Is Taylor Selfridge setting the record straight? Or desperately trying to save face?
On Tuesday night MTV pulled the Teen Mom OG star’s special and aired an episode of Catfish instead. Shortly afterward they released a statement officially cutting ties with the 25-year-old after a long relationship which included seasons of Are You The One and Ex On The Beach — all over the racist content of some tweets from 2012.
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They told E! News:
“MTV pulled ‘Teen Mom OG At Home: Cory & Taylor’s Baby Special’ from its Tuesday schedule and is ending our relationship with Taylor Selfridge in light of her past racist statements on social media. MTV strongly condemns systemic racism and stands with those raising their voices against injustice.”
Pretty unequivocal statement, right?
Only… Taylor is calling BS! She’s now claiming she didn’t get fired, despite the pretty public execution MTV just put on.
An insider spilled to Us Weekly on Thursday, saying Taylor is “really upset” with how things were handled. First, she feels betrayed by the network over their denouncement of her “past racist statements” considering they’d already privately moved past them. The source explained:
“She thought her past apologies both on-air and off had been accepted by the network.”
It certainly seemed that way after they showed her being confronted over the old Twitter content — in which she used the N-word and made disparaging comments about Black co-workers — way back in August 2019, nearly a full year ago. They didn’t fire her then, they just made it a subplot.
But the source says Taylor was even more struck by the company falsely claiming she was fired:
“She is saddened that MTV made it look like she was fired over these comments when in reality, she made the decision to leave Teen Mom a week ago to give her and her baby privacy.”
You can’t fire her, she quit! Checkmate, MTV!
But in all seriousness, Taylor’s position is that she left Teen Mom for more privacy? And yet she and BF Cory Wharton have a YouTube channel together on which they’re planning on airing the birth of their baby??
We’re not really sure we’re buying this. The first we heard of it was after MTV pulled her special, when the new momma said on her Instagram Stories:
“I made the decision last week to not film the next season of Teen Mom OG with Cory for the benefit of myself and my daughter. I don’t believe the reality TV lifestyle benefits me any further at this point in my life.”
Gurl, you can’t quit AFTER they fire you…
Also, it seems Cory didn’t get the memo on the PR spin, because in his own response to the news he seemed to think this was the network’s idea:
“Even though I have no ill-will against MTV, I am disappointed and saddened by their decision.”
Maybe he meant their decision to pretend to have fired his baby momma??
What do YOU think really happened??
[Image via MTV/YouTube.]
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