Whew! And the plot thickens. We just lately reported on claims by Leona Lewis that Michael Costello and his staff made her really feel uncomfortable throughout a costume becoming in 2014. Following the becoming, Leona alleges that he didn’t enable her to mannequin the costume throughout a style present, which brought on her to really feel humiliated and insecure for years. Effectively, it seems to be just like the claims received again to Michael as a result of he took to his Instagram to dispute them.
In a sequence of posts, Michael displayed receipts together with an e mail and Instagram publish by Leona allegedly carrying certainly one of his clothes. He expressed confusion by Leona’s earlier claims on condition that her staff has allegedly requested clothes from him as current as final month.
“If I made you’re feeling unhealthy in 2014 however you continue to wore my clothes and request them, can we attempt to work out what received misplaced in translation with the costume you wore,” Michael wrote. “You appeared so stunning in it.”
As it’s possible you’ll already know, people on social media have been in an uproar relating to Chrissy Teigan’s resurfaced cyberbullying tweets. After the mannequin issued a public apology for her actions, Michael stepped as much as share his bullying expertise along with her. In his publish, Michael included screenshots of a textual content thread with Chrissy the place she allegedly tells him “racist individuals such as you should endure and die.” Michael claimed Chrissy’s feedback brought on him to ponder suicide.
In a turn-a-round of occasions, the day after Michael shared his Chrissy interplay, he was accused of bullying another person. A Black boutique proprietor mentioned he referred to as her a “Black Ni**er bit**,” which resulted in a combat.
Leona is now the second Black lady to publicly declare Michael has achieved his fair proportion of bullying. In his response, Michael filmed a video of Leona’s publish carrying a crimson costume designed by him.
“So sassy in my Michael Costello costume,” Michael mentioned within the video whereas exhibiting the publish. “Is {that a} good factor or a foul factor trigger I’m making an attempt to determine what occurred. Nonetheless making an attempt to determine it out. All people desires to come back at me and complain at me and say a complete bunch of issues about me, go forward.”
As of Wednesday morning, there’s been no response by Leona regardless of Michael’s pleas to have a dialog. Nonetheless, on Tuesday night, Michael adopted up his posts with a prolonged assertion on his Instagram Story. He reiterated his earlier messages, whereas saying that he feels “blindsided” by her feedback.
“I’ve misplaced tons of alternatives, sleepless nights, and I’m not in psychological mind-set,” Michael wrote. “I want you spoke to me instantly as an alternative of on Instagram, particularly once I’m in my most susceptible second. After years of trauma and being blacklisted with receipts proven to me by pals and allies, I’ve been suicidal and sometimes really feel no function to dwell.”
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