When your entire life is on display from the time you turn 16 years old, there are bound to be some less than savory things on your record. The cast of Teen Mom has had some of their most embarrassing and inappropriate moments immortalized on national television and across social media.
Unfortunately, this includes a lot of offensive language, rhetoric, and images shared by the moms. Luckily, it seems that they’ve mostly grown out of this behavior… but now, Leah Messer is facing accusations of racism.
To understand these accusations of racism, it’s important to go back in time a little bit to the reveal that Leah Messer’s sister, Victoria Messer, was pregnant.
Victoria opened up about her scandalous pregnancy during the Teen Mom 2 reunion.
She recently got pregnant with a fling that she met during a vacation to Costa Rica!
During the Teen Mom 2 reunion, Victoria and Leah sat down with Dr. Drew and Nessa to spill about the situation. They revealed that Leah will be sponsoring Victoria’s baby daddy so that he can immigrate to the United States and be with Victoria!
Then Nessa asks the question we’ve all been wondering: “What happened to using protection?!”
After some giggles, Victoria reveals, “He had told me that he asked me about using a condom and I told him no. But I don’t remember that first time, so I guess it would be my fault.”
But then we learned the scandal of her baby daddy, Royer’s past!
“Does Royer have other children?” Dr. Drew asked during the reunion.
“Yes,” Victoria spilled, “He has two sons.”
“With the same person?” Dr. Drew asked.
“No,” Victoria admits. “They are different.” She spills that neither of the mothers are American. “He doesn’t really communicate with the moms,” she says. “His sons are old enough that he just communicates directly to them.”
Dr. Drew points out, “I’m wondering here if there’s not some more intention with this!”
This panned out to be a huge scandal among fans who were shocked that Royer is leaving his two children in Costa Rica to live with Victoria! His willingness to leave his sons doesn’t seem to bode well for his future with his third child.
Just this week, Victoria’s beautiful baby boy was born! And Leah was quick to share the news across social media.
“Caí River Rodríguez Messer. 01/20/2020 10:43am. You share your bday celebrating a legend #MartinLutherKingDay. So proud of your mamá and papí. #blessing #blessed,” Leah wrote.
Aside from the rumor that Leah was assuming MLK was born on MLK day (which is not the case; he was born on January 15), fans locked on to Leahs’ sprinkling of Spanish words. She also captioned the birth shots “#titi” and “#tía,” the affectionate terms for “aunt” in Spanish. Some people believe this is her overcompensating.
“Leah is trying so hard to prove that she isn’t racist and she just sounds f*cking ignorant,” wrote user jackiehennedy on reddit.
User CrazyChaoticCat agreed, “Enough already, shes trying so hard to come off as anti-racist that she actually sounds super racist. The accent marks over all her vowels is so fucking cringey as well.” User TheOtherMansSk1n wrote, “I know im always banging on about racism and cultural appropriation, but it's so inappropriate and trashy. A bunch of hicks thinking that now they have a coloured baby, they're woke and strong.”
It wasn’t long before Leah caught wind of the accusations and took to Twitter to clear things up.
“I guess learning español to speak fluently with my nephew is something to mock,” Leah wrote. “Mannnn, Why do so many of you spend your time hating others on social media? You could be much more productive and uplifting. How does this genuinely make you happy? #idontgetit.”
But unfortunately, this just landed Leah in more trouble.
“She knows that he doesn't just come out speaking Spanish, right?” wrote user MQHD wrote. User CoachKnope agreed, “I think she believes because he’s half Latino he will know Spanish. Like the baby is programmed.”
But some stood up for Leah, including user TimelessMeow, who penned,
“I'm actually shocked by all the hate here for this? She comes from a highly racist area, I'm surprised and pleased that she's bothering to learn instead of screaming SPEAK ENGLISH at the baby or something. She's at least considering his heritage. Hell, Kail married Javi and had Lincoln and I don't think she ever bothered to learn Spanish, did she? It's hard for an adult to learn a second language, so do I think she'll become fluent? Maybe not. But she's willing to try, so why beat her down for it?”
What do you think?
