Candace Owens Trending on Twitter After Taking Credit for Campaign to Cancel Chrissy Teigen

Marisa SarnoffMay 20th, 2021, 1:16 pm
 
Candace Owens hosts "Candace"

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Conservative firebrand Candace Owens was trending on Twitter Thursday, after posting an op-ed to the hyper-conservative Daily Wire website with the title Why I Launched The Campaign Against Chrissy Teigen.

After giving her take on the documentary Framing Britney Spears (“Why didn’t someone speak out and decry the evil of trying to break the spirit of a young girl[?]”), Owens turned to the topic of Teigen, whose recently resurfaced tweets and messages to Courtney Stodden revealed that Teigen bullied Stodden and encouraged the then-teenager to commit suicide.

“If you’ve been following me on social media over the last week, you’ve seen that I’ve led a campaign for people to examine the long history of abuse that Teigen has directed at young women,” Owens wrote. “We’re not talking about mean tweets – we’re talking about Teigen harassing teen girls and even encouraging suicide.”

Teigen’s tweets and messages to Stodden included encouraging them to take a “dirt nap” and to “go. to. sleep. forever.”

Stodden first made headlines in 2011 after marrying then 50-year-old actor Doug Hutchison at the age of 16.

Owens said that in addition to harassing Stodden, Teigen also targeted actress Lindsay Lohan and former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

“Chrissy also did this to Lindsay Lohan, mocking her after Lohan attempted to slit her own wrists. Teigen said the troubled actress likely ‘adds a few more slits to her wrists’ every time she sees Emma Stone, another A-list red-headed actress,” Owens wrote. “Teigen also said she wished Sarah Palin would ‘shoot herself in the face.'”

Teigen, who is married to musician John Legend and whose on-again Twitter presence is both widely loved and widely reviled, was an outspoken critic of Donald Trump, while Owens continues to be a superfan of the former president.

Teigen has apologized for the tweets, while Owens’ campaign has continued. When reports revealed that retailers Macy’s and Target had pulled Teigen’s cookware line from their websites and that Bloomingdale’s backed off of a likely contract with Teigen, Owens took multiple victory laps.

(Owens, who may also have been trending for writing in a tweet that “Announcing that your pronouns are they/them is just poor grammar,” did not acknowledge in her op-ed that Stodden identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.)

As the Daily Beast’s Marlow Stern pointed out on Twitter, Owens herself doesn’t have the greatest track record when it comes to being empathetic toward people considering suicide.


“Candace Owens claims she’s going after Chrissy Teigen because she cares deeply about suicide … when she opening mocked Meghan Markle for having suicidal ideations and Kurt Cobain for taking his life,” Stern wrote.

Meanwhile, Owens is using her anti-Teigen campaign to offer a subscription discount to the Daily Wire. The discount code? “CHRISSY,” of course.

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