Chrissy Teigen is not here for your bullshit, especially if that bullshit involves suggesting she and her husband John Legend are involved in a pedophile ring involving their own daughter.
On Saturday, Teigen laid into a conspiracy theorist on Twitter that had tweeted out pictures of her daughter and insinuated that she and husband John Legend were part of some sort of secret society of celebrity pedophiles.
This latest addition to the Pizzagate delusion began on Dec. 27. In a now-deleted tweet, a conspiracy theorist posted photos of Teigen's daughter and suggested the celebrity's use of a pizza emoji was evidence of something nefarious.
Teigen was having none of it, criticizing the person behind the account in numerous tweets. She also called out Twitter for having previously verified the person's account.
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The poster, Liz Crokin, is a self-stylized "investigative journalist" with "Pedogate is REAL" prominently featured in her Twitter bio. Pedogate, for those blissfully unaware, is an evolution of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which falsely held that a pedophile ring tied to the Clintons was being at least partially run out of the basement of a Washington D.C. pizza shop. Obviously, that claim was nonsense, but facts can't get in the way of a good, baseless attack. When Pizzagate fizzled after a person entered the restaurant with a gun, people moved onto the next thing — that an international child trafficking ring is being run by global elites (AKA "Pedogate").
So what does any of this have to do with Chrissy Teigen? Well, that's what she wants to know.
Crokin appears to have argued that some of the pictures Teigen posted, as well as her use of emoji, was code that indicated Teigen's involvement in this supposed conspiracy.
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And while the dictum of "don't feed the trolls" might seem to apply here, Teigen has a different take — noting that sometimes you just need to fight back.
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In this case, for both Teigen and her husband, fighting back may include a lawsuit.
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We reached out to Teigen for comment, and will update this if we hear back, but in the middle of all this confusing mess one thing is abundantly clear: it looks like 2018 is going to be the year of not fucking with Chrissy Teigen's family.
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