TikTok star Lunden Stallings took a break from her honeymoon to address resurfaced racist tweets.
“There’s been some tweets of mine that I learned about yesterday, back 10 to 12 years ago, that had resurfaced. That’s not who I am, who I was as a teenager,” Stallings said alongside her wife, Olivia Bennett, in a video posted to her TikTok story Tuesday.
Stallings, 26, explained that she was “completely and utterly disgusted” by her past actions, adding that she is “ashamed” and “embarrassed” by how casually she used the slurs on the social media app and amongst her friends.
“That’s nobody else’s fault but mine,” she added.
Numerous tweets from Stallings’ account resurfaced mere days after she tied the knot with Bennett in a Georgia wedding.
The tweets, which were posted between 2012 and 2014, included rap lyrics with racial slurs. She has since deleted her Twitter account.
“I don’t want people to think that I am just sweeping this under the rug or that it’s something I’m not going to address or don’t want to address because I do want to address it.” Stallings said in a second TikTok Story post.
She added that she has “grown” in the past 10 years and would “never ever think about saying those things” today.
Chiming in, Bennett told followers of their shared TikTok account that it was a “really unfortunate and disgusting and ignorant mistake” that her wife made.
“You were a kid and you were ignorant and it was wrong and shameful, and it’s so embarrassing,” Bennett added, stating that Stallings past tweets are “not a reflection of [her] character” and how she and “so many people” know Stallings.
Despite apologizing, TikTok users have called out the social media star for making the apology through her TikTok Story that disappears within 24 hours rather than making a formal post.
“Doing it on stories so no one can stitch, and so it can disappear is crazy,” one user wrote in the comments section of a TikTok video explaining the drama.
Another user slammed Stallings in the comments section of a separate TikTok video, writing, “I’m shocked she’s saying it’s normal [because] I was around on twitter 10-12 years ago and it wasn’t normal for me
