{"id":289610,"date":"2020-03-18T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1132044"},"modified":"2020-03-18T06:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T12:18:00","slug":"chrissy-teigen-defends-vanessa-hudgens-after-insensitive-coronavirus-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/chrissy-teigen-defends-vanessa-hudgens-after-insensitive-coronavirus-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrissy Teigen Defends Vanessa Hudgens After &#8220;Insensitive&#8221; Coronavirus Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"45.302540415704\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"33.976905311778\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/chrissy_teigen\">Chrissy Teigen<\/a><\/strong> is standing by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/vanessa_hudgens\">Vanessa Hudgens<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After the <em>High School Musical<\/em> alumna <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1131809\/vanessa-hudgens-responds-to-backlash-over-insensitive-coronavirus-comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">came under fire for her coronavirus comments<\/a>, the cookbook author took to Twitter to defend her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes people, especially famous people, are gonna say really stupid s&#8211;t. &amp; so are you,&#8221; she tweeted on Tuesday. &#8220;And they, and u, will learn from it &amp; hopefully their history says they&#8217;re good. It&#8217;s Ok. And at the same time, wow they really had a dumb f&#8211;kin moment. But u don&#8217;t have [to] ruin their lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While she noted &#8220;this isn&#8217;t about me this time,&#8221; she claimed &#8220;it will be one day, or it&#8217;ll be you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But yeah today it&#8217;s Vanessa lol,&#8221; she tweeted, later adding, &#8220;and no, life is rarely ruined for anyone. But you are damn well trying your best. Just stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One follower claimed &#8220;people should [be] more careful&#8221; and &#8220;think about the impact their words can have.&#8221; The&nbsp;follower then noted it&#8217;s &#8220;easy to claim words are out of context when backlash is received&#8221; and wondered if Hudgens would have apologized had she not received such public criticism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Totally!&#8221; Teigen tweeted in response. &#8220;But we all have stupid moments and some people (like me) have a lot of passion and things don&#8217;t come out the way we mean it. I honestly have gotten so much better at taking time and thinking before I write\/speak though.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>She then acknowledged Hudgens &#8220;said something really dumb&#8221; and that &#8220;it sucks and she for sure feels terrible.&#8221; However, she said &#8220;the knives gotta go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m getting a lot of &#8216;but Chrissy!!!'&#8221; she continued. &#8220;No! No but! Stop stabbing!! Be better, this is a weird, weird world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"52.04347826087\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.3913043478261\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">this isn\u2019t about me this time. but it will be one day, or it\u2019ll be you. but yeah today it\u2019s Vanessa lol<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrissyteigen\/status\/1240123787993133058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"71\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>While Teigen agreed with a follower that the remarks were &#8220;really insensitive,&#8221; she also suggested Hudgens will learn from this experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Definitely agree it was,&#8221; the <em>Lip Sync Battle<\/em> host wrote via the social network. &#8220;But we have all said insensitive s&#8211;t. Or maybe I&#8217;m just the only other one? But I promise promise promise I learned and she is learning now and that&#8217;s all you can ask for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She then added, &#8220;&#8216;Apologize the way you want me to&#8217; is not it. Just personally, in your heart and remote, cancel them if you&#8217;re truly mad. Writing them over and over, the onslaught, it can drive a sane person insane and an unstable person to\u2026worse.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Teigen explained &#8220;kids and online torture&#8221; have made her a &#8220;much more empathetic person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;May you never be on the end of everyone hating you,&#8221; she continued.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She then informed her followers they&#8217;re &#8220;not gonna talk me into not forgiving people&#8217;s mistakes.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It makes me clear and makes me happy and I&#8217;m gonna be happy,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;You wanna be angry online all f&#8211;kin day, go for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-5-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31.5\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"33\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020218\/rs_1024x759-200318045331-1024-chrissy-teigen-vanessa-hudgens-split-ch-031820.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Chrissy Teigen, Vanessa Hudgens\" alt=\"Chrissy Teigen, Vanessa Hudgens\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Jason LaVeris for Getty Images, Bruce Glikas for WireImage <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"47.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"35\">\n<p>Hudgens made the coronavirus comments during a recent Instagram Live chat with fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;&#8217;Till July sounds like a bunch of bulls&#8211;t. I&#8217;m sorry, but like it&#8217;s a virus,&#8221; she said at the time. &#8220;I get it. I respect it. But at the same time, even if everybody gets it, like, yeah, people are gonna die, which is terrible but inevitable. I don&#8217;t know. Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t be doing this right now.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the backlash, the actress took to the social network again to respond to the criticism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I realized today that some of my comments are being taken out of context,&#8221; the 31-year-old celebrity said. &#8220;Um, It&#8217;s a crazy time. It&#8217;s a crazy, crazy time. And I am at home in lockdown and that&#8217;s what I hope you guys are doing, too. In full quarantine and staying safe and sane. I don&#8217;t take this situation lightly by any means.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also issued an apology via Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey guys. I&#8217;m so sorry for the way I have offended anyone and everyone who has seen the clip from my Instagram Live yesterday,&#8221; Hudgens wrote in a shared note. &#8220;I realize my words were insensitive and not at all appropriate for the situation our country and the world are in right now. This has been a huge [wakeup] call about the significance my words have, now more than ever. I&#8217;m sending safe wishes to everyone to stay safe and healthy during this crazy time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1132044\/chrissy-teigen-defends-vanessa-hudgens-after-insensitive-coronavirus-comments?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrissy Teigen is standing by Vanessa Hudgens. After the High School Musical alumna came under fire for her coronavirus comments, the cookbook author took to Twitter to defend her. &#8220;Sometimes people, especially famous people, are gonna say really stupid s&#8211;t. &amp; so are you,&#8221; she tweeted on Tuesday. &#8220;And they, and u, will learn from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-26 15:22:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}