Upset Teigen deletes her Twitter account
Chrissy Teigen, the unofficial queen of Twitter, announced Wednesday she was quitting the social media platform, revealing that she’s more painfully sensitive than people realize and saying she had found it increasingly difficult to block out “the negativity.”
“My goal in life is to make people happy,” Teigen said in a series of tweets posted Wednesday evening, Entertainment Weekly and other outlets reported. “The pain I feel when I don’t is too much for me.”
“I’m a sensitive (expletive), OK?” Teigen also said to her 13.7 million followers. “I don’t want to be this way. I just am. But I love you guys and cherish our time together, I truly do. I also hate you.”
On Thursday, she wrote on Instagram that neither the “bullying” nor the “trolls” had driven her from the platform.
Twitter also had done all it could to help her team deal with the bullying, she added. “The trolls I can deal with, although it weighs on you,” she said, again explaining that it had become hard for her to feel “every day” like she had “disappointed people” or that she was “letting people down.”
In her Twitter and Instagram
messages, the model and cookbook author didn’t say whether criticism over any particular issue had become “too much.” But on Wednesday, she called some of her Twitter commenters “truly just f—ing mean.”
She was reacting to particularly harsh criticism she received after announcing Tuesday that she and good friend Kris Jenner had partnered to create a new line of plant-based cleaning products in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Years in the making — excited to finally announce the launch of @GETSAFELY,” Teigen wrote Tuesday, alongside a photo of her and Jenner surrounded by the products. “Plant based with aromatherapy oils annnnnd it works. Could cry. Cannot wait to see this in your homes. (Really!!!)”
While many fans were excited about the partnership, others immediately took to Twitter to tell Teigen they wouldn’t support any product connected to the Kardashian-Jenners, BuzzFeed News reported. They called members of the reality TV family crass, money-grubbing and inauthentic and accused a supposedly more “authentic” Teigen of trying to profit off the pandemic and cash in while many people are unemployed and struggling financially.