As the Chrissy Teigen saga continues to unravel itself, yet another corridor of the labrynth reveals itself.

Now, Teigen’s husband, John Legend has taken to Twitter to make a very bold claim, that Michael Costello, fashion designer and former Project Runway contestant produced and shared”fabricated DMs”.

Legend tweeted, “Chrissy apologized for her public tweets, but after her apology, Mr Costello fabricated a DM exchange between them.”

He continued, “This exchange was made up, completely fake, never happened.”

But not only is his bold claim pretty shocking, as reported by Billboard, he also linked to a Business Insider story, where a member of Teigen’s team were able to confirm that the Instagram DM was actually fake, aka fabricated.

Last week The Project hosts Waleed Aly and guest panellist Rachel Corbett found themselves in a bit of a debate over the Chrissy Teigen online bullying scandal, with their opinions divided on who or what was to blame.

Corbett, fully blamed Teigen for her trolling, saying, “I don’t believe in cancel culture. I don’t think we should cancel people for their bad behaviour because it doesn’t give any encouragement to learn, grow, change, whatever.”

“But I can fundamentally say as a person, you make mistakes in the past but making death threats. That’s something above and beyond. Can you really change from the person who used to do that at one point? Do you change that much as a person?”

On the other side of the coin, Aly is blaming social media platforms which allow users to make bullying comments to others.

Aly said, “Let’s be honest, the line between death threats and bullying is shrinking and becoming fuzzier as a result of social media. That’s what the platform is. (Chrissy) was joining pile-ons.”

In response, Corbett replied saying that, “You can’t say it’s a fault of the platform,” and that social media doesn’t “absolve her of personal responsibility”.

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