This isn't the only shocking update Leah has shared. She also recently admitted to her prescription pain addiction!
Leah Messer Finally Confirms Past Prescription Pill Addiction
In the world of Teen Mom, there are countless rumors -- it just comes with the territory. And even though there seems to be an endless supply of gossip, leaks, and theories, every now and then, one of them gets it right.
From huge news like Kailyn Lowry’s third pregnancy and Jenelle Evans’s divorce, sometimes rumors of the news spreads well before the fans themselves concern it.
As for Leah Messer the rumor of her addiction has been around even longer. Now, she’s finally confirming it.
During the 2014-2015 season of Teen Mom 2, rumors ran rampant that Leah Messer was hooked on prescription painkillers. In fact, even those in Leah’s life were concerned about her alleged use of pills. Her ex-husband Corey Simms and other members of her family were concerned about some of Leah’s actions that were caught on film. One time, Leah held the recently born Addie while almost falling asleep in the middle of a sentence! Leah also often had such a hard time getting out of bed that she sent the girls to school late, or without lunch.
Drug use and addiction are not something that MTV has historically shied away from. Jenelle has discussed her heroin and weed addictions on camera, and production for Teen Mom OG filming was even shut down when Amber Portwood was put in prison for drug and domestic violence charges. Leah, on the other hand, has never talked about drug use on the show, except to insist that she has never been addicted.
When she checked into a treatment facility in 2015, fans and family alike were absolutely convinced that Leah was seeking help for her substance abuse. Now, Leah is opening up about her time in treatment.
Much like the rest of the Teen Mom cast members, Leah Messer felt that not every part of her story was accurately represented by MTV. So like many of her co-stars, she decided to take it into her own hands by writing a book.
Later this year, Leah’s memoir will be hitting shelves. But she gave a sneak peak in an interview with Hollywood Life.
“During the writing process I told myself I get to be extremely vulnerable,” Leah spilled in the interview. She added, The purpose behind the book is for others to be just as vulnerable and be able to share their truth without feeling shameful. For the longest time I think there were a lot of things in my life that happened that I felt ashamed of, definitely.”
She shared a sizeable preview with her fans, going on: “Some of it played out on TV, some of it didn’t play out on TV because you can’t fit everything into an hour episode.” And, she revealed she’ll be confirming and going into depth about her substance abuse! “Some things that are in the book would be the whole situation revolving around me having an addiction and how all of that happened and where it led me to,” she said.
Leah went on:
“I was suicidal and I go into details about exactly how I was suicidal and why I was suicidal. And had it not been for my kids, which is why I named my book Hope, Grace and Faith, I wouldn’t be here today. There would be no Leah. My kids wouldn’t have a mom had it not been for also MTV and [manager] Lindsay [Rielly], but yes. Those two things will be in there. There’s also a lot more, so they just really get to see my life from my perspective and not what they’ve seen on TV. So I feel like so many people are going to be able to connect with me more and understand where I came from, my childhood up until leaving for Arizona.”
She went on, “It was hard because I had to reconnect with trauma in my childhood that led to decisions I made in my adult life.” She added, “It was going back to when my dad was very — Going back to sexual abuse and physical abuse, it was trying at times. I had a few very emotional phone calls. But at the end of the day the bigger vision, the bigger purpose is what is going to make it all worth it because I know other people are going to be able to stand for their truth, stand for their stories and not hold back from truly living their fullest potential.”
Fans opened up about Leah’s reveal on reddit.
“I’ve always felt very sympathetic towards Leah, as someone who was severely abused during childhood in all ways, I see all the signs just written all over others, I’ve always felt she was a survivor,” wrote user Justinetiny. They added, “To see this written down feels huge for me. I have been through my fair share of facing up to things, calling people out and trying to correct the behaviours the abuse created in me and I just feel... happy and relieved to see her acknowledge her own trauma and what led her to her decisions in life.”
User PurpleOwl85 wrote, “Yes..she is airing her dirty laundry for money and attention but it also to tell the world that she has been through hell and has not given up.
This is a very important message for her daughters and survivors of abuse and addiction. She has let go of the shame, owned her past and is finding happiness in life.”
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