Levi Johnston On Tyra Show: Talks Bristol Break-Up, Drug And Cheating Rumors (VIDEO)

MORE TYRA VIDEO HERE: Levi's family members say they're living a "nightmare," discuss their interactions with the McCain campaign, and receiving an ovation for not taking money for their appearance.

Levi Johnston's interview with Tyra Banks aired on Monday. Early on, Levi explained that he had decided to "break his silence" about his split with Bristol Palin to counter negative stories about himself in the news.

Levi Johnston: I have seen a lot of stuff, read a lot of things in the newspapers and news and it's time we get our story out there. I have seen a lot of stuff saying I've done steroids and drugs and cheated on Bristol and that kind of thing, and it's not true.

Tyra Banks: What does it feel to read those things about you that are lies?

Johnston: It's ridiculous how someone could come up with a lot of things like that. But at the same time it's kind of funny, they ain't got nothing better to do than pick on young kids.

Asked to clarify why he and Bristol had actually broken up, Johnston said, "I think it it was after we had had the baby, things got a lot complicated. We started fighting. we just wouldn't seeing eye to eye with each other anymore and we thought it would be better to be friends and try to work things out this way."

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Johnston also told Tyra that he might go to court for custody of his child. "I can come see the baby and that kind of thing but [Bristol] won't let me take him anymore," Johnston said. "You can't take the baby out of the Palin house?" Tyra asked. Johnston responded, "Not very often, no." The host asked if he had custody of Tripp." "We haven't gone to court," Johnston said. Asked if he thought he might end up going, he said, "I think it's probably looking like it. We didn't want it to go that way."

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MORE TYRA VIDEO HERE: Levi's family members say they're living a "nightmare," discuss their interactions with the McCain campaign, and receiving an ovation for not taking money for their appearance.

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[independentjukebox]

There are days I'm EMBARRASSED for my fellow democrats . We DEMS can be the mirror image of our republican counterparts.

Look - most of you are looking at this and passing judgement through pure political eyes. Your hatred for all things sarah is clouding your common sense and sensibilities. Theykids made an error in judegment but Levi , I dare say is not like over 99% of kids in his age - that would shirk and run away from responsibilities. Only being 18 he is, from all I heard, and confirmed by both families, a good kid who is owning up to his responsibility.

The question I have is- why is everyone looking backwards and not forward. what do you think is the best case for this child? a broken family to staisfy everyones -- ha ha I told you so? ...

here you ahve a dad and yes with complexities of both family personalities - but you ahve stepping up to the bat. You disdian for all things plain and people associated with them ( past/ present)- is making your look contrive, shallow and dare say cold . You should take step back folks and show some maturity.

[kkg58]

ummm... levi's momma blames the media for the problems? correct me if I am wrong, but haven't levi's momma been arrested for drug peddling? or is that somebody else in this crazy soap opera? sheesh ... can you imagine if this bunch of snowbillies were anywhere near our white house?

[Jack Straw]

The biggest irony is how Palin criticized Levi for taking advantage of the situation and trying to profit off of it. Isn't that exactly what she did when she dragged his poor ass out of Alaska to go to a McCain campaign stop.

Sarah is such a hypocrite.

[Begrateful]

I don't feel sorry for Levi, Mercedes or their mother. This is a dysfunctional family- - mother was arrested for drugs, tatoo of wrist (I love my brother but not enough for his name to be tatooed on my wrist), his lack of responsibility towards fatherhood. Bristol Palin is also clueless, which is why its easy for her ambitious mother to rule her life. Nope, I don't feel any sympathy at all -- only sadness for Tripp. He's another child (like many) who will be brought up in a very dysfunctional enviroment. My prayers go out to you little boy.

[skantea]

Some how this may turn out to be a good thing for high school couples to see.
It's not just us old people saying it won't last, it's your peers as well.

[cu]

One of my mom's sayings was "You make your bed....you lie in it". Maybe the 2 parents need to move away from their parents' homes and try to take care of their child together, in one household.

Levi is darling. He is a simple guy from a small town. He and his family have no power compared to the Governor. He has to go on national TV to have any voice against that machine. It is too bad that he and his family have to go to those lengths to get time with the new baby.

Bristol needs to share the parenting with the FATHER, not her family. If she was big enough to make the decision to have a child, she should be big enough to share him with his father. She and her family acted like he was fine when it suited her mother's ambitions at the convention. To ostracize him now that the baby is born is un-Christinan-like.

