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Mercede Johnston is breaking out of her brother’s shadow as she appears in an alluring 4-page nude pictorial in Playboy’s September issue (issue on newsstands, online at www.playboydigital.com, and on i.Playboy.com Friday, August 12, with additional photos available atwww.playboy.com/mercede).
The 19-year-old, who’s known as “Sadie” to her friends, sat down with Playboy Contributing Editor George Gurley to dish about the famous Alaskan family that nearly became her brother’s in-laws. Following are selected quotes from her tell all:
On the Palin’s decision to thrust Levi into the spotlight in 2008: “Not once did Sarah contact us and say, ‘Is this okay?’ She literally took Levi from a hunting trip and flew him to the Republican convention. He didn’t have a choice. I don’t blame John McCain – this is all Sarah Palin. She didn’t have to announce on stage that Bristol was pregnant. She doesn’t care, as long as she’s going to the top. But it’s screwed my whole family up. Levi was a prop, and once they didn’t need him he was out the door.”
On Levi’s relationship with Bristol: “Levi was whipped like Todd, because Bristol is very manipulative. She’d use sex to get her way on many things.”
On Levi and Bristol’s reengagement in 2010: “I don’t think Bristol wanted to be with him whatsoever, not at all. It was all about her using her body to get Levi to retract his statements, and it worked…They only wanted them back together so they could control Levi, have him say he lied so no one would believe what he said and no one would believe Levi again…Everyone who knows Levi knows everything he said was true and then some.”
On Bristol’s pregnancy: “Bristol’s pregnancy wasn’t unexpected, an accident. She and Levi planned it. They were trying to conceive for months.”
On Bristol Palin: “Everything is about her, her, her. She has to have her own way. She’ll be supersweet and then she turns into the most evil person I’ve ever known …Honestly, she is the meanest person. I didn’t know someone could be so vindictive and evil …[She’s] a sociopath. She doesn’t think anything she could do or does is wrong.”
On the text message Bristol sent to Mercede a few Valentine’s Days ago: “[It said] ‘I hope it was worth it having Lenisha [one of Levi’s exes] at your house ’cause you’re never gonna f*cking see your nephew again, b*tch.’”
On the text message Bristol send to Levi around the same time: “[It said] ‘Ever since the moment I found out I was pregnant, I prayed to God you weren’t the father.’”
On her efforts to mend her relationship with Bristol: “I tried to make amends and say I’m sorry. I know I’ve done wrong and said some things. She’s done and said things too. But we’re adults, and for this little boy we need to at least be civil with each other. We don’t have to hang out or be friends. But she’ll just say, ‘F you. Don’t contact me ever again.’”
On Bristol’s plastic surgeries: “She’s had numerous surgeries on her face, her chin twice or three times…Before Tripp was born she had liposuction here and liposuction elsewhere – where, I’m not supposed to say because Levi made me promise. And she had something else done after Tripp was born.”
On Track Palin: “He would do a lot of drugs. He did OxyContin and mostly cocaine. He didn’t choose to go into the Army; he went there because his mom made him, to get him out of the way so when she was at the convention they wouldn’t know he does drugs and would think he was a patriot. It’s a front. It was all to get her son out of the way so it didn’t ruin her reputation.”
On Sarah’s political capabilities: “I think she’d have had a mental breakdown is she was elected [president]. As governor she quit on us. What does that say about her? Is she prepared to govern the whole country? Absolutely not. She can’t even answer Katie Couric’s questions.”
On whether or not Sarah is a good mother: “She’s never there for [her kids]. She doesn’t make her kids go to school. She’d rather parade them around and put on a show at book signings or conventions.”
On the truth about the Palins: “The truth about the Palins will come out…If everybody who truly knew the Palins would speak up, people would not still think Sarah’s a good person. But they’re afraid to because the Palins have so much money they could do almost anything.”
On finding a job in Wasilla: “It’s hard to get a job in this town because of the Palins. That’s one of the worst things to come of this whole ordeal. I’ve worked since I was 13 years old. People say, ‘Oh, Mercede Johnston, I don’t know if people are going to come in if she works here.’ Or, ‘We love the Palins, so we’re not going to hire her.’” |
