There are two things we know about Farrah Abraham: she’s never going to have the same face for more than one week and she’s never going to turn down an opportunity to diss her former Teen Mom co-stars.
During an interview with week with New York’s Z100 radio station host Crystal Rojas, the Backdoor Teen Mom blasted Tyler Baltierra and Catelynn Lowell, as well as Amber Portwood. She even seemed to have judgmental words for her 16 and Pregnant Season 1 co-star Whitney Purvis (whose son, Weston Jr., died last month at the age of 16) and Jenelle Evans (whom she reportedly “made amends” with in May after years of feuding online.)
“My brand still outshines the ‘Teen Mom’ brand,” Farrah said, giving herself a pat on her back. “That happened because someone stood still in herself and didn’t listen to, ‘Oh we’re a ‘Teen Mom’ family’ and then, like, get underpaid and disvalue myself, disvalue my child.”
(Despite how she’s making it sound, Farrah did not leave ‘Teen Mom OG’ voluntarily. She was fired in 2017 due to her unwillingness to end her adult entertainment career— despite it being against her MTV contract. Her shockingly poor treatment of the show’s production and crew also played a big part in her being axed.)
Anyway, Catelynn and Tyler— whom Farrah has bashed in the media frequently this year— seemed to have the bulk majority of the Big F’s insults aimed at them. Farrah gleefully ran with the fact that Cate and Ty have been (very publicly) blocked from their birth daughter Carly’s life by her parents Brandon and Teresa Davis. (Cate and Ty have been on an anti-adoption crusade since they were blocked last year.)
“Catelynn and Tyler from ‘Teen Mom’ they gave away their child thinking, ‘Oh it’s going to be a brighter future’ and all the brainwashing. They are not doing well, by any means,” Farrah said. “There’s no brighter future there.
“So stop taking these other, I guess it’s like peer pressures, manufactured emotions, manipulation. Stop living in somebody else’s alignment and live in yours,” she randomly added.
The radio show’s host, Crystal, expressed empathy for Tyler and Catelynn— something Farrah said the couple was undeserving of, due to the choices they have made.
“To live with people making choices for you— everyone might have this at some degree. I do not. I just say, I know how bad that feels and I know why they’re acting out,” she said of Catelynn and Tyler. “I know their behavior and some of it is inexcusable. Some of it is illegal. I just know that someone should else be paying for that.”
Farrah then went on to draw a parallel to her own mental health struggles.
“I sit in anxiety, I sit in depression, and I sat through every hard thing on my own. My parents do not help me. I help them and I think that we really just need to see the examples,” she said.
Speaking of mental health, next on Farrah’s list of people to shade was Amber. Farrah took aim at Amber’s estrangement from her daughter Leah and her poor choices in men, and seemingly tried to point the finger at MTV for “making” Amber do the things that she’s done.
“Poor Amber. Let’s distract her,” Farrah said. “Let’s let everyone get in the way of her relationship with her and her daughter. Let’s have these other distractions of dating.”
Farrah then went on to diagnose Amber and complain that the production company behind ‘Teen Mom’ didn’t follow medical compliance regulations.
“When someone has so many ADA-compliant disorders that you really need to take seriously,” Farrah said.
The Ashley would like to note here that, for the last year or so, Farrah has spoken about her “ADA-complaint disorders.” However, Farrah seems to be very confused on the topic, despite her speaking about it so often. Although she calls the mental health ailments she’s supposedly been diagnosed with “ADA-compliant,” it makes no sense, and she appears to have no clue what the term “ADA complaint” means. That term means that a business or place adheres to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and has made accommodations and modifications to their facilities/practices to accommodate people with disabilities. So, by nature, a mental health disorder/disability can’t be “ADA-compliant” because…it doesn’t even make sense.
Anyway, here’s what Farrah had to say about MTV not taking “ADA-compliance” to heart. (This paragraph reeks of Farrah-Speak so prepare for your head to spin.)
Which by the way, the production company that we worked around since 16 to now, they never really cared about ADA compliance,” Farrah said. “I found out at 27 after I got wrongfully fired, got my own therapist, who then diagnosed me for what I have. The weirder thing was, when I got diagnosed for ADHD and inattentive disorder, my doctor was like, ‘Farrah- you’ve gone your whole life and no one has said this to you and helped you.’”
Farrah said getting fired on television caused her trauma.
“[Producer Larry Musnik] said I’m the most difficult woman out of all these other women,” the Big F declared.
“And, I’m like, I’m the hardest worker. I show up. When I got fired, I showed up when I wasn’t even supposed to be working it was my day off.”
Farrah said the problem wasn’t how she treated the crew and producers it was “people around us don’t even want to have mental health and well-being.”
Farrah then brought up the tragic death of the son of “16 and Pregnant” alum Whitney Purvis. As The Ashley reported, Whitney lost her 16-year-old son Weston Gosa Jr. last month. While no official cause of death has been released for Weston Jr., Whitney has stated that he had several major health issues, including Type 1 diabetes and Addison’s disease.
For some reason, though, Farrah brought up the teen’s death into the conversation.
“Sadly one of the other ’16 and Pregnant’ cast members lost her 16-year-old son recently and, wow guys, check out what you can really see full circle looking back from ’16 and Pregnant’ to today,” she said. “What’s not changed? What is going on, health matters, there’s so much that is like educational, impressionable, and leading to a better life if you look at it.”
(Sadly, The Ashley– who is a certified “Farrah Speak” expert— has no clue what Farrah was trying to say there, and what this had to do with the tragic death of Whitney’s son.)
Farrah then mentioned another former co-star’s kid.
“It makes me sad to see some of the Teen Moms with their kid say they’ve got a defiant disorder,” Farrah said. “I’m like, ‘No, they have a depressive response because they have ADHD which is much different.’”
(Although Farrah didn’t specifically name the co-star or kid she is talking about, it’s almost certainly Jenelle Evans, who announced on social media last month the various mental health issues her eldest son, Jace, battles, one of which was ODD or Oppositional Defiance Disorder.
You can watch the entire (bizarre) interview below!
