Amber Portwood took a break from singing (and screaming) on TikTok Live to open up her current mental state— and reveal why she can frequently be found sitting on her trusty couch.
The former Teen Mom star— who seemingly spends hours upon hours each day on TikTok Live ranting about the show, its producers, the media, her baby daddy Gary Shirley and more— took the opportunity on Friday to address comments she frequently receives about her spending most of the day on her bed or couch.
“Yeah, I sit on my bed sometimes. I sit on my couch. Why? Because I can’t get up. I’m stuck. Sometimes I feel stuck…” a somber-looking Amber revealed.
(The Ashley assumes that Amber means she feels emotionally stuck, not that she is actually physically attached to her couch and/or bed at this point.)
Amber went on to explain that making poor choices in her early years has brought her to the place she is currently.
“Sometimes I feel, like, hopeless,” she said. “No motivation, nothing. I have nothing to see that motivates me too much. I did too much s**t when I was younger. I messed up a lot of my life.”
As ‘Teen Mom’ fans are aware, Amber currently has had no relationship with her daughter Leah after Leah went no-contact due to Amber’s actions over the past few years. Amber does have a relationship with her son, James; however, the seven-year-old lives with his dad Andrew Glennon in California, while Amber remains in Indiana.
“These days, you guys, it’s like living in hell, but living,” Amber said. “I live for a reason. I know my reason to be here. I’m telