It got ugly!
Unlike many drama-packed reality shows, the Teen Mom stars are all spread across the country. That means they don’t get a lot of on-screen interaction with one another throughout the season. After all, they normally have more than enough drama to deal with on their own!
But in recent seasons, more and more tension has been arising among the cast members. Even though many of them were extremely close when the show first began airing, not many of their friendships have stood the test of time. In fact, many of the cast members have become full-on enemies.
Since they don’t see each other much in person, it means when they do get together, a lot of pent-up emotion is bound to come out. No wonder the reunions often get so ugly so quickly.
Despite the iconic scene of Amber Portwood taking a swing at Farrah Abraham during a Teen Mom OG reunion, it looks like the upcoming Teen Mom 2 reunion may be giving that moment a run for its money. It appears that some of the cast members couldn’t keep them hands to themselves, and the feud between Kailyn Lowry and Briana DeJesus got violent.
Splitting Up
It’s no secret that Kailyn Lowry and Briana DeJesus do not like one another. Even though they’ve only been on the same show for one season, it seems like they have enough fuel to hate each other for the rest of their lives. Ironically, the relationship that they first started fighting over — Briana dating Kailyn’s ex husband Javi Marroquin — has long since ended.
For Briana, the breakup all came down to having conflicting views of the future.
“Javi and I are not together anymore,” she revealed to Blasting News. “Our future just doesn’t line up. He doesn’t want me to get my surgery for a breast lift, lipo, and tummy tuck (which I’m doing in two weeks) because it’ll look bad on his name at work.”
Javi has always spoken about wanting a big family and commitment, and apparently that didn’t sit right with Briana. “I don’t plan on moving in with him in the summer and for these reasons, he broke up with me,” she revealed. But at the time, she wished Javi the best. “I have no bad things to say about him,” she confessed. “He wanted a wife and home right now and I didn’t see a reason to rush. I wish him the best going forward, and I am sad things panned out this way, but this is where things currently stand.”
As for Javi, he had his own spin on the breakup. “I’m hurting a little right now. I’m upset about it,” Javi revealed to Radar Online at the time. Javi insisted, “[t]he surgery itself wasn’t the issue.” But he added, “Bri is an amazing person with the biggest heart I’ve ever got to hold. Everything she goes through and she’s still selfless and does her best to please others. She’s got a bright future and she’ll make any guy feel special.”
Don't Provoke Me!
Even though their breakup was peaceful at first, these good vibes just did not last very long. Things got much uglier after Javi Marroquin made a guest appearance on Kailyn Lowry’s podcast Coffee Convos, where he and his ex-wife dished about the situation.
“[Briana and I] will never get along. You allowed her to disrespect me to my face, also on camera, also and in text messages,” Kailyn revealed on the show. “When I said what I had to say in a nice way you defended her and not me.”
Despite Javi’s attempts to defend his girlfriend, Kailyn wasn’t having it. She also pointed out, “Telling the mother of your child to ‘suck her d**k’ and that I’m a ‘dumb b***h’ doesn’t portray her as a good person.”
Apparently Briana tuned in to the podcast, and it goes without saying she had some words of her own.
“Let me spill some tea for u guys,” Briana began a now-deleted Twitter rant. She told fans she had “all rights to get out of character,” adding, “Don’t act like the victim because you were the one who made this issue what it is.”
According to her rant, Kailyn called her at 7 a.m. and told her not to post about her on social media. Then, according to Briana, Kailyn went on to gossip about her and “bad mouth” her to Javi. “That’s when the line gets crossed,” Briana wrote.
“I’ll say [suck] my d**k whenever I want to whoever I want and if you can not handle it….. Don’t provoke me,” she went on.
On her podcast, Kailyn said she would apologize to Briana “when pigs fly.” In her Twitter rant, Briana responded to this, saying, “And you are right, ill never say sorry cause I am not the one who started all this mess.” Briana also accused Kailyn and Javi of using ther “kids as pawns.” She raged: “I am not the common denominator as to why yall fail to co parent so dont ever use my name in that matter again. Don’t sit here and say I am the issue cause I AM NOT.”
She even targeted Javi in her rant. “Dont say u dont know what the future holds to someone but in my msgs saying u wanna marry me,” she said. “In reality u only care bout ur feelings and not anyone elses.” She even wrote, “AND DONT SIT HERE TRYNA PLAY MIND GAMES WHEN THE REAL REASON WHY WE ARE HERE IS BECAUSE OF U..JAVI.”
