Current:Home > ContactBristol Palin Details “Gut-Wrenching” Way Her 15-Year-Old Son Tripp Told Her He Wanted to Live With Dad -WealthSync Hub
Bristol Palin Details “Gut-Wrenching” Way Her 15-Year-Old Son Tripp Told Her He Wanted to Live With Dad
View
Date:2025-04-15 08:53:48
Bristol Palin is sharing insight into a difficult time.
A little over a week after the reality star shared her son Tripp Johnston, 15, was moving back to Alaska to live with his dad Levi Johnston full-time, she explained how the teen revealed the news to her.
“He just texted me and was like, ‘Hey Mom, I’m not coming back,’” Bristol, 33, who lives in Texas with her and ex-husband Dakota Meyer’s daughters Sailor Grace, 8, Atlee Bay, 7, recalled on the Aug. 26 episode of Cheryl Burke’s Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans podcast. “At first I’m like, ‘I’m coming up to Alaska. We’re not doing this.’ I was so mad, so mad.”
Ultimately, the mother of three came around to her eldest child’s way of thinking, acknowledging that the move might be best for her active teen.
“It still is gut wrenching to me,” the Teen Mom OG alum, who welcomed her son when she was 18 years old, explained, “because it’s been just Tripp and I, and then I had my girls, but it’s always been Tripp and I. It’s changed the dynamic of so much.”
She continued, “It’s one of those things where he’s almost 16, he does need his dad and he needs that relationship. And he thinks this is best right now, and all I can do is just hope and pray that it is what’s best.”
Bristol, whose mom Sarah Palin and dad Todd Palin still live in Alaska, expressed an interest in having a second home in the northernmost state as she regularly visits.
“Selfishly, I’m just like, ‘I want him with me forever. He’s my best friend,’” she said of Tripp. “My kids are my whole world. But I can’t be selfish in that.”
First sharing the news in an Aug. 14 Instagram post, the Dancing With the Stars alum expressed how Tripp’s decision had greatly impacted her.
“This has been the hardest ‘first day of school’ yet with one of the biggest pieces of my heart missing,” she wrote at the time. “Tripp has decided to finish out high school in Alaska to be closer to his dad and our entire family.”
Watch E! News weeknights Monday through Thursday at 11 p.m., only on E!.veryGood! (85137)
Related
- Head of the Federal Aviation Administration to resign, allowing Trump to pick his successor
- Mongolia, the land of Genghis Khan, goes modern with breakdancing, esports and 3x3 basketball
- Savannah Bananas announce 2024 Banana Ball World Tour schedule, cruise
- EU summit to look at changes the bloc needs to make to welcome Ukraine, others as new members
- Charges tied to China weigh on GM in Q4, but profit and revenue top expectations
- Heavy rains and floods kill 6 people in Sri Lanka and force schools to close
- Stock market today: Asian benchmarks mostly rise in subdued trading on US jobs worries
- Donald Trump’s lawyers seek to halt civil fraud trial and block ruling disrupting real estate empire
- All That You Wanted to Know About She’s All That
- How to make sense of the country's stunningly strong job market
Ranking
- Paula Abdul settles lawsuit with former 'So You Think You Can Dance' co
- $1.4 billion jackpot up for grabs in Saturday's Powerball drawing
- Jay Cutler Debuts New Romance With Samantha Robertson 3 Years After Kristin Cavallari Breakup
- Winners and losers of 'Thursday Night Football': Bears snap 14-game losing streak
- What to watch: O Jolie night
- Kentucky had an outside-the-box idea to fix child care worker shortages. It's working
- How to make sense of the country's stunningly strong job market
- Troopers who fatally shot 'Cop City' protester near Atlanta won't face charges
Recommendation
Which apps offer encrypted messaging? How to switch and what to know after feds’ warning
Heavy rains and floods kill 6 people in Sri Lanka and force schools to close
Arnold Schwarzenegger has one main guiding principle: 'Be Useful'
TikToker Alix Earle Shares How She Overcame Eating Disorder Battle
Rolling Loud 2024: Lineup, how to stream the world's largest hip hop music festival
The Nobel Peace Prize is to be announced in Oslo. The laureate is picked from more than 350 nominees
Kentucky had an outside-the-box idea to fix child care worker shortages. It's working
An aid group says artillery fire killed 11 and injured 90 in a Sudanese city