Courtney Stodden has some thoughts on Chrissy Teigen‘s revelation about a recent alcohol relapse.
“OK, breaking news. I decided that I’m gonna start drinking alcohol again,” Stodden, 30, said in a Saturday, May 17, Instagram video before doing a cheers with her phone camera and a glass of champagne. “Breaking news!”
She added, “There’s nothing more important in this world than knowing that I am not gonna be sober. I’m having alcohol and I want everyone to know ‘cause it’s really important.”
Stodden confirmed the clip was directed at Teigen, writing, “Breaking news I started drinking again too Chrissy soooo here is my official invite — let’s grab a drink and bury the hatchet mama #iykyk #chrissyteigen @chrissyteigen.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Teigen’s reps for comment.
Earlier this month, Teigen, 39, revealed that she let alcohol “back into my life” after previously going sober. “The truth is, I don’t know what I’m doing. I one hundred percent know I like me better sober. I one hundred percent know I get more done, I absolutely feel better in my body without it,” she shared in a lengthy Instagram statement on Thursday, May 15. “And I am one hundred percent pissed that I can’t be normal and have a cocktail with my husband on vacay without it turning into 8 and feeling like s***.”
Teigen explained that her relationship with sobriety has “changed for the better” and that she knows her relationship with alcohol will “never” be normal. “This is for all the people who are figuring it out,” she concluded her message. “And to the sober community, god I am still so, so proud of you. Until we meet again ????.”
Teigen has been candid about her sobriety journey over the years. “I got used to being in hair and makeup and having a glass of wine. Then that glass of wine would carry over into me having one before the awards show. And then a bunch at the awards show,” she told Cosmopolitan in August 2017. “And then I felt bad for making kind of an ass of myself to people that I really respected. And that feeling, there’s just nothing like that. You feel horrible. It’s not a good look for me, for [my husband] John [Legend], for anybody.”
Teigen also shares a complicated history with Stodden, who had accused her of cyberbullying and telling her to kill herself in May 2021. Teigen apologized shortly after, writing in a since-deleted X post, “Not a lot of people are lucky enough to be 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.”
She added, “I am ashamed and completely embarrassed at my behavior but that is nothing compared to how I made Courtney feel.”
Earlier this year, Stodden revealed she previously contemplated suicide after being cyberbullied as a teenager. “I had a suicide letter written,” she revealed in the ABC News documentary IMPACT x Nightline: Confessions of a Child Bride in March. “I remember my last thought was, ‘You know, maybe I don’t deserve to be here when people that high up are telling me I don’t deserve to be.’”
She went on to address Teigen’s comments. “I know she’s saying that this was from alcohol or whatever she wanted to say it was from: Saying this to a child when you’re the queen of Twitter, it was so much,” Stodden stated. (Us reached out to Teigen’s reps for comment at the time.)
If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357). If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org.
