Michael Costello alleges Chrissy Teigen and Monica Rose blacklisted him

Published:Dec 5, 202303:44
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Michael Costello alleges Chrissy Teigen and Monica Rose blacklisted him

Designer Michael Costello claims a misunderstanding led him to get allegedly blacklisted by Chrissy Teigen within the style business, leaving him suicidal.

“For the past 7 years, I’ve lived with a deep, unhealed trauma,” “Project Runway” star Costello wrote on Instagram Monday night.

Costello, 38, alleged that in 2014, the 35-year-old Teigen “apparently formed her own opinion of me based on a Photoshopped comment floating around the internet which has now been proven to be false by Instagram and since taken down.”

He stated that he tried to clarify the mixup — which apparently made it appear as if he’d used a racial slur — to Teigen, whom he claims, “told me that my career was over and that all my doors will be shut from there on.”

Costello goes on to say that style business colleagues and pals advised him that Teigen and her stylist Monica Rose had allegedly “gone out of their way to threaten people and brands that if they were in any shape or form associated with me, they would not work with any of them.

“Each time I have pleaded with Chrissy Teigen or Monica Rose to see the whole story before believing a false narrative a former disgruntled employee cast upon me, they didn’t give me the time of day,” he added.

Costello posted screengrabs purportedly exhibiting a direct message thread with Teigen wherein she claimed, “Racist people like you deserve to suffer and die. You might as well be dead. Your career is over, just watch.”

“I didn’t see the point of living,” Costello, 38, wrote. “There was no way I can ever escape from being the target of the powerful elites in Hollywood.”

“I am not okay,” he continued. “I may never be okay, but today, I am choosing to speak my truth.”

In the caption of his submit, Costello famous, nonetheless, that “You do not have to say anything mean or hurtful about them in the comments I am trying every day to love myself and forget this [happened]. This is step 1.”

Teigen returned to her personal Instagram Monday with an extended apology — additionally posted to Medium — that addressed her previous actions in direction of individuals like Courtney Stodden, who dredged up Teigen’s hurtful feedback and messages to them in May.

Page Six has reached out to Teigen and Rose for remark.


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