Bristol Palin was so drunk on wine coolers the night she first slept with boyfriend Levi Johnston that she couldn’t recall losing her virginity at the tender age of 15 — and he was nowhere to be found the hazy morning after to refresh her memory.
“Levi wasn’t even there to help me process — or even confirm my greatly feared suspicions,” she writes in a new revenge tome disguised as a memoir. “Instead of waking up in his arms, I awakened in a cold tent alone.”
Despite the guilt she felt after that night she spent camping with her friends and boyfriend in the woods of Point MacKenzie 2006 she continued to have sex with the 16-year-old hockey-playing hunk. They used condoms, she claims, but she still got pregnant.
“I wasn’t drunk, it wasn’t an accident, and I did it on purpose,” she writes about the subsequent sleepovers.
Levi wasn’t exactly thrilled when she broke the news to him they were having a baby in 2008. She shared the news with him before her telling her mother.
“Better be a f—king boy,” he snapped.
Her parents were far more supportive. She and Johnston told her parents on the night of her mother’s own baby shower. Sarah Palin had just given birth to Trig, who had Down syndrome.
“You’re joking,” her mother said when she first heard. But when she saw her daughter’s tears, she knew it was true. Bristol alleges that her mother had no clue that she had an active sex life.
“Well, I think we should get married,” Palin said.
While Sarah Palin nodded, her father was more hesitant. “Let’s not rush in to things,” he said. Her father was right to be worried.Johnston had few paternal instincts from the get-go. When doctors asked him to cut baby Tripp’s cord, he backed away saying it was “too gross.” Her mama grizzly stepped in to do the honors instead.
One of the first night back from the hospital, Palin found a text message in Johnston’s phone from his sister. It said, “She had fun and wants to hook up with you again.”
He cheated on her openly, she claims in the book “Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far” (William Morrow) out Tuesday. Even coming home with hickeys on his neck from drunken, late-night encounters, she writes.
They were on and off again for the length of their baby’s toddler years. While Palin was raising Tripp, Johnston was posing for GQ and Playgirl using their own son as currency.
“Puke,” she writes, when she found out that Johnston had posed for Playgirl (it’s a common phrase she uses to describe Johnston).
Before her “Dancing with the Stars” debut, Bristol reunited with Johnston in July 2010, posing on the cover of US Weekly announcing their plans for marriage. As a result, her parents, who she said always disliked Johnston, cut her out of the reality TV show “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.”
“They say you can’t be trusted,” her brother Track told her.
That evening Johnston arrived with news.
“I might’ve gotten someone pregnant,” he said.
The baby was due in two weeks. Later, she learned that Johnston named the baby Bentley, a name she had first wanted to name Tripp. This was the final straw, she writes.
For all the vitriol against her ex, Bristol goes soft on her mother, who is portrayed as a supportive and down-to-earth “cool” mom who stood by her even when her bad-boy babydaddy was harming the family’s image. That the former Alsaka governor signed on to be Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s running mate without consulting her pregnant teenage daughter first is barely mentioned.
Along with the memoir, Palin has also reportedly signed on to star in her own reality TV series with Kyle Massey, a fellow Dancing with the Stars contestant and Disney actor. Palin is rumored to be dating the actor.
Johnston will have the last word. He plans to release his own tell-all, “Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs,” in the fall.