Twitter trolls appear to have driven swimsuit vixen Chrissy Teigen into online hiding.
The 28-year-old model said she was taking a hiatus from Twitter after she received scores of death threats in response to a wisecrack she made about the deadly shooting in Canada’s capital Wednesday.
“I feel sick. Bye Twitter. Taking my talents to Instagram,” Teigen wrote Thursday.
The oft-irreverent model became the target for avalanche of trash talk after she used the shooting death of a Canadian soldier at a war memorial in Ottawa to snark about gun control.
“Active shooting in Canada, or as we call it in america, wednesday,” she wrote.
While some of the model’s fans said they supported the sentiment, others criticized her timing, saying it showed poor tasted to make jokes while a soldier lay dead.
Many more, though, slammed the brunette covergirl, hurling insults at her and her husband, crooner John Legend.
Wrote wrote he wished the terror group ISIS “would give Chrissy a permanent haircut.”
“I can’t see anything through the sea of hate and anger that is now my Twitter. Seriously I can’t sift through it all,” she wrote Thursday.
“Amazing this isn’t punishable,” she said about one of the threats.
Teigen’s account remained live on Friday, though she hadn’t posted any message by early Friday afternoon.
Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, 24, was the soldier who was shot and killed at the War Memorial today in Ottawa on Wenesday.
Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, an Islamic radical and crack cocaine addict, was identified as the gunman. Ottawa police said they believe he acted alone.