The only person who escaped Briana’s wrath was her new friend Jenelle Evans. “I’ll be right behind u. #BestBelieve,” Jenelle wrote, and Briana replied, “THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Needless to say, there’s a lot of tension between this bizarre love triangle. Luckily, they had enough distance between them for the majority of Teen Mom 2 filming that all of the fighting took place over Twitter. But that also led to a lot of pent-up aggression that had nowhere to go… until they all got together for the Teen Mom 2 reunion filming, where things got very ugly very fast.
Hair-Pulling
We all saw just how intense emotions get between Kailyn and Briana’s family during the Teen Mom 2 series premiere and following episode. After Kailyn made it very clear that she didn’t want to be in the same room as Briana, Briana’s entire family took a stance against Kailyn. Apparently this animosity has continued on for the months since the New Year’s Eve reunion special, and the Teen Mom 2 series finale reunion got even uglier. In fact, it apparently got violent.
According to The Ashley’s Reality Roundup, the girls didn’t waste any time before getting into an ugly fight. “Briana was the last girl called to the stage, and she came out and went right at Kail,” a source told The Ashley. “Briana’s sister Brittany DeJesus was on set too and she jumped in and got in Kail’s face. They started swinging at each other and Kail was motioning to Bri to ‘Bring it on!’”
Another source revealed, “There had been a lot of back-and-forth instigation on both ends before the girls got on the stage. That’s why Bri came out ready to fight.”
“Everyone else that was on stage scattered to get out of the way,” a source said. “Even Dr. Drew ran out of there.”
Unsurprisingly, not everyone was happy about the drama. “Chelsea [Houska] was super upset by it all,” a source informed The Ashley. “She’s pregnant and was worried that she would get caught up in a fight, and that’s exactly what happened.”
The Ashley soon updated with even more information on the brawl. The outlet reports that the stage brawl took place after Kailyn tried to confront Briana backstage while there were no cameras around. A source revealed, “Bri acting like Kail was dumb for wanting to fight.”
When security heard what was going on, they managed to cool things down between the girls. Then the cast returned for an “Unseen Moments” special filming.
“Everyone was sitting on the stage and for some reason they put Brittany behind Kail on the couches,” a source revealed. “They didn’t have any security posted by Brittany. As soon as Briana came out, ready to fight, Brittany stood up and joined in. Kail turned around to get off stage and that’s when Brittany yanked Kail’s hair.”
The Big Showdown
Not everyone was game to stay after things got ugly. The Ashley reveals that Jo Rivera ditched the scene after everything escalated. “He said he was done with this crap and isn’t filming the Reunion [the following day],” a source revealed.
However, some of the baby daddies were thrilled to hear about the drama. “I’M SO GLAD KAIL GOT HER A** BEAT!” Jenelle Evans’ baby daddy and husband, David Eason, shared in a Facebook post. “That’s what she gets for saying she would hit my wife! And why is Randy there calling tabloids?”
But Kailyn soon set the record straight. She tweeted, “I didn’t get beat up. I didn’t get hit. Reeeeeeeeeelax.” All of The Ashley’s sources have confirmed that no punches were thrown during the filming.
There are endless sides to this story, but Kailyn spoke out with her own version of the events in an interview with E! News.
“Brittany ran up behind me and pulled my hair,” Kailyn explained. “That was it.”
She did confirm that she attempted to confront Briana away from cameras at the beginning of the feud. “I confronted [Briana] alone and she wouldn’t get up. I just wanted to hash it out. But she didn’t want to,” Kailyn explained. “We went into a private room without cameras and I told her to get up. She wouldn't’ get up. That was that.”
Briana also tweeted about the event. When a fan asked if she was okay, she simply responded, “Yes baby I am. I fell on stage but that’s ok.”
But soon, she shared her own side of the story.
Call Security!
“I got to the studio,” she told HollywoodLife.com. “I get a text and it’s Kail saying she wants to talk. So Production told me that she wants to squash the beef since we are on the same show. So I said ok. Kail didn’t want our ‘convo’ filmed so Production stood in the hallway.”
She went on to say, “When Kail walks in, she looked like she wanted to fight, so I’m like omg here we go. There’s 3 guards inside with us just in case so Kail starts elling saying let me just hit her one time. She knew she wouldn’t be able to touch me because all the guards were holding her back, so whatever. That ended and I was like wait til I see you again.”
She revealed that producers asked her to film a segment, but when she walked out onstage, “The only person I saw was Kail sitting down so I just ran up. Guards got to me. I slipped and fell trying to get over the table to get to Kail and then my sister got into it.”
She added, “I do know that my sister tried to stop me at first when I ran out on the stage, but then Kail started to talk sh*t to Brittany, so Brittany got upset. I don’t want anyone to think we tired to jump her, cause we didn’t.” But security got involved before she could see what else happened. “IDK what else happened/what my sister did, cause I didn’t get to see cause I got tackled by security.”
