There’s been a back and forth going on between Chrissy Teigen and Michael Costello.
So while he conjures those up , here.” The model — who wrote she’d consider legal action in an “actual court of law” if he took his painful accusations any further — also shared her own Instagram DM screenshots, which appeared to show Costello having sent her friendly, complimentary messages as recently as April 2020.
Teigen’s team further pointed to such errors in the images as Teigen’s handle being misspelled, an incorrect profile photo, and the inclusion of features and design elements that weren’t part of the social media platform at the time.
This exchange was made up, completely fake, never happened,” the EGOT winner tweeted in his wife’s defense the same day.
“The fact that Chrissy Teigen’s team is desperately trying to prove the DMs are fake and attempting to discredit Michael Costello, a victim of trauma and bullying by Chrissy Teigen both online and offline, confirms that she remains the same bully, despite her public apology,” a rep said.
Meanwhile, Costello personally responded in a since-deleted June 18 Instagram post accusing Teigen of being “the same bully she always has been, despite her fake apology to the public.” The fashion designer, who added he’d soon be taking a social media break, further claimed to have “receipts of emails and confirmations” to prove that Teigen went out of her way to harm his career.
The public feud follows reality TV star Courtney Stodden, who uses they/them pronouns, accusing Teigen of tweeting hateful messages to them, including ones that urged them to commit suicide, in a May 10 Daily Beast interview.