Social media influencer Lunden Stallings put her honeymoon on hold to deal with the growing backlash against her after her old racist tweets resurfaced.
Stallings, 26, a TikTok celebrity known for flaunting his lavish lifestyle with now-wife Olivia Bennett, drew the ire of the internet shortly after his glamorous wedding over the weekend when a post on Reddit revealed tweets from more than a decade ago about him. casual use of profanity.
The tweets appear to date from 2012 to 2014, with Stallings, a white woman, repeatedly using the n-word dozens of times in casual posts.
“Some of my tweets that I learned yesterday, from 10 to 12 years ago, have resurfaced. That’s not me, who I was as a teenager,” Stallings said in a TikTok story apology video supported by his wife.
TikToker Lunden Stallings (left) has apologized for his resurfaced tweet casually using the N-word more than a decade ago. TikTok/@lundenandolivia The tweets show Stallings using racial slurs continuously between 2012 and 2014. Reddit
“I just want to acknowledge and realize that I’m really and truly disgusted and embarrassed and honestly embarrassed to see how normal it is for me to talk that way on Twitter and for my friends and I to call each other that way or to I sing along in a rap song,” he added.
“That’s no one’s fault but mine.”
Stallings’ video, however, only drew further backlash, with many claiming it was inappropriate to address such a scandal through her TikTok story, which disappeared after 24 hours.
Stalling and Bennett’s shared TikTok account, which has more than 703,000 followers, did not currently have any videos addressing the apology as of Wednesday afternoon.
Stallings, a white woman, admitted she was wrong and said she was embarrassed by her past use of the N-word.Reddit
One Reddit user dismissed the apology, writing: “She’s old enough to know better here, plus the fact that she has HUNDREDS of tweets that legitimately drop the N-word. And she deleted every comment on her social media that asked about it. Very humiliating.”
Another TikToker with the handle “nawalor noel” summarized the problem with Stallings’ apology in his own viral video, which has been viewed more than 1.5 million times.
“If you’re ready to step up and accept your past and take responsibility for your actions, you have to be patient,” Noel said.
The controversy comes in the wake of Stalling’s long-awaited wedding to his partner, Olivia Bennett.Instagram/@lunden.rose
“If you’re ready to admit all these things, you have to listen to what people have to say, especially when you have a large following,” he added.
Stallings did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
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