Teen Mom Confidential: Secrets & Scandals From MTV's Most Controversial Shows (9 page)

To keep the bill collectors at bay, Kim often juggled multiple jobs, leaving little time to spend with her young children. Tyler acted out; often getting into fights at school, disrespecting authority and even earning his first suspension in the second grade.

“If he was bad and got kicked out of school for a couple of days I would take him to work with me,” Butch says. “I owned a fence company and I would work 12, 14, 16 hours a day. And I would make him come work for me. I would pay him, but he didn't know he was getting paid. He would be so tired. He hated it. He rebelled a lot. He reminds me of me when I was a kid. Lookin' for attention, I assume.”

Butch holds himself partly responsible for Tyler's childhood aggression and antics. “I would think [it stems] from my absence,” he tells us. “I am a parent. You know, when your kids act up, you blame yourself. I wasn't there to man him up. His mother did a damn good job. But she was kind of naive. My daughter got raped when she was eight or nine years-old. I was in prison. So she blamed it on me. [Kim] had a boyfriend that raped my daughter.”

The family was forced to move numerous times as money troubles mounted and Tyler continued to yearn for stability. “Before school even started, I was kicked out of all my day cares, and babysitters could not control my erratic behavior,” Tyler admitted in an online posting. “My constant need for attention led me to act out as a child.”

At age eight, Tyler watched as his father was tackled by police and thrown to the ground while being arrested. “All I could do was watch and cry as they took him away from me…again,” he recounted. “I chased the cop car down the street until finally collapsing to my knees, and hyperventilated with tears streaming down my cheeks. Amber picked me up and we cried in the middle of the street, watching the cop car disappear in the distance for what seemed like eternity. That's when my life turned around for the worst.”

CATELYNN & TYLER’S SECRET DRUG ARREST – REVEALED!

Their secret is out!

Catelynn and Tyler were arrested for “Controlled Substance Use of Marijuana” just six days after the birth of their daughter Carly. The bust - which went down on May 25, 2009 - occurred while the young couple was still filming scenes for Catelynn's episode of
16 and Pregnant
. But it was never mentioned on the air or in the media - until now!

According to court records, the young stoners were arrested by the Marine City Police Department, fingerprinted and read their rights. Two months later, both pled guilty to the charge and each paid $253.00 in fines.

“As far as I know, they don't do any other drugs,” Tyler's father, Butch Baltierra tells us. “But he does drink. He does party and he does smoke a lot of marijuana.”

Of course, none of this partying ever made it onto TV, Butch says, because the producers and editors worked hard to hide anything that could be considered negative from the viewers.

Farrah Abraham was sobbing uncontrollably in the living room of her Hollywood, Florida apartment. Tissue in hand, the 19 year-old single mom recounted for neighbor Alethea Montante - who she had known for just a few short months - the heartbreaking story of how her only true love died two years earlier in a horrific car wreck. Then... “Ok, we're good!” a voice boomed from the background. “Awesome,” Farrah responded, flashing a smile. “Let's go shopping!”

Farrah - a self-described “actress, author, commercial model, culinary professional, entrepreneur, professional speaker, and philanthropist” - has also become a master at the art of manipulation, Alethea believes: “As soon as the cameras turned off, she would wipe her tears and be totally fine. She would just fake cry for the cameras.”

Alethea and others who know Farrah privately describe her as a bossy diva, who would often pawn off daughter Sophia on friends. “How you see her act on camera isn't even close to how bad she is in person,” says Daniel Alvarez, who dated the aspiring model during the summer of 2011 and appeared on the fourth season of
Teen Mom
. “I don't watch a lot of TV, especially not reality shows. But I wish I had watched a few episodes of
Teen Mom
before I started dating her so I could have had a heads-up on how she really was! I think sometimes she might bring it out more and embellish some of her stories for the cameras, but for the most part that's her personality. They don't make her act like that.”

Alethea, a stay-at-home mom at the time, befriended her new next-door neighbor shortly after Farrah relocated from Iowa to attend The Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale in 2011. “I was outside one day and her dad, Michael, introduced himself to me,” she remembers. “He was telling me that he was worried about her living in Florida alone, so I invited him inside my house and we chatted for a while. I told him that if Farrah ever needed anything she could come over and knock on my door.”

