Amber Portwood‘s friendships with her Teen Mom co-stars go back 16 years, but during a rant on TikTok Live on Monday, the couch enthusiast made it clear that things between her and Maci Bookout and Catelynn Lowell are no longer hunky-dory.
As The Ashley previously reported, Amber took swings at MTV, Gary Shirley and the show’s producers during her Internet tirade, and even her longtime friends Maci and Cate weren’t safe from Amber’s anger. After Amber brought up how upset she got when some of her co-stars— particularly Cheyenne Floyd and Jade Cline— criticized her treatment of her daughter Leah during a recent episode, a fan in the Live chat pointed out that Maci and Amber have always stuck by Amber, a statement that Amber seems to disagree with.
“Maci and Cate have been good to me? Hold up real quick,” Amber said before flipping off the camera.
Amber did not elaborate on her reasoning for telling her former BFFs to essentially F off. To The Ashley’s knowledge, Maci and Catelynn have not publicly spoken negatively about Amber or her parenting. It appears, though, that Amber may be upset that Maci and Cate didn’t stick up for her after the other girls slammed her.
“I don’t want to hear from anybody, because my mouth will go waaaaaaaaahhh,” Amber said.
Amber claimed that she does not watch ‘Next Chapter’ and only knows what’s discussed on the episodes because her mother tells her. She did, however, slam MTV for getting the other girls on the cast to talk about her on-camera.
“I feel bad for my daughter and why she thinks the way that she thinks of me. And I feel bad for everyone else getting involved. I don’t think it’s right for MTV to push it on Cheyenne and them, to be sitting there [talking about me],” Amber said.
“I can’t watch this s**t because it gets too hurtful,” Amber added. “And I just don’t want to hear about it anymore. I’m not delusional, guys.”
As The Ashley previously told you, Amber spent a portion of the Live bragging that she was the girl who “started” the ‘Teen Mom’ franchise. When fans wrote in the comment section that they consider Maci to have “started” ‘Teen Mom,’ since her episode of 16 and Pregnant was the first to air, Amber got upset, insisting that, because hers was the pilot episode, she started the franchise.
As for Maci and Catelynn, they have yet to respond to being flipped off by Amber. However, the last time they were asked about Amber in an interview, they kept things as positive as possible. Back in January, while doing on-camera interviews to promote the new season of ‘Next Chapter,’ a reporter from TooFab asked Maci and Cate (along with Leah Messer) how Amber was doing following her traumatic breakup with Gary Wayt. While all three girls looked unhappy that Amber was brought up, they still refrained from saying anything negative.
“I wouldn’t say that it’s so much as ‘keeping tabs on her,'” Catelynn said. “I think it was more of checking in on a friend [and saying], ‘Hey, how are you doing? Are you OK?’ Which me and Maci both did. We both made it a point to reach out to her.”
“She knows that we’re there for her,” Maci— who actually went to North Carolina last June to pick Amber up after Gary 2.0 stranded her at a vacation rental home— added.
Cate did admit that she and Maci “haven’t heard from her much” but that wasn’t unusual for Amber.
“She kind of does that,” Cate said. “She’ll talk and she’ll reach out a lot and then she won’t. Maybe that’s a good thing, maybe she’s doing well.”
During Amber’s Live, Gary and his wife Kristina were also on the receiving end of Amber’s wrath, with Amber accusing them of purposely trying to shut her out of Leah’s life and doing illegal things to make it happen.
“Gary and Kristina never wanted me in [Leah’s] life,” Amber claimed. “They always said that she was busy, this, that and the other. All these excuses. And then all of a sudden Leah didn’t want to come stay [at my house] anymore. Blah blah blah. Guys, I have not been able to do anything with my daughter legally that I am supposed to [be able] to do. Because [Gary and Kristina] have been illegally doing their s**t.
“…[Leah’s] dad just needs to go away and let me be with my daughter alone,” Amber said later. “And that’s all I’ve wanted.”
The Ashley will continue to update this story. Stay tuned…
