Courtney Stodden alleges Chrissy Teigen sent DMs telling them to kill themself
The media and anyone who’s been active online in the past decade have all been reckoning with their mistreatment of Britney Spears in the early 2000s while the pop star was going through a mental health crisis and trapped in an emotionally abusive dynamic with her father. As a direct result, many people are looking at other pop culture figures who were also maligned by the media. One of those figures is Courtney Stodden, who married Green Mile star Doug Hutchinson when they were 16 and Hutchinson was 51. (Stodden recently shared on social media that they’re non-binary and use they/them pronouns.) In an interview with The Daily Beast, they detail the horrific mistreatment and sexualization they experienced at the hands of the press as a minor, and they recall how their ex-husband groomed and emotionally abused them.