Amid Chrissy Teigen’s apology and exit from Netflix’s “Never Have I Ever” and her Safely brand due to resurfaced tweets, her husband John Legend has come to her defense on Twitter, writing that a publicized direct message exchange between Teigen and fashion designer Michael Costello is “completely fake.”
On June 14, fashion designer and “Project Runway” alum Costello posted screenshots of an alleged conversation between Teigen and himself from 2014, in which Teigen accused him of being a racist due to a “photoshopped comment.”
In the now-deleted screenshots, Teigen is shown as writing to Costello, “Racist people like you deserve to suffer and die. You might as well be dead. Your career is over, just watch.”
However, a report from Insider points out that these DMs may not have been real. For one, there is no verified checkmark next to Teigen’s name. Instagram introduced verification in 2014, and Teigen was verified in early 2015, meaning these screenshots were purportedly taken in 2014.
But the blue and purple message design was not implemented until 2020, and the video chat icon at the top of the screen was not introduced until June 2018, according to the report, which a representative for Teigen corroborated. A representative for Costello did not immediately respond to Variety’s request for comment.
“Chrissy apologized for her public tweets, but after her apology, Mr Costello fabricated a DM exchange between them,” Legend wrote on Twitter. “This exchange was made up, completely fake, never happened.”
Legend continued, “I encourage everyone who breathlessly spread this lie to keep that same energy when they correct the record.”
On Friday, it was announced that Teigen would be “stepping away” from Safely, the cleaning brand she developed with Kris Jenner. An Instagram story posted to the brand’s account reads: “Chrissy will be stepping away from Safely to take much needed time to focus on herself and be with her family. We fully support her decision and are thankful for her contributions. The brand will continue to move forward and focus on our important mission of bringing high quality, hard-working cleaning products to all American households.”
Earlier this week, Teigen penned a lengthy apology regarding previous tweets targeted at model and reality TV personality Courtney Stodden.
“Not a day, not a single moment has passed where I haven’t felt the crushing weight of regret for the things I’ve said in the past,” she wrote in a Medium post on Monday. “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?”
The post continues, “I’ve apologized publicly to one person, but there are others -- and more than just a few -- who I need to say I’m sorry to. I’m in the process of privately reaching out to the people I insulted.”
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