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Chrissy Teigen is firing back at designer Michael Costello, following his claims that alleged bullying by Teigen made him suicidal. On Monday, the fashion designer opened up about his interactions with Teigen on Instagram, sharing that he is still “traumatized, depressed and has thoughts of suicide” following Teigen and her stylist, Monica Rose, allegedly trying to ruin his career.

Teigen took to Twitter on Friday with a detailed statement, in which she claimed the DMs and emails that Costello shared as proof of the alleged bullying are fake.

“No idea what the f**k michael costello is doing. He just released a statement where he didn’t at ALL acknowledge how fake the dm’s were, & now claims to have emails that don’t exist. So while he conjures those up (hopefully with someone more talented in fakes this time), here,” Teigen wrote on Twitter, before sharing her official statement on the matter.

“Chrissy is completely surprised and disappointed by Michael Costello’s recent attack, which includes fictional ‘screenshots’ from 2014 of supposed private messages that Chrissy did not send,” the statement reads. “In October 2014, she did post a comment on Mr. Costello’s Instagram when he was publicly accused of making a racist remark. After he denied the accusation, and claimed it was based on a photoshopped comment, Chrissy deleted the comment, as was reported at the time.”

The statement went on to say that Teigen thought her relationship with Costello was “cordial,” before referencing several online interactions they had over the years.

“Chrissy has acknowledged her past behavior and the pain she has caused, but she will not stand for anyone spreading false accusations to further demean her name and reputation,” the statement continued. “Chrissy will continue to do the work she needs to do to be the best person she can be. She hopes Michael Costello can do the same.”

The statement also details alleged technical inconsistencies in Costello’s screenshots, related to Teigen’s Instagram profile pictures and the dates of various features on the photo app, which the statement claims show that the DMs were “clearly manipulated.”

Teigen then shared a separate tweet with screenshots of the DMs between her and the 38-year-old designer, dating back as far as 2018, which appear to show Costello sending several friendly messages to the model.

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Chrissy Teigen Claims Michael Costello DMs Were Faked in Detailed Statement