Levi Johnston Vanity Fair Interview Unveils Pailn Family Secrets
In a revealing new interview with Vanity Fair Magazine, Levi Johnston, the former fiancee of political daughter Bristol Palin, opens up about what his one-time future mother-in-law former Republican Vice President candidate Sarah Palin. In the storyt titled “Me and Mrs. Palin,” Levi reveals that then Alaska Gov. Palin hatched a plan to his son with Bristol Palin, Tripp (born in December 2008) a secret so that she and husband Todd could raise him.
“She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him,” the 19-year-old reveals in the October issue of Vanity Fair. “That way, she said, Bristol and I didn’t have to worry about anything. Sarah kept mentioning this plan. She was nagging — she wouldn’t give up. She would say, ‘So, are you gonna let me adopt him?’ We both kept telling her we were definitely not going to let her adopt the baby. I think Sarah wanted to make Bristol look good, and she didn’t want people to know that her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid.”
Levi On Why Palin Resigned As Governor: “Sarah was sad for a while,” Levi explained when asked about Palin’s reaction to losing the Republican’s 2008 bid for The White House. “She walked around the house pouting. I had assumed she was going to go back to her job as governor, but a week or two after she got back she started talking about how nice it would be to quit and write a book or do a show and make ‘triple the money.’ It was, to her, ‘not as hard.’ She would blatantly say, ‘I want to just take this money and quit being governor.’ She started to say it frequently, but she didn’t know how to do it. When she came home from work, it seemed like she was more and more stressed out. It seemed like she couldn’t handle the job anymore. I think that she was just through with it all, or that she’d become used to getting everything she wanted handed to her. She’d rather take the money and keep that kind of lifestyle. When a magazine offered six figures to be at the hospital when Bristol gave birth, she said yes at first but then told us not to do it.”
Todd & Sarah Divorce Talks: “They wouldn’t go anywhere together unless the cameras were out. In all the time Bristol and I were together, I’ve never seen them sleep in the same bedroom…There was a lot of talk of divorce in that house… Todd would say, ‘All right, do you want a divorce? Is that what you want? Let’s do it! Sign the papers!’ They’d either stop and be fine, or Sarah would go to her room.”
Levi On Life In The Palin House: “The Palins didn’t have dinner together and they didn’t talk much as a family,” he tells VF. “Throughout the years I spent with them, when Sarah got home from her office — almost never later than five and sometimes as early as noon — she usually walked in the door, said hello, and then disappeared into her bedroom, where she would hang out. Sometimes she’d take an hour-long bath. Other times she sat on the living-room couch … watching house shows and wedding shows on TV. She always wanted things and she wanted other people to get them for her. If she wanted a movie, Bristol and I would go to the video store; if she wanted food, we’d get her something to eat, like a Crunchwrap Supreme from Taco Bell. She’d try to bribe everyone to clean the house, or give us guilt trips. She used to make Bristol feel bad by telling her that she did everything for her. This was unfair because, even before the campaign, Bristol was already the mom in the house, and she got tired of having to take care of her siblings.”
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