Apparently, Briana was very upset. After this all went down, Briana walked off stage and refused to film anything else. She got the next flight home that weekend and told Production she quit the show. She didn’t show up Sunday to film the reunion and has been back home in Florida since Sunday,” a source revealed to HollywoodLife.com.
Homebody
Fans were quick to chime in about the wild events of the reunion. “Why [Brittany] even has a spot at this reunion is a good question. She’s on here like a f*cking third runner up for a pageant. She has no place on Teen Mom and is always causing issues. Tell her and her mother to stay away and out of her daughter’s spotlight and do something on your own,” suggested reddit user Floflo80. Others like chrissycakes8726 pinned more of the drama on Kaiyln. “So people are still defending Kail and saying Briana started this? It clearly says Kail tried to corner Briana backstage and telling her to ‘get up,’” they pointed out. “The f*ck? No one tells someone to get up just to talk!!! She was definitely trying to "throw hands" I'm sure. That's probably why Brittany chose to go after her because she probably heard that Kail tried to go after her sister.”
But user Alberoba disagreed. “If a person I have beef with had been talking sh*t on social media about how she was going to do this and that to me...yeah, I would confront her and tell her to get up. Let's see what you have to say or do now that we are in the same place. OF COURSE, Bri did nothing, she is a punk. Fight the battles you instigate, girl.”
Drama-loving fans can’t wait until the reunion airs on MTV to see exactly what went down, but there’s one other cast member who missed out on everything: Jenelle. She wasn’t in attendance during the reunion at all!
“Jenelle refused to go to New York without David, and MTV refused to pay for him to go with her,” a source explained to Radar Online. But Jenelle is apparently too important for MTV to pass up, so they came to her. “Dr. Drew is filming with her at home in North Carolina,” the source explained, adding, “They’re still not filming with David.”
Ironically, Jenelle’s mother Barbara and her first born son Jace made the trip up to New York for the reunion. Apparently, Jenelle’s refusal to play ball with MTV is not appreciated.
“Jenelle is the network’s worst nightmare right now,” the show insider spilled to Radar. “They’re not happy with her at all. Even the Viacom president knows about her situation.”
Odd Romances
And the behind-the-scenes drama goes even further. On top of fighting with Briana and Brittany, Kailyn seems to be hinting at even more revenge against her nemesis. Fans were shocked when Kailyn revealed she was spending some quality time with Briana’s baby daddy after the show.
“When you’re the last ones on set & the entire weekend has been a sh*tshow,” Kailyn captioned this shot of herself hanging out with her friend bone and Briana’s first baby daddy, Devoin! Is Kailyn just trying to start more fights with Briana?
“Baby daddy number 4, I’m calling it now,” wrote reddit user slowdancequeen. User SarahTheMascara replied, “Oh man Kail with Bri’s baby daddy and visa versa. Their kids would be very entangled and confused siblings. Maybe they could start an mtv version of sister wives.” User courtines agreed, “Honestly, I’d not be shocked. She talks on her podcast about wanting to have more kids. I guess I don’t really care one way or the other, because as much as I don’t care for Kail, she has (apparently) well behaved and happy kids that seem to be well taken care of.”
This is pretty ironic, considering that Kailyn recently seemed to hint that she was spending time with her own baby daddy!
Dinner Date
“My friend took me out to lunch with the boys and then Chris took the baby to see his mom,” Kailyn informed Lindsie in the most recent episode of her podcast, Coffee Convos. “Then I went to dinner.”
Lindsie asked, “You went to dinner? Who did you go to dinner with?!”
Kailyn simply responded, “it’s someone. I went to Melting Pot for dinner and then…” but Lindsie cut her off, demanding to know who Kailyn’s date was! Kailyn told her that if she could guess who took her to dinner correctly, Kailyn would confirm it.
“I’m going to guess Chris took you to the Melting Pot? Chris seems like someone who would like to go to the Melting Pot.” Kailyn responded, “Really?! He doesn’t even know what that is!”
Lindsie quickly caught on to Kailyn’s attempt to change the subject. “So it wasn’t Chris?”
“Maybe!” Kailyn responded cryptically. “I’m not answering it!”
Lindsie was happy to pull together the pieces. “Okay, so everyone… Kail went to the Melting Pot with Chris on Mother’s Day!” Kailyn laughed and said, “Lindsie, why are you starting rumors?!”
According to Lindise, she could tell that Kailyn was hiding something and that her theory was right. The two laughed about it, but Kailyn never denied that she was with Chris on Mother’s Day!
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