teigen's apology to Courtney Stodden for trolling seemingly became simply the top of the iceberg.

On Monday, Teigen shared a prolonged Medium piece she wrote wherein she talks approximately her "VERY humbling few weeks."

"I recognize i've been quiet, and lord knows you don't want to hear about me, but I want you to recognise i have been sitting in a hollow of deserved global punishment, the closing 'sit here and consider what you have completed,'" Teigen wrote.

"not an afternoon, now not a single moment has passed wherein i haven't felt the crushing weight of remorse for the matters i have said inside the past."

Closing month, Stodden, who identifies as nonbinary, went public with Teigen being cruel to them on social media years in the past after Stodden, then sixteen, married then 50-year-vintage actor Doug Hutchison.

"(Teigen) wouldn't just publicly tweet about looking me to take 'a dust nap' but would privately DM me and tell me to kill myself," Stodden instructed The daily Beast. "things like, 'I cannot wait on the way to die.'"

Teigen apologized to Stodden, who has when you consider that gotten divorced from Hutchison.

Reflecting on it in her Medium piece, Teigen wrote, "As you realize, a group of my old lousy (awful, awful) tweets resurfaced."

"i'm sincerely ashamed of them," Teigen wrote. "As I look at them and recognize the hurt they prompted, I must stop and marvel: How could i've performed that?"

In line with Teigen, there are "extra than only a few" humans she desires to publicly apologize to and she says she's been achieving out to a number of the humans she became imply to privately.

Those people, she wrote, "needed empathy, kindness, expertise and aid, now not my meanness masquerading as a sort of casual, edgy humor."

"i was a troll, complete prevent," Teigen said. "And i am so sorry."

The backlash on social media has been massive and ended in Teigen tweeting an apology can also 12.

Inside the piece published Monday, Teigen wrote, "I want to head a little similarly here, taking into consideration those i have hurt and buddies i've dissatisfied" with what she known as her "snark at some celebrities" that she did thru "jokes, random observations."

"In fact, i was insecure, immature and in a global wherein I idea I needed to impress strangers to be widely wide-spread," Teigen wrote. "If there has been a pop culture pile-on, I took to Twitter to try and gain attention and show off what I at the time believed was a crude, smart, innocent quip. I idea it made me cool and relatable if I poked amusing at celebrities."

Teigen stated her piece became to provide human beings context, now not to painting herself as a sufferer. She's grown since then, she said, married, had kids, gotten therapy and been on the receiving quit of sufficient trolling to recognize the harm she has completed.

"i'm extra expertise of what motivates trolling -- the instantaneous gratification that you get from lashing out and clapping again, throwing rocks at someone you watched is invincible due to the fact they are well-known," she wrote. "also, I realize now how it feels to be on the receiving quit of superb vitriol. Consider me, the irony of this isn't always lost on me."