Bristol Palin Responds to Former 'Teen Mom' Farrah Abraham Calling Her a Copycat
Earlier this month, MTV confirmed that Bristol Palin and Cheyenne Floyd would be joining the new season of Teen Mom OG, and had also been filming for the show over the past few months. (Flood's casting had previously been rumored, but Palin's came out of left field.) This news followed former cast member and OG OG mom Farrah Abraham's dramatic exit from the show.
Although Abraham sued Viacom over what she claimed was her being "sex shamed," she decided to settle the lawsuit privately. And she also didn't seem salty about Palin replacing her at first, saying "I don’t care as there’s no replacement for me, as we all know." But last month, she told Us Weeklythat she'd become concerned that Palin was trying to copy her. "She moved to the same place I live," Abraham said. “I’m actually scared. I want to stay away from that.”
And now, as part of a round of promo for the forthcoming season, Palin has broken her silence on the matter in a no-holds-barred interview on Jenny McCarthy's SiriusXM radio show. Palin told McCarthy that, at first, she felt bad for the reality star. "I know how it feels to be judged off the bat. I feel like I walk into a room and people are like, ‘Oh,’ you know?"
"So I always [watched] the show and I’m like, you know, maybe she’s just misunderstood," she continued, clearly taking a killing-with-kindness approach to the clapback. "You know, poor girl. I feel so bad because I feel the same way."
Things changed, of course, when Abraham basically called her a copycat. "It’s like, girlfriend, you could not pay me to want to be anything like you," Palin said (which is perhaps a lil' bit ironic because she is now being paid to showcase her life as a young mom on TV-which, I mean, is something like Abraham?)
"This is the only time I’m going to address it because I can’t stand people like that, that are just searching for attention. It’s poke, poke, poke," Palin continued. "It’s like, no, you’re like that on the show because that’s how you are." Or, in Abraham's case, no longer on the show.
Still, Palin tells McCarthy that she would have joined the show even if Abraham were still part of it. "I know who I am and I don’t have to sit here and question that," she said.
Teen Mom OG returns on October 1, 2018.
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