Alison Roman Officially Apologizes to Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo

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Food-writer Alison Roman issued a detailed second apology (her first was a really half-assed apology) on Monday, May 11, 2020, to Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo after dissing their empires a few days prior.

โ€œI used their names disparagingly to try and distinguish myself, which I absolutely do not have an excuse for,โ€ Roman wrote in a statement shared to Twitter on Monday. โ€œIt was stupid, careless and insensitive.โ€

โ€œI need to learn, and respect, the difference between being unfiltered and honest vs. being uneducated and flippant,โ€ she continued. โ€œThe burden is not on them (or anyone else) to teach me, and Iโ€™m deeply sorry that my learning came at Chrissy and Marieโ€™s expense.โ€

Roman also noted that she was embarrassed that she couldnโ€™t express herself without tearing others down. โ€œMy comments were rooted in my own insecurity,โ€ she added. โ€œMy inability to appreciate my own success without comparing myself to and knocking down othersโ€”in this case two accomplished womenโ€”is something I recognize I most definitely struggle with, and am working to fix.โ€

In an interview with New Consumer, republished Thursday, Roman criticized Kondoโ€™s homeware range and called the lifestyle guru a sell-out. โ€œIโ€™m like, damn, bitch, you fucking just sold out immediately!โ€ she said, before then announcing that she was โ€œhorrifiedโ€ by Teigenโ€™s cookware range and Instagram account.

โ€œLike, what Chrissy Teigen has done is so crazy to me. She had a successful cookbook,โ€ Roman said. โ€œAnd then it was like: Boom, line at Target. Boom, now she has an Instagram page that has over a million followers where itโ€™s just, like, people running a content farm for her.โ€

Teigen responded to Roman on Twitter, saying the criticism hit her hard and she hasnโ€™t ever โ€œbeen so bummed out by the words of a fellow food-lover.โ€ โ€œI have made her recipes for years now, bought the cookbooks, supported her on social [media] and praised her in interviews,โ€ Teigen added. โ€œI even signed on to executive produce the very show she talks about doing in this article.โ€

Teigen, on Monday night, tweeted an acceptance of the apology.

โ€œThe comments stung, but they moreso stung because they came from u!โ€ Teigen wrote. โ€œIt wasnโ€™t my usual news break of some random person hating everything about me!โ€

Teigen then discussed her own journey of coming to terms with not always being able to say what she wants now that sheโ€™s in the public eye. โ€œI still think some of those things. I just maybe donโ€™t unleash on my peers on super public platforms lol,โ€ she wrote.