Stacey Griffith – the famous SoulCycle instructor who cut the line for a COVID vaccine by claiming she was an ‘educator’, apologized for her actions, but a former collaborator tells us that her behavior is not surprising is not.
“It’s totally in line with Stacey’s character. She’s working entirely from a narcissistic point of view,” the former staff member said. “She has a large God complex.”
Griffith, who includes Madonna and Kelly Ripa, posted on Instagram on Friday about the vaccination at a high school in Staten Island and told the Daily Beast that she is an educator in the health care system. (School teachers are eligible in New York.)
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“In my profession of health and wellness as a teacher, it is my priority to make my community and their respiratory systems work at full capacity so that they can defeat this virus if infected by it,” she said. “I can only teach them if I’m healthy myself.”
Stacey Griffith leads a class rehearsal in the SoulCycle studio at the American Express Platinum House in The Parker Palm Springs on April 15, 2017 in Palm Springs, California (Ari Perilstein / Getty Images for American Express)
By Monday, she had apologized, saying she had “made a terrible mistake of judgment.”
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SoulCycle appears to have removed itself from the move by telling Page Six in a comment Tuesday that Griffith ‘had acted in a personal capacity to apply for a COVID-19 vaccine in NY. SoulCycle does not play a role in organizing or obtaining vaccinations for instructors or other employees we also do not encourage anything [our] employees to seek vaccine priority as educators. “
The former staff member said: “they like to ignore bad behavior from instructors … It’s a culture of bulls.”
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Either way, the controversy is just the latest in terms of the first-class fitness brand. Major instructors are accused of making racist and homophobic comments at work, having sex with clients and colleagues with a fat disgrace.
SoulCycle had earlier commented on the incidents that its “core values” consist of diversity, inclusion, acceptance and love. If we receive complaints or allegations related to behavior within our community that do not conform to our values, we take them very seriously and both investigate and address them. ‘
This report originally appeared in the New York Post.