Chrissy Teigen Draws Blowback After Telling Tale Of Time She Got Fleeced For $13,000 Of Bad Wine
Chrissy Teigen, arguably a bigger celebrity on Twitter than in real life at this point, waded into controversy yesterday after casually flexing her riches in a tale seemingly meant to elicit sympathy.
The whole controversy started out innocuously enough: Teigen jumped into "Prompt Twitter" by asking her followers, "what’s the most expensive thing you’ve eaten that you thought sucked?" She followed with her example: a time a waiter recommended her a $13,000 bottle of wine (without revealing the price) that her and husband John Legend didn't even finish.
Teigen, who has a net worth of $75 million, drew the ire of her followers for her rather unrelatable problems.
While people pointed out how unamused they were by Teigen's $13,000 plight, others joked that the waiter in the story was the true hero.
The jokes and outraged comments of the masses seemed to put Teigen in a sour mood, as she lamented, "hey, not everything I say on my twitter is going to be relatable to you because it is my life and my twitter and my stories. I see your tweets, I get your jokes, you are so funny, yes, you really nailed me."
She later attempted to take up the cross as "rich person people make fun of for a day" in a tweet some noticed bore a striking similarity to a certain Bruce Wayne monologue.
As Harvey Dent once said, "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
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blanisquid
shitflinging and sassolympics are always productive
kymnotarobot
doesn't she have PR… a quick "i'm thinking of posting this story on twitter" would have saved her some headache. I mean she's obviously not clever enough to work that out herself.
Shui
I think people are taking "Eat the rich" a bit too far. At no point during what she said ever indicated that she might have tried to flex her finances.
I understand that class inequality is genuinely a problem, but the reaction here is absurd.
QuasiMadman
I don't think that when hearing about a surprise $13,000 price tag on a bottle of wine that the shock takeaway should be that the individual was wealthy enough to afford it.
The fact that anyone had the gall to put an unmarked price so huge it would bankrupt most of the population on a bottle of fermented grapes… and then not reveal the price until after the purchase.
That should be what people are outraged at.
Ritza
If you cared about your money, you would always ask for the price. That's why stores have price checkers. She didn't because she is used to always being able to pay the bill. People who have lots of disposable money don't look at price tags.
QuasiMadman
Some of these places have this attitude where asking what the price is is some kind of insult or something.
They play stupid little games, the solution would have been don't go to that restaurant in the first place, or you know just walk out the second they start with that bullshit.
But the bottom line is they still tried it on in the first place.
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