[wyldthings]

I can not believe that in order to destroy a political opponent we would listen to an 18 year old boy and I do mean boy! What ever happened to lets not get into the privacy of one's bedroom. And please I don't care if Republicans do it. I remember the outrage when Limbaugh called Chealsey Clinton ugly. Now you have a boy telling about the sex life of not Gov. Palin but her 19 year old daughter. People can only try to instill certain values in their children, you and I might disagree with abstanence but her parents do. So If I teach my daughter and son to practice safe sex and he gets HIV, am I at fault. If you want to destroy a politician lets not stoop to this level!

[Jack Straw]

@wyldthings

You don't need to listen to an 18yo boy to bring her down. You just need to listen to her own words to know that she needs to be brought down and cast into the "sorry, we don't like your ideas" unelected wasteland.

[bb1234]

At least they weren't doing cocaine and counseling drug abusers, now that would be a story!

[tierone]

Wouldn't it be? I mean, if it were TRUE and all. Pesky truth thingies!

[theunhappydem]

WHY NO PICTURES OR STORY ABOUT BIDEN'S DAUGHTERS COCAIN USE?

[kburlz]

Dude, you had to know the condom question was coming. What's with the hedging?

[skantea]

He doesn't know anything, he still talks like a 12 year old.

[Madcitychick]

I think the purpose of the interview was to send a message to the Palin's with regard to their access to the baby. The pictures shown on Tyra and provided by Levi's family are pics of Levi with Baby #1 - Trig, not of him and Tripp baby #2.

See the comparison and details here. This is certainly why Sarah and Meg (who by the way Sarah recently stated doesn't work for the gov's office, but instead SarahPAC - yet the early response to Levi's interview was sent on stationary from the Gov's office - Sarah can't seem to figure out those dany pesky ethics rules) blew this out of proportion in the press release issued on Friday - before they'd even seen what Levi had to say. He was quite easy on the Palin family, but the pictures are a message that the secrets won't stayed buring forever if they aren't allowed fair & equal access to Tripp.

http://www.palindeception.com/blog/

[zoozey]

Not impressed by either side in this tawdry issue. I just don't feel compelled to feel all pity-party over Levi and his bunch; nor do I EVER feel compelled to take the side of Car.ibo.u Ba.rb.ie.

Invariably, it is often the woman (who bore the child) who "grows up" in these situations. So I will not diss Bristol if she feels overprotective about the baby and doesn't want Levi "leaving the house" with an infant...

It was fine for Sarah to embrace Levi and the Johnsons when she was forcing the old conservative "value" of "well, theyr'e getting married, so everything is o.k."

But now Sarah is deciding to extricate herself from them because of her 2012 bl.ind. ambition. She is a big old parody. America, this will be the First Family Jerry Springer show you will get if this woman is elected. Compare to the Obamas, if you will.........

[hoodoomeatbucket]

that's pretty sexist to suggest that a father is somehow incapable of taking his own child, infant or not, for private visitation.

[skantea]

That guy would leave the kid on the roof of the car and drive off thinking about PS2.

[isadora]

Saint Sarah's defenders are a sad lot. Her response to her non-son-in-law's statements show clearly that what progressives have thought of her is true and more. This woman airs her personal vendettas loudly and widely when she is not hyping herself as a glamorous moral angel. Guess she still thinks she can hide the way thing really are with her children like her daughter hid daughter's pregnant stomach by holding the conservative prop baby in front of her during the intial family intro at the republicans' family values and gun festival (convention).

[earthbelowus]

Although she is young, Bristol must come to understand that when you break up with someone you must come to terms with the fact that they might and will go out with someone else, even one of those pesky exes of his that you hate. They might get married and have children with someone else as well.

[indy girl]

Not to mention, when you have a child with someone, even if you hate him a year later, he still has a right to help parent that child. (Something to consider BEFORE you have that wardrobe malfunction over and over for months!)

Watch for the Palins to try and claim levi is a drug user and therefore should not have any access to Trig/Tripp­/Truck/Whi­chever baby is supposedly his. Even if he has used illegal drugs, Bristol seems to have been quite a partier herself. If Levi gets hung out to dry I expect pics of Party Bristol will start to mysteriously appear.

I hope the whole classy bunch of them ends up in court and paternity testing. Ever time one of them opens their mouths and starts yammering, Sarah's chances of being anything more politically important than governor of alaska fade further away.

[solarflares]

Washed-up lingerie model chats with a functional illiterate. Wow. I hope Charlie Rose is taking notes.

[skantea]

She's no worse than anybody else on television.
which isn't saying much.

[Vyvjala]

The Palin household makes the, "Married with Children's Bundys," look like the Waltons.

[vimmryan]

Palin and her clan remind me of the Clampetts "Next thing you know old Jed's a millionaire"