--- title: Chrissy Teigen Admits a Stranger Saved Her from a Cyclist description: A funny paparazzi photo of the model and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen may have fans laughing, but it turns out there's a story behind it. canonical: https://time.com/5218780/chrissy-teigen-cyclist/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-28T16:09:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:02:49.275Z og:title: That Stranger in the Chrissy Teigen Photo Was Actually Heroic og:description: A photo of Chrissy Teigen has fans laughing, but there's a heroic story behind it og:url: https://time.com/5218780/chrissy-teigen-cyclist/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ea8a04a7d8c5473/69892c2f86f68e3f006e8b90/chrissy-teigen-street.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Celebrity Sightings in New York City - March 27, 2018 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: That Stranger in the Chrissy Teigen Photo Was Actually Heroic twitter:description: A photo of Chrissy Teigen has fans laughing, but there's a heroic story behind it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ea8a04a7d8c5473/69892c2f86f68e3f006e8b90/chrissy-teigen-street.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chrissy Teigen Sets the Record Straight About That Photo With the Random Stranger > Sponsored content. 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Raymond Hall—GC Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Mar 28, 2018 4:09 PM UTC People thought a paparazzi photo of [Chrissy Teigen](http://time.com/5215400/chrissy-teigen-snapchat/) getting photobombed by a passerby was just a funny image. Others thought the man may have even been invading the popular celebrity’s personal space. They thought wrong. As model and cookbook author Teigen pointed out [on Twitter](http://time.com/4947946/chrissy-teigen-trolls-john-legend/), the passing good Samaritan was walking so close to her because he was actually stopping her from getting hit by a biker. “He actually saved me from getting run over by a cyclist,” she explained in a comment on a tweet. “I should have looked before stepping out!” Teigen, who announced her second pregnancy [in November](http://time.com/5034270/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-second-child/), appeared to just be crossing a New York City street when the incident nearly occurred. Luckily it seems she has eagle-eyed angels surrounding her. Her husband John Legend may be inhabiting the role of Jesus Christ himself in the live NBC production of [_Jesus Christ Superstar_](https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-john-legend-became-the-black-jesus-we-need-in-jesus-christ-superstar-live) at the moment, but there are all kinds of benevolent souls wandering our rough city streets, clearly. Oh, and a reminder: always keep an eye out for the cyclists. > [](https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/978811014899752962) The explanation was prompted when a fan sent Teigen the photo in a tweet — and she had to joke about the funny optics of the snap, of course. > [](https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/978804098152779776) ## Transcript Chrissy Teigen claims to have discovered the identity of the alleged Beyonce biter. Here we go. The model tweeted Monday that she knows the unnamed actress who Tiffany Haddish claims bit the Lemonade singer in the face at Jay Z's after party a few months back. Yeah, Chrissy writes, I can only think of one person who would do this. But I cannot say. But she is the worst. Okay Chrissy, you gotta tell us. Who is it? Yeah, well it seemed like the model did some digging since she updated fans later that day saying, quote, update, it is not the person I think is the worst. I'm done. Yeah, even though fans begged for answers, Chrissy would not give up the goods adding, I'm never telling, I'm scared. I've said too much, knowldege is a curse. The only person who might really kow what happened is Tiffany Haddish, and probably Beyonce. Yeah, probably. Who was actually, Tiffany though was at the after party where the Supposed incident took place of course. Yeah Tiffany revealed to GQ that Beyonce stormed away and grabbed JayZ after the ordeal. A few minutes later, a friend walked up to the Girls Trip star revealing quote, can you believe this b just bit Beyonce? [ LAUGH ] Tiffany goes on to add that that actress was on drugs Saying it was Beyonce who told the funny woman to keep her cool after Tiffany wanted to quote, she said beat somebody's ****. Beyonce's rep responded to the claim saying, I absoluytely cannot comment on any of this as I have no knowledge. Will we ever know what happened on that cold December night? Will we ever know the identity of the Beyonce bitter? 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