Chrissy Teigen Leaves Twitter After Getting Death Threats Over Controversial Tweet

Supermodel Chrissy Teigen is leaving Twitter.

“I feel sick. Bye Twitter. Taking my talents to Instagram,” Teigen wrote on Thursday, after receiving death threats on the social media service.

The Sports Illustrated model Tweeted about the deadly shooting in Ottawa, Canada on Wednesday, and received backlash over her controversial comments.

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“active shooting in Canada, or as we call it in america, Wednesday,” she wrote on the social networking site on Wednesday, adding, “That’s not a joke. It is a fact.”

Her Tweets received criticism as well as abusive comments, and the model responded by writing, “Sorry you don’t understand that is a knock at america and our issues with gun control. No one is minimizing the Ottawa shooting.”

“I’m not apologizing. If you take it wrong, that is your fault,” she added.

Teigen went on to post screengrabs of some of the threatening Tweets she received in her timeline and commented, “my timeline is a nice mix of toast talk and death threats.”

Eventually though, the model decided she had had enough and signed off mid-morning on Thursday.

On Wednesday, a gunman in Ottawa killed a corporal ahead of entering the Parliament building in the Canadian capital, before the gunman himself was killed, according to the NY Times.

— Jolie Lash