But it wasn't Farrah that eventually turned up on her front step. Within days, Alethea says, she was approached by MTV producers and asked if she would be willing to appear on camera. “I didn't even really know her, but being around celebrities doesn't really faze me, so I said OK,” she recalls. “That night I did some research and read some stuff about her online that was pretty negative, about how she acts on the show and stuff. But when I met her, she was totally opposite of what I had read. She was actually really sweet. “

After just three days at the Hollywood Station apartment complex, Farrah asked if Alethea could look after Sophia for a few hours while she partied with some other neighbors at the pool. “I agreed, because she was young and I knew she would want to meet people and have some fun,“ she says. Little did Alethea know then that she would eventually end up watching Sophia around-the-clock, sometimes for days at a time. “On Teen Mom, they showed three different people watching Sophia, including me, but after a little while it had gotten to the point that I was watching Sophia all the time,” she says. “Sophia would be with me all day. She was like my second child. Farrah would drop her off in the morning and not pick her up until nighttime - or sometimes the next day. I felt for her, because she was alone and young so I watched Sophia for her.”

Daniel, who met the teen mom on a blind date, says he was horrified to watch as Farrah treated her daughter like a mere prop in her quest for fame. “When the cameras are there she's all about Sophia, but off camera she would dump her off to this lady that lived in her building with no heads up or anything,” he confirms. Making matters worse, Sophia often needed bathing “because she stunk and was dirty,” Alethea says. “But Farrah was a young mom so I gave her the benefit of the doubt. I would do everything for that little girl. I would bathe her, take her to the doctor, feed her. She was always with me.” And when Alethea wasn't babysitting, she was busy dodging requests from producers to appear on camera. “It became like a job for me because they were there so often,” she remembers. “Bright and early they would be there to film, even if I didn't have my makeup on yet.”

Several friends and neighbors have told us that Farrah was a terror for her production team, reducing one crewmember to tears and prompting another to walk off the job. “She would make them wait, and talk to them so horribly,” Alethea says. “Sometimes she would make them cry because she was so mean. One of the production people actually quit because she couldn't take Farrah anymore. She actually quit her job on the show because she didn't want to work with her anymore.”

Daniel says the crew following him was constantly changing: “She would tell me she fired them, but in reality it was them not wanting to work with her anymore.“ Things got so bad during the filming of his third date with Farrah, that Daniel claims one of the show's executive producers had to be called down from New York to take over for a producer who had gotten into a huge fight with the demanding star. “Farrah couldn't get along with the other producer,” he said. “I saw a lot of [production/camera] people come and go and that was only in a six week period!”

Alethea was also appalled at how Farrah treated the people who tailed her for up to eight hours a day. “She didn't like me talking to the crew,” she said. “She called them 'workers.' She told me, 'They work for me, I don't work for them!' She would get so mad when Michael and I would talk and MTV would film us. She would say to the production crew, 'Is this Michael's show or my show?'”

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“[Farrah] didn't like me talking to the crew. She called them 'workers.' She told me 'They work for me. I don't work for them.'”

- ALETHEA MONTANTE
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“If she was trying to talk to me about something, they would interject and ask her to elaborate or something, and she would just chew them out,” said Daniel. “I get that it's kind of a pain, but that's what you sign up for by going on the show.”

Farrah's treatment of the show's crewmembers mirrored the way she treated people in public, her former friends say. “Every time I was out with her she would either be making fun of someone or being mean to people,” said Alethea. “She actually told me one time, 'You need to stay fit because I don't like fat friends!'”

John Hidalgo, another resident of the Hollywood Station apartments, says Farrah frequently spoke of “screwing people over” and recalls one time she decided to “get revenge” on a neighbor named Adam, who she briefly dated during the fourth season of
Teen Mom
. “After they broke up, she got a condom and filled it with mayonnaise and put it on his doorknob,” he says. “She was always doing weird things like that, to prove that she was better than people.”