Courtney Stodden is defending Chrissy Teigen years after their public feud.
“I’ve been getting lots of people asking me how I really feel about Meghan Markle having Chrissy Teigen on [With] Love Meghan, her new cooking present,” Stodden, 30, shared in an Instagram video on Friday, August 15. “I don’t consider folks ought to be bullying Chrissy.”
She continued, “Have we discovered something? Two wrongs don’t make a proper.”
Stodden claimed that this wasn’t the primary time she addressed this, alluding to a previous Instagram Story, which Teigen, 39, allegedly watched.
“I resolve[d] to succeed in out to Chrissy on DM and inform her that I’m right here if she ever desires to speak and I don’t consider folks ought to be bullying her and she or he shouldn’t be listening to anybody who’s bullying her,” Stodden stated. “She has utterly ignored me.”
Stodden captioned the clip with an inspirational message to followers.
“As soon as upon a time, I used to be the punchline. Folks advised me to finish my life. I used to be referred to as names, mocked, bullied — not simply by strangers, however by folks with platforms,” she wrote. “And but … I’m nonetheless right here. Alive. Thriving. Laughing. Right here’s my message: by no means let another person’s cruelty outline you. Put on your scars like a crown. Your ache will be your superpower.”
Stodden and Teigen have an extended historical past of drama within the public eye. In 2011, Teigen made a number of feedback about Stodden’s marriage to ex-husband Doug Hutchison. (Stodden was 16 on the time, whereas Hutchison was 51.)
“She wouldn’t simply publicly tweet about wanting me to take ‘a dust nap’ however would privately DM me and inform me to kill myself. Issues like, ‘I can’t wait so that you can die,’” Stodden claimed throughout a Could 2021 interview with The Each day Beast. “Among the worst remedy I received was from ladies, and we’re not going to get wherever if we maintain holding one another again.”
After the DMs went public, Teigen issued an apology, stating she was “ashamed and utterly embarrassed” in regards to the messages she despatched to Stodden.
“Not lots of people who’re fortunate sufficient to be held accountable for all their previous bulls*** in entrance of all the world,” she shared in a press release by way of X in Could 2021. “I’m mortified and unhappy at who I was. I used to be an insecure, consideration searching for troll.”
Teigen concluded with a word to Stodden, who ultimately forgave Teigen for the feedback.
“I’m so sorry, Courtney,” she stated. “I hope you may heal now figuring out how deeply sorry I’m.”