Violinist rejects offer from bully to play wedding for free

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A violinist got the last laugh after a school bully from the past contacted her randomly about performing for free at her upcoming wedding.

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“Hey girl!!! It’s been forever,” the unnamed woman wrote in a private Instagram message to Tiffany Moore, who lives in Chicago but also travels for wedding gigs.

“I’m getting married, and I totally want you to play violin for my ceremony in October,” the woman wrote. “It would be the perfect gift, PLUS you could use the photos and videos to build your performance portfolio! Win-win!”

Moore, 31, who has worked nearly two decades as a professional musician and can also play the piano, ukulele, guitar, viola, cello while voice coaching and teaching music theory and songwriting, was appalled at the request.

Moore said she endured years of abuse and bullying at the hands of the woman. She flatly rejected the offer.

“Hello,” Moore replied. “1. It’s rather bold of you to assume that I’d gift you a $2,500 service. LOL.

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“2. You bullied me relentlessly in middle school for being in [the] orchestra.

“3. Build my portfolio? You may not realize I’ve been recognized by The Knot and Wedding Wire 6 years in a row. My ‘portfolio’ dates back to age 12. I’ve been in the wedding industry for 19 years.”

The ex-classmate also had the audacity to make a counter offer of $1,000 for Moore’s services.

“This is too much,” Moore texted back. “I have to decline your $1,000 offer, and also refuse to work for ‘exposure’.”

After Moore made the private messages public to expose her bully, the woman lashed out and threatened legal action.

But that didn’t stop the musician, who kept her followers updated by sharing the entire conversation online.

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“You’re really a piece of work, you know that?” the woman wrote, asking for the videos to be deleted. “Using me for internet fame is really low. You’re a nobody just like in school, once a nerd always a nerd.”

Moore agreed that she is a nerd but that others have come to accept her for who she is.

“Truth is, you made my already tough childhood even more difficult,” Moore snapped back. “While you were busy bullying people and starting drama I worked on my talent and eventually made something of myself.”

Moore said her life got worse in middle school from the constant bullying.

“She was just relentless, getting her friends to gang up on me and make fun of me or even pretend that I didn’t exist,” Moore told Britain’s Daily Mail.

“Going to activities for church and school, she would tell everybody not to talk to me, and that if they so much as looked at me, she was not going to be their friend.”

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While Moore’s followers suggested she contact the woman’s fiance concerning the message exchange, a friend alerted him to the posts shared to social media and he reached out to her.

“She’s being secretive and hiding things constantly,” he wrote Moore about his fiancee. “… I feel like she’s cheating on me too so I don’t know what to do.”

After confronting her about the text message screenshots, the unnamed woman “lashed out like the bully she is,” the man wrote.

He shared screenshots that revealed the woman telling him things like she didn’t really love him.

“She ostracized him from his friends,” Moore said. “He hasn’t had friends in two years because she made him only spend time with her.”

Following the blowup, the couple called off the wedding. The man wrote to Moore thanking her for exposing the woman’s true character.

“You literally saved my life,” he wrote. “I’m gonna try to fix things with my friends.”

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