Bristol Palin came off sounding pretty damn rotten in her ex-husband Dakota Meyer‘s version of the story of their oldest daughter’s birth…and Bristol is not happy about it!
Days after her ex blasted her on social media, the new Teen Mom OG star ran to the tabloids to tell her side of the story.
As The Ashley previously reported, Dakota took to Instagram earlier this week to slam Bristol for not allowing him to be at the hospital when she delivered their oldest daughter, Sailor.
In Dakota’s version of events, a pregnant Bristol dumped him weeks before they were due to get married, and refused to allow him to be a dad to Sailor until a paternity test proved (in the words of Maury Povich) he IS the father. (For the record, Dakota is also the father of their younger daughter, Atlee.)
Dakota also claimed that Bristol never informed him of Sailor’s birth, and that he had to find out about it on Twitter.
Bristol denied Dakota’s claims in a new interview with Radar Online.
“I turn my other cheek on a lot of things, and I will continue to do so because my children deserve parents who respect each other,” Bristol told the site. “For Dakota Meyer to say that he found out about the birth of our daughter on Twitter, is absolutely not true.”
(You know Bristol means business because she’s using Dakota’s full name!)
“I will not stand by and allow false, evil information such as this to be printed for our daughter to see one day,” Bristol said.
Bristol claimed that, after she ditched Dakota before tying the knot, he told her not to contact him anymore (despite the fact that he knew she was pregnant with his child). Bristol claims that she still reached out to Dakota when she was around 12 weeks pregnant to let him know that they were having a girl, and inform him of the due date.
“I did not hear from him again until a couple of days before my due date when I received a letter stating that he had the tools and that he expected to be a custodial parent,” Bristol said. “He told me he wanted a 50/50 agreement on our unborn baby. As most concerned mothers would, I froze.
“I had just gone through nine months of pregnancy without the support, or even acknowledgment from Dakota,” Bristol added.
Bristol claims that Dakota never reached out to her about attending the birth, and she didn’t contact him because she was respecting his wishes for her not to contact him anymore. She stated that her father did, however, keep in contact with Dakota.
“[My dad] let Dakota know that I was in labor,” Bristol told Radar. “I sent Dakota a picture of our newborn baby girl right after she was born and did not get a response. My father also sent him a picture of Sailor Grace.”
Bristol admits, though, that one part of Dakota’s story is true: she did, indeed, tell him to go through the court to establish paternity, something she says she regrets saying.
“My heart was quickly changed the second I laid eyes on our beautiful baby girl,” Bristol said. “My heart broke knowing our baby did not have a father present and, at that moment I realized the completely unnecessary mistake I had made of telling him to go through the court system.”
Bristol said that Dakota wanted to legally establish paternity and did not meet Sailor until he had been given legal visitation with her.
Despite all the “he said, she said” nonsense, Bristol admits that Dakota is “an outstanding father.”
“I hope our relationship can get to a better place soon,” she added.
For now, though, the demise of Dakota and Bristol’s marriage is playing out on this season of ‘Teen Mom OG,’ which is currently airing on MTV.
(Photos: MTV, Instagram)
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I don’t like her or Dakota. I thought I would but she seems fridgid and cold. I thought I wouldn’t like Cory and Cheyenne but I love them. Cory is so funny and sweet. You can’t help but root for them.
Bristol seems kinda boring.
She’s very monotone when talking
Not a big fan of her or the other new 1
I seem to remember her refusing to let him have his daughter overnight because she refused to pump milk or allowed sailor to have formula. Even though he wanted to have more time with her.
I can relate with her very much. My ex husband is a combat veteran. He was deployed to Afghanistan four times. Every time he came home his face looked like it aged years. Before we divorced, I swear I looked 10 years younger than him, yet we are the same age. With my Ex it didn’t matter what I said or did, it was either not enough or I was hovering. He was just never the same person. The way he would twist things I’d say were heart wrenching. Something like maybe you should look at getting help for what you are feeling inside was twisted into my wife thinks I’m a crazy lunatic. There were never the right words and eventually for our children I had to do what was right and end the marriage. The mental aspect of a relationship with someone like this is so draining. Especially when that person can say what they want and put the blame on something else and twist your words to fit their narrative. I can tell just by looking at Bristol’s body language that it was the same cycle my ex and I went through. You feel like you are walking on egg shells just to try and not say the wrong thing and when he’s in a depressive state it will always be the wrong thing. Once I accepted it would never work, I felt incredibly free and healthy again.
Cant imagine how hard that must have been for you! My stomachs dropped just reading this. Hope you’re doing well now ♡ I have some family members who’s depression operates that same way, where no matter what you say it’s wrong and you just wait out the day to see how I get screamed at for any imagined slight ?
Can’t stand her but may I say, love the fridge, kept hoping she would move so I could see more of it.
The Samsung smart fridge. Jealous. Haha
This garbage is so pathetic!
Her and Him are playing the part…get those ratings guys! #TeemMom but I have to say..I’m enjoying there story line. Bye bye Farrah ?
Petty petty spite spite. Aren’t these people embarrassed to have all this garbage on social media forever for their kids to read that mommy didn’t want daddy around oh wait no daddy didn’t want us….. sad just plain sad and mtv thinks this is entertainment?! This girl is making $250k on this dumpster fire. I can’t even.
So after all of that, she decided to give it another go and have another child by him? Hmm
It’s amazing the kinds of relationships people think they can “make work”, based on their long track record of failing to make relationships work
Right?! Some people are like “Well, we couldn’t make it work the first time but maybe second time’s the charm!” The only ones I feel bad about here are the kids, Dakota and Bristol are SUPPOSED to be adults and act like one!