Chrissy Teigen briefly quits Twitter after ugly feud with Alison Roman

Chrissy Teigen has quickly backflipped on her social media stance amid a new twist in her public feud with a rival celeb.

Chrissy Teigen has taken a break from Twitter following her public spat with Alison Roman.

“This is what always happens. The first day, a ton of support, then the next, 1 million reasons as to why you deserved this. It never fails,” the 34-year-old Cravings author tweeted, explaining that she was going to “take a break” from the platform.

“I really hate what this drama has caused this week.”

A short time later, Roman tweeted a lengthy apology to Teigen for her “stupid, careless and insensitive” remarks.

I’ve thought a lot this weekend about my interview and the things I said. I know this is a lengthy note (succinctness has never been my strong suit). I appreciate you taking the time to read. pic.twitter.com/3iGAyN3c9d

— alison roman (@alisoneroman) May 11, 2020

“My inability to appreciate my own success without comparing myself to and knocking down others - in this case two accomplished women - is something I recognise I most definitely struggle with, and am working to fix,” the well-known columnist wrote.

“I don’t want to be a person like that.”

Teigen responded by breaking her short-lived Twitter hiatus, thanking Roman, and adding: “To be clear, it never once crossed my mind for you to apologise for what you genuinely thought! The comments stung, but they moreso stung because they came from you!”

The initial war of words erupted last week when Roman delivered some choice words about Teigen’s trajectory in the food world.

Teigen said that following the initial support from social media users during the foodie feud, many went on to blast her with false rumours.

Teigen described Roman’s comments as a ‘huge bummer’.

“Calling my kids petri dish babies or making up flight manifests with my name on them to ‘Epstein island’, to justify someone else’s disdain with me seems gross to me so I’m gonna take a little break,” she wrote in the post before making her Twitter account private.

Roman, a food columnist for The New York Times, stirred the pot when she unintentionally criticised Teigen’s entry into the industry.

“What Chrissy Teigen has done is so crazy to me,” Roman told the New Consumer in an interview last Thursday.

“She had a successful cookbook. And then it was like: Boom, line at Target. Boom, now she has an Instagram page that has over a million followers where it’s just, like, people running a content farm for her. That horrifies me and it’s not something that I ever want to do. I don’t aspire to that.”

The former model is a successful food author.

Teigen retorted with a tweet storm on how disappointed she was to learn that someone she had admired would put her down so much.

“This is a huge bummer and hit me hard. I have made her recipes for years now, bought the cookbooks, supported her on social, and praised her in interviews,” she tweeted along with a link to Page Six’s reporting.

“We do this work ourselves, and there is no monetary gain yet. It is just work, work, work and the reward is you liking it. So to be called a sellout … hooooo it hurts,” she said.

Roman later made a public apology to the model, admitting that she regretted her comments. “Hi @chrissyteigen! I sent an email but also wanted to say here that I’m genuinely sorry I caused you pain with what I said,” Roman tweeted on Friday.

“I shouldn’t have used you/your business (or Marie’s!) as an example to show what I wanted for my own career – it was flippant, careless and I’m so sorry.

“Being a woman who takes down other women is absolutely not my thing and don’t think it’s yours, either (I obviously failed to effectively communicate that). I hope we can meet one day, I think we’d probably get along.”

This article originally appeared in the NY Post and was reproduced with permission