Teigen — an active Twitter user for over a decade who had taken occasional breaks from posting and made her account private last May — emphasized that it was absolutely not the service’s fault that she was leaving. Nor was it the ceaseless bullying or trolling she faced in the form of hundreds and thousands of attacks on her posts that took personal, vicious aim at even her most innocuous musings, that inspired her exit.
“The trolls I can deal with, although it weighs on you,” she said. “It’s just me. I have to come to terms with the fact some people aren’t gonna like me. I hate letting people down or upsetting people and I feel like I just did it over and over and over. Someone can’t read that they disappointed you in some way every single day, all day without physically absorbing that energy. I can feel it in my bones.”
And in classic Teigen style, she ended her kiss-off with a shout out to the followers of the Q Anon conspiracy theory who had apparently decided that she was not living in her Hollywood home with Legend and their children, but was in fact locked up at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, “lol. I saw Q: into the storm and saw what I’m working with here. And I, lol, I no longer care. Don’t flatter yourselves.”
She got plenty of support (as well as the predictable river of hateful applause from detractors) after her announcement, including from Randy Rainbow, who tweeted, “Applauding Chrissy Teigen’s decision to step away. Twitter is a magical land full of opportunities for which I’m grateful, but I know firsthand the very real toll it can take on one’s mental health. I hope this sparks new conversation/perspectives that lead to positive change.”
At press time, it did not appear that Legend had responded to Teigen’s statement.
