If there’s one lesson to be learned from social media and the Internet, it’s that everything you post can be screenshotted and saved, to live forever in the fat book of cancelled behaviour. Just ask Kristin Cavallari.
Yesterday, the Laguna Beach star got caught out for posting a rather insensitive 9/11 tribute to Instagram. The photo featured a very glamorous looking Cavallari posing on a NYC sidewalk with the caption “NYC for 24hrs. And what a time to be here…always remember.”
Eek.
Fans were quick to take to the comments section to call Cavallari out. One wrote “wrong picture for the sentiment in the post,” and another commented, “I love you and think you are generally spot on in the things that you choose to present, but this is just disrespectful and undermining to the magnitude of the events that occurred on that horrific day.”
Cavallari has since edited the caption to “NYC for 24hrs,” and according to sources, she’s “parted ways” with the employee who was responsible for the post.
Sources told PEOPLE, the image was “supposed to be posted” the day before the anniversary of 9/11 but “then an employee took it upon herself to post it Wednesday with her own caption.”
“Kristin feels bad about the situation,” the source added.
Sadly, it’s not the first time a celeb has landed in hot water for a tone deaf Instagram post. In 2016, The O.C. star Mischa Barton took to Instagram to respond to the murder of Alton Sterling, an innocent 27-year-old black man who was shot dead at close range by two Baton Rouge Police Officers.
While Barton’s caption described how “heartbroken” she was about the situation, the photo accompanying her words begged to differ. It showed the teen star looking solemn while holding a glass of wine on the back of a fancy yacht.
When the backlash began, Barton swiftly deleted the pic – it’s been three years since then and the screenshots continue to live on. As the old saying goes: think before you act…and post.