Chrissy Teigen's Twitter trolling of Courtney Stodden results in her cookware line being pulled from stores

Chrissy Teigen’s food empire got a little bit smaller over the weekend after the Cravings cookbook author had her cookware line pulled off the (virtual) shelves of major retailers including Macy’s. The store, whose PR team has yet to make a public statement, appears to have removed Teigen’s kitchen products from their website following the news that the model once bullied Courtney Stodden on Twitter.

In 2011, when Stodden was 16 years old, she married Doug Hutchinson, a 51-year-old acting teacher who met her when she signed up for one of his classes. The two went on to appear in several reality TV series before separating. Their divorce was finalized in 2020. Because of the age difference plus the fact that Stodden was a minor when she married Hutchinson, the pair drew quite a bit of media and public attention — including the attention of Teigen, who, says Stodden, bullied her online.

“She wouldn’t just publicly tweet about wanting me to take ‘a dirt nap’ but would privately DM me and tell me to kill myself,” Stodden told The Daily Beast. “Things like, ‘I can’t wait for you to die.’”

Following the Stodden interview, Teigen penned a lengthy apology which she published at the scene of the crime: on Twitter. “Not a lot of people are lucky enough to be held accountable for all their past bulls–t in front of the entire world,” she wrote. “I’m mortified and sad at who I used to be. I was an insecure, attention-seeking troll. I am ashamed and completely embarrassed at my behavior but that…is nothing compared to how I made Courtney feel.”

Teigen revealed that she’d reached out to Stodden privately to apologize as well, adding “but since I publicly fueled all this, I want to also publicly apologize. I’m so sorry, Courtney. I hope you can heal now knowing how deeply sorry I am.”

The model and kitchen guru also included an apology to her fans, who she felt she’d disappointed: “I am so sorry I let you guys down,” she tweeted. “I will forever work on being better than I was 10 years ago, 1 year ago, 6 months ago.”

Stodden, who’s more of an Instagram gal, wrote that she accepted Teigen’s apology — with a few caveats. “I accept her apology and forgive her,” she wrote. “But the truth remains the same, I have never heard from her or her camp in private. In fact, she blocked me on Twitter. All of me wants to believe this is a sincere apology, but it feels like a public attempt to save her partnerships with Target and other brands who are realizing her ‘wokeness’ is a broken record.”

As Stodden points out, Teigen’s cookware is also off the shelves at Target, but PageSix reports that the decision to stop selling the line came ahead of the news about Stodden breaking. In response to the sudden scarcity of Teigen-branded pots and pans, one private seller on Walmart.com is taking advantage of the situation, selling three sets priced at over $1,000 each. The cookware typically retailed for around $200 per set. 

BEFORE YOU GO: Chrissy Teigen apologizes to Courtney Stodden

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