Catelynn Lowell is seemingly done defending her longtime friend and Teen Mom co-star Amber Portwood.
During a Live with YouTubers Elle Bee and Rei Clarke last week, Catelynn opened up about the state of her relationship with Amber, as well as Amber’s current state of mind, both of which are not in good shape, according to Cate.
“I think she’s manic,” Catelynn said. “I’m telling you right now, she is not well…deep down, I know for a fact she’s sick.”
Catelynn stated that she has attempted to help Amber, who seems to spend the bulk majority of her days ranting and fighting on TikTok Live.
“There’s been numerous times in this journey where I have talked to Amber privately, and I’ve said, ‘Girl, I think that you really need to go somewhere. I think you need to go to an inpatient treatment facility,’” Catelynn said. “Just this past May that passed, when we were still filming [‘Next Chapter’], I reached out to her and I was like, ‘Do you like living your life like this? Are you happy?’”
Catelynn stated that she told Amber that she would even accompany her to an inpatient rehab facility.
“I was like, ‘Let’s go. I will fly with you, I will take you there. I feel like it would benefit you so much,’” Catelynn said. “And she always just denies it, so I’m just kind of at the point now where I’m like, ‘You know you’re not happy fully. You know that there’s stuff that you could work on to help you get there. I’m sick of just, I don’t know, bringing it up and you don’t want to better yourself. So, I’m just kind of like— I take a step back— and I’m just like, ‘Well…whatever.’”
Catelynn, Elle and Rei discussed how Amber’s life is currently on “repeat,” consisting of her staying up seemingly for days while on TikTok Live ranting about things including her ‘Teen Mom’ co-stars, her baby daddy
Gary Shirley and his wife Kristina, and MTV in general.
As ‘Teen Mom’ fans are aware, Amber has been diagnosed with multiple mental health disorders, which she claims to take medication for. However, Catelynn feels that this is not enough to help Amber.
“Medicine is not the fix for it all,” she said. “It’s a stepping stone to fix it but you have to go to talk therapy…Medicine, yeah, it’s a step in the right direction but you have to dig down deep to be like, ‘Where does this all come from? Why do I act the way that I do?’”
“…I think she just needs serious, intense inpatient treatment therapy, for sure,” Catelynn added of Amber.
During the Live, Catelynn also indicated that she’s upset that Amber continues to bash her and their co-star
Maci Bookout, as they have both been extremely supportive of Amber publicly and privately for years— something she and Maci have both caught a lot of flak for.
“You want to go online and talk crap about me and Maci when we’ve been the two people that have literally tried to help you this whole time,” Catelynn said. “We have tried to show you like, ‘Hey, this is what you could do if you want to do better.’ So, I’m kind of over it…I think it gets annoying when you see that someone could benefit from it so much and they know deep down that they would too, and they just don’t want to do it for themselves.
“I’m wiping my hands,” Cate added.
As The Ashley told you in March, Amber went off on Cate and Maci during a TikTok Live rant, flipping them off on-camera and implying that they were bad friends to her.
Days later, Amber was back on TikTok Live apologizing to Maci and Catelynn and explaining that she thought they were siding with her nemesis Gary
over the situation with Amber’s estranged daughter Leah. By May, though, things seemed to once again be volatile between the trio, with Amber claiming on TikTok Live that Maci and Cate “turned on her” for money. (Amber claimed later that month that she had made up with Catelynn and stated that Cate was still very supportive of her, though she didn’t reveal the state of her relationship with Maci.)
During the Live last week, Catelynn also addressed recent claims made on TikTok Live by her co-star and former (?) friend Amber Portwood. As The Ashley told you, Amber has been squawking that her quitting the show earlier this year is the reason ‘Next Chapter’ got cancelled, and that she played a large part in the ‘Teen Mom’ cast “losing their jobs.”
“All of that is not factual,” Catelynn said of Amber’s claims. “She’s not the one paying the bigwigs that ran our show who are still there getting paid.”
Quick on the heels of famously sassy, phrase-turning R&B singer and reality TV star Tamar Braxton’s announcement her recently released album, “Bluebird of Happiness,” will be her last — at least for a while — and news that her husband, music executive husband Vincent Herbert, founder of Streamline Records, was legally ordered to pay Sony more than $3.7 million to settle a lawsuit over a 2013 advance, the couple hoisted their grandly proportioned and glamorously appointed Mediterranean mansion in Calabasas, Calif., up for sale at $15 million.
The Herbert-Braxtons, married in late 2007 after about five years together, purchased the 13,716-square-foot mansion inside the double-gated Estates at The Oaks enclave in April 2013 for $10.5 million and public records show since then there have been several notices of default filed and subsequently canceled against the two-acre spread that provides a total of seven bedrooms and nine full and two half bathrooms between the main house and poolside guesthouse.
Wrought iron and glass front doors open to an entry vestibule and foyer with black and white floral-patterned inlaid floor and a floating, wrought iron railed staircase that curves up to the bedrooms on the second floor. The main living and entertaining space makes a great sweep across the rear of the residence with gleaming wide-plank hardwood floors laid in a classy chevron pattern.
A central gallery with glossy grand piano is flanked to one side by a lounge with semi-circular sofa in front of an ornate fireplace and to the other by a “champagne bar” modeled after The Dorchester Hotel in London with tufted velvet sofas and a stately wood-paneled ceiling.
Arched French doors open the vast space to an immense, stone-paved loggia with retractable canvas shade awnings and a bowling alley-length dining table that easily seats at least two-dozen al fresco diners. With elaborately carved cabinetry, granite countertops and a super-sized commercial-style range under a hand-hammered copper hood, the kitchen is open to a spacious informal dining area that, in turn, opens to a family room with fireplace and French doors to the backyard.
The three-story mansion’s creature comfort also include a home theater, a game room, an office, a wine cellar with tasting room and, unsurprisingly, a recording studio along with an elevator, an camera-equipped security system, a gentlemen’s lounge with authentic barber chair, a mirror-walled gym and a subterranean parking garage that will accommodate over a dozen cars. The mansion makes a U-shaped embrace around a broad and grassy courtyard with swimming pool and spa beyond which a soccer pitch-sized lawn gives way to a panoramic view over rugged ravines and undeveloped mountaintops.
Some of the other, equally sized and similarly luxurious estates in The Estates sections of The Oaks are owned by reality television’s Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian, Michael Jackson’s mother Katherine Jackson, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and Jay McGraw, elder son of extraordinarily well-compensated TV therapist Dr. Phil McGraw, and his Playboy model wife Erica Dahm.