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Levi Johnston Dishes the Dirt on Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair

by Amy Judd | September 2, 2009 at 07:26 pm

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Levi Johnston is giving a tell-all, dishing the dirt interview on Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair, on newsstands nationwide on September 8th, and he seems to be holding nothing back.

Johnston explains what it was like to live in the Palin household and what happened behind the scenes of the 2008 Presidential campaign. Johnston, who is the father of daughter Bristol Palin's baby, lived with the Palins for two months after the election last year and paints a picture of Sarah that is not the hockey loving, adoring wife that she portrayed to the media.

The Palin house was much different from what many people expect of a normal family, even before she was nominated for vice president. There wasn’t much parenting in that house. Sarah doesn’t cook, Todd doesn’t cook—the kids would do it all themselves: cook, clean, do the laundry, and get ready for school. Most of the time Bristol would help her youngest sister with her homework, and I’d barbecue chicken or steak on the grill.

Levi Johnston says that Sarah was always worried about her image in the media even before she became John McCain's vice president candidate, and Levi claims she spoke to him about keeping Bristol's pregnancy a secret.

Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret—nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him. That way, she said, Bristol and I didn’t have to worry about anything.

Levi insists however, that he and Bristol said they would not let Todd and Sarah adopt him, and implies that Sarah was ashamed of Bristol for being pregnant.
He also speaks about after the campaign, and how Sarah was moody and how politics in Alaska didn't seem to excite her anymore.

a week or two after she got back she started talking about how nice it would be to quit and write a book or do a show and make “triple the money.” It was, to her, “not as hard.” She would blatantly say, “I want to just take this money and quit being governor.”

Click for a behind the scenes video of Levi Johnston's photoshoot for the Vanity Fair article

In this video he says how he would pose for Playgirl Magazine; wonder if that will be his next venture?

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J2B (not verified)

at 00:08 on September 3rd, 2009

interesting just how much stuff Palin tried to cover up, thank the Buddha she didn't win!

Roy C

at 03:58 on September 3rd, 2009

He is a putz, to use the East Coast Yiddish words I grew up on. He has no respect, and, of course, they were ashamed about the pregnancy. They should welcome their daughter being an idiot and taking up with one, a real celebrity and media whore as well, which is what he has proven himself to be.

Amy Judd

at 08:49 on September 3rd, 2009

I agree, why should he get a Vanity Fair article? All he has done is get a girl pregnant and then tell everyone who will listen all the sordid details about it, he's trying to extend his 15 mins of fame very far, that's for sure.

AlvarezGalloso

at 04:58 on September 3rd, 2009

It seems that everything is falling apart for Sarah Palin. Thanks for the article.

rng

at 09:03 on September 3rd, 2009

There is a tongue in cheek article in the Guardian today that says Palin has evoked the bad luck curse by criticizing the National Health Service and that this bad karma is her payback

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2009/sep/03/mckinsey-nhs-sarah-palin

a211423

at 11:58 on September 3rd, 2009

Follow the money: How much was Levi Johnston paid for this article. I am far from a supporter of Sarah Palin, but Mr. Johnston has debased himself in this expose of a family to which he belonged and his child still belongs. No matter what Sarah Palin's motivations were or are, his lack of judgement and betrayal are disturbing.