Chrissy Teigen announces she's quitting Twitter
- In a series of tweets Wednesday night, supermodel Chrissy Teigen announced she was quitting Twitter.
- "It's time for me to say goodbye. This no longer serves me as positively as it serves me negatively," she wrote.
- Teigen amassed more than 13.7 million followers over the years and had frequently been the target of online harassment campaigns.
The day has finally come: Supermodel, chef, and wife to John Legend Chrissy Teigen says she's quitting Twitter, forever.
In a series of - what else? - tweets on Wednesday night, Teigen wrote: "It's time for me to say goodbye."
Teigen said she felt that her relationship with Twitter had negatively changed her.
"My desire to be liked and fear of pissing people off has made me somebody you didn't sign up for, and a different human than I started out here as! Live well, tweeters. Please know all I ever cared about was you!!!" she wrote.
Teigen is no stranger to online harassment.
Last year, after sharing the news of her miscarriage on Instagram, she became the target of harassment from QAnon supporters. She was also the target of an online campaign erroneously accusing her of being a part of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's pedophile ring.
Teigen has left Twitter in the past. In 2014, she quit the social media platform after receiving death threats and attacks for a since-deleted comment she made about the proliferation of gun violence in the US.
At the time, she tweeted, "I feel sick. Bye Twitter. Taking my talents to Instagram."
In her most recent goodbye note, she encouraged people to be aware of the impact of their words.
"I have made my mistakes, throughout years and in front of hundreds of thousands, and been held accountable for them. I've learned an incredible amount here," she continued. "God I have said f------ up s--- and killed myself over it as much as you killed me. But one thing I haven't learned is how to block out the negativity," she said. "I encourage you to know and never forget that your words matter. No matter what you see, what that person portrays, or your intention. For years I have taken so many small, 2-follower count punches that at this point, I am honestly deeply bruised," she added.Following the message, Teigen deleted her account: