Crew Reveals the Most Alarming ‘Teen Mom’ Behind-the-Scenes Behavior

Tough Love

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Farrah Abraham has been living with her father Michael in recent months, but before this, she was living in a sprawling Austin home. Apparently, she took such pride in her home that she put up some pretty intense rules for the crew members in place. In fact, at one point, she refused to even let crew members use the restrooms in her home — and that’s just the beginning.

“She got rid of the Porta-potty and still didn’t let the crew use her bathroom so they had to drive down the street to use the bathroom,” a crew member told The Ashley’s Reality Roundup. “There weren’t any public restrooms nearby either, so if you had to go to the bathroom, it kind of halted everything. And Farrah was very strict on that rule; there was no budging her even for an emergency.”

One crew member got the sense Farrah had no respect for them. “The fact of the matter is that she viewed the crew of Teen Mom as people who were ‘less than’ her, plain and simple,” another crew member told the outlet. “We all respect the houses of the girls, but it’s kind of hilarious that the crew can not enter the home without their shoes off but Farrah’s horse is allowed in the foyer!”

Call CPS

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The cameras can’t catch everything, and that means sometimes the girls’ living situations might look different than they really are. Apparently, one crew member was so upset by what they saw when filming Leah Messer’s home that they wanted to call Child Protective Services.

“Every shoot i would want to call CPS. filthy houses (dog poop on the floor, bloody tampons sitting in a corner for months, weeks old food everywhere, etc) one of the worst is Leah, filthiest person i've met,” a former crew member accused in a since-deleted “Ask Me Anything” thread on Reddit.

Getting Lucky

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According to this same crew member, it wasn’t totally uncommon for the crew to hit on the girls. In fact, he recalled one specific instance: “One crew member was caught in the hot tub at our hotel with one of the girls friends. He was promptly fired. They were in the tub. She asked for his age. He was 38. She started screaming and s**t hit the fan.”

One fan asked the crew member whether the show is scripted, and he said it was. “It's not scripted in the way a narrative would be but the storyline is heavily produced by the director,” he revealed. “It gets to the point where the director is feeding them lines.”

Totally Fake

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According to The Ashley in her book Teen Mom Confidential: Secrets & Scandals From MTV’s Most Controversial Shows, much of the girl’s major life events are staged. In fact, during the season 2 finale of Teen Mom 2, a scene where Kailyn and Jo had hooked up in the shower was allegedly totally fake.

"MTV wasn’t there [when Jo and I hooked up] but they tried to play it like they were,” Kail tells us. “They had us reenact it. The scene where I tell Jordan about cheating on him was reenacted. That’s why I was so cold hearted. Jordan already knew about it at that time, and we had already moved past it, but they made us reenact it and live through it again, and then again when it aired.”

Apparently, it made Kailyn consider quitting. “There was a point that I wanted to quit and rip up my contract because of the way they treated me,” she revealed in The Ashley's book.

Crew Lies?

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In some ways, MTV seems to intervene with filming a lot, but there are times they are accused of being too hands-off. For example, when they aired footage of Ryan Edwards driving to his own wedding while high, fans wanted to know why they didn’t intervene.

“The reason the producers didn’t stop Ryan from driving after he was seen nodding off is because the producers would not have been able to see him nodding off,” a crew member told The Ashley. “That footage (and almost all car footage) is captured on Go-Pro cameras installed on the dashboard. We do not have a live feed to watch the cast in their car, despite what some viewers think. We do not have live eyes on them the whole time we’re filming them.”

This seemed like a good enough explanation, but many fans have since questioned whether this is true. After all, crew members have interacted with the cast while they were driving in the past, such as when they overheard Chelsea announcing Watson’s gender — and immediately spoke to her over a speaker in the car.

Baby Bonus

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Of course, of all of the Teen Mom rumors, one of the most common is the “baby bonus” theory. Many fans believe that cast members get paid more for each pregnancy they have. There was no evidence of this… until very recently.

Farrah Abraham’s ex boyfriend Simon Saran added some validity to the rumors when he accused MTV for dishing out for Amber’s pregnancy. “Poor Amber had to get knocked up for [executive producer Morgan J. Freeman]’s financial gain! How sad! It’s like a breeding mill over at #TeenMomOG,” he tweeted.

Icky Relationships

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That’s far from the only such accusation that Simon has made against Morgan J. Freeman. He has even accused Morgan of sleeping with the cast members!

When Morgan J. Freeman wrote a political tweet, he probably didn’t expect it to end like this. “Must really get under [President Donald Trump]’s skin that Obama’s tweets easily double if not triple his in likes and retweets," the producer wrote. Simon replied, “Yes. I am sure he will lose sleep over it. He will probably cry himself to sleep tonight, or sleep with one of his cast members.”

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