Chrissy Teigen has bowed out of a planned voice role in the Netflix comedy Never Have I Ever in the wake of revelations that she once engaged in online bullying against model and reality TV personality Courtney Stodden.
Teigen opted to drop out of a planned voice role in one episode of the upcoming Season Two of the Netflix coming of age comedy from Mindy Kaling. The series features voice-over narration for key characters performed by guest actors.
Never Have I Ever revolves around a first-generation Indian American teenage girl navigating high school while dealing with the loss of her father. A spokesman for the show said the role is expected to be recast.
Teigen issued a public apology on May 12 after Stodden revealed in an interview with Daily Beast that Teigen harassed them online a decade ago after Stodden married actor Doug Hutchison when they were 16 and he was 60. Stodden revealed that Teigen sent them direct messages with cruel taunts such as "I can't wait for you to die".
Teigen apologised to Stodden publicly in a lengthy Twitter post in which Teigen sought to call herself to account.
"Not a lot of people are lucky enough to e held accountable for all their past bulls-- in front of the entire world. I'm mortified and sad at who I used to be. I was an insecure, attention seeking troll," Teigen wrote in a Twitter post. The Lip Sync Battle host has 13.5 million followers on Twitter and 34.9 million followers on Instagram has not sent a tweet since her three-part apology on May 12. Her last Instagram post on May 11 featured a page from one of her cook books. – Reuters
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