Amber Portwood was back to ranting on TikTok Live over the weekend and, this time, the former (?) Teen Mom star was set off by followers’ comments informing the person she was battling with on TikTok that Amber had “abandoned” her daughter, Leah. When the man questioned Amber as to why neither of her children live with her, Amber went off— bragging about her long, storied career on reality TV and defending her parenting skills and history.
Allow The Ashley to break it all down for you…
Amber was (as usual) on TikTok Live with some random guy— who appears to have no idea who Amber was and knows limited English. When he asked why Amber had so many people on her Live, Amber– never one to pass up the chance to brag about being famous— proceeded to tell the random dude that she is famous from being on “the longest-running franchise on MTV.”
“About 20 years I was on television,” Amber bragged, to which the random dude started laughing.
Amber then insisted that she’s “trying to retire” from the show– for the third time— but she’s still under contract. (As The Ashley previously told you, Amber revealed in March that she has quit ‘Teen Mom: The Next Chapter.’) As Amber goes on about her reality television career, the man starts reading the comments being posted on their Live… and that’s when things started to get tense.
The self-proclaimed “damn good mom” was not happy when the man read a comment from a follower that claimed Amber “abandoned her daughter.”
The man— who, again, appeared to have no knowledge of Amber’s history or family life— then read a comment from someone who stated that Amber has “children she doesn’t see.” (As ‘Teen Mom’ fans know, Amber is the mother of 16-year-old daughter, Leah, with whom she’s currently estranged from, and son James, who is about to turn seven and lives in California with his father, Andrew Glennon.)
“That’s not true at all. No,” Amber replied in regard to the comment about her not seeing her kids. “First of all, I see all of my children. And not only that, I have an amazing relationship.”
The guy on Amber’s Live is ready to move on to other topics, but Amber is fired up and tells him to be quiet so she can “clear up” what is being said about her relationship with Leah.
“You talk a lot! Let me talk!” the man tells Amber.
Amber ignores his plea to let him get a word in and proceeds to explain that the problems in her and Leah’s relationship are because Leah is a teenager.
“Things happen! We’re going to be OK,” Amber insists, before telling him that she has an “amazing” relationship with her son James. “…My daughter’s 16. She’s going through her 16 phase. We’re gonna be OK. It’s starting to calm down a little bit anyways.
“[The fans] are going off of [things they’ve seen on] a show I’m trying to quit!” Amber tells the man (all while the One Direction song “That’s What Makes You Beautiful” randomly plays in the background…naturally.) “Anyone who is going to be on my Live, you’re going to show me respect or you’re not going to be on my Live anymore!”
Amber then begins to brag about being a big cheese in the reality TV world.
“I’m very respected in what the f**k I do!” Amber insisted. “Whether people know it or not, I’m very respected. So I will not take that. There’s no other show that is the longest-running franchise on MTV.”
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The random man doesn’t seem impressed with Amber’s TV career, much to the future LazyBoy spokesperson’s dismay. She scolds the man for reading the comments about her parenting.
“Whoever is saying that I don’t have my daughter is wrong,” she says. “I have joint custody of my daughter.”
“I was going to rehab, so I signed my rights over for [Leah’s dad Gary Shirley] to have primary [custody]. And that was over 10 years ago,” Amber added.
The man is still confused about Amber’s custody situation and asks the simple question, “So where is your son?”
“Again, another situation where he’s with his father,” Amber replied. “I am here, but we are not together. But I see my son all the time and I talk to my son all the time….I know the truth; [the fans are] just going off of MTV.”
At the utterance of “MTV,” Ambie made a face like she just smelled the inside of Farrah Abraham‘s driveway porta-potty, to let everyone know that she is none-too-fond of the network these days.
The man is still confused about the living situations of Amber’s children and then asks another question.
“Your daughter or son, not live with you?” he asks Amber in broken English. “They not live with you?”
The question seems to tick Amber off even more, and she begins to launch into an explanation.
“I have no guilt for what I did in my twenties, darling!” Amber says.
“Why they’re not living with you?” the man asks Amber again of her kids.
Amber prepares to verbally go for this man’s jugular. (We know this because she does the head tilt and squinty eyes combo, a sure sign that Portwood is able to strike.)
However, Amber pauses for a moment, seemingly trying to figure out a way to answer that question.
“Your son and daughter. They live with your husband, with your ex?” he asks her again.
Amber finally settles on an explanation and ask the man if he knows what an addict is.
“Do you know what fentanyl is?” she asks. “That’s what I was addicted to the last time, and that’s what I withdrew off of. So, you can tell your little people over there to go f**k off! I almost died three times!”
The man seems surprised (and, honestly, a bit scared) at how quickly the anger flowed out of Amber, but she continued to explain that Leah “was given” to Gary so that Leah didn’t see Amber on drugs or getting beat up by her “all her exes.”
“I’ve been shutting my mouth for a long f**king time!” Amber ranted, before explaining why she doesn’t have custody of her son, James.
“[That] was a bulls**t lie. But I have an amazing relationship with my ex [Andrew] and with my son. Amazing. So you guys need to stop f**king judging addicts and people who have four mental illnesses and leave us the f**k alone.
“I am a good mom for everything that I f**king deal with!” she added.
By this time, the man seems to have totally tuned Amber out, and looks like he’s trying to figure out why this American woman keeps screaming at him. However, Amber keeps going.
“You don’t judge people who f**ked up when they were younger, OK?” she said. “I’ll be 35 on May 14th. Everybody grow the f**k up. I am not the only person in the world that is like this. I’m not the worst person.”
Amber goes on to tell the man— who, mind you, by this time is barely keeping his eyes open— that she fought for her kids and was an addict and mentally unstable.
“Today I’m not an addict and I’m not mentally unstable!” Amber insisted, later adding, “I’m a very nice person! …But I will not be judged!”
You can watch some of Amber’s TikTok rant below!
