Former Reality TV Show Contestants Are Sharing Their Behind-The-Scenes Stories, And Holy Crap…..

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“I was on The Dr. Oz Show once. It was an episode about teen pregnancy. I thought it would be fun, so I agreed to be on the show. Basically, they wanted me to talk about my experience with a teenage pregnancy, and what I thought the impact of 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom had on me. My point in going on the show was that I thought it was irresponsible to blame a TV show for something as serious as teenage pregnancy, and that it gave parents an easy way to get out of dealing with the situation at hand. The producer and a cameraman came to my house and interviewed me for like four hours. In the end, it was about two minutes of footage in which I look like I’m completely bashing the TV shows and blame them for my getting pregnant. They actually edited out anything intelligent I said, and then PUT IT INTO DR. OZ’S LINES!!! I literally saw my opinions being used against me; it was very bizarre.”

“So they had me on stage with Maci, Kailyn, and Leah from Teen Mom, and for the first part of the segment, I was totally dumbfounded and completely nervous. I didn’t really defend my position well at all in my opinion until after the ‘commercial break’. The second half of the segment was what I was really proud of, and I got it together enough to clearly articulate what I was going to say, then when the show aired, they completely edited out the second half.

Another shitty thing was that they tried to give me lines, and the producer kept coming into the room where I was getting ready, repeating them to me over and over. When I was so nervous in the first half of the show, I ended up spitting out something dumb about prom that they kept telling me to say. I then found out that all the ‘Teen Moms’ had a copy of the lines that I was supposed to say, and Maci absolutely owned me on stage over the prom comment. It was really embarrassing.”

—wandering_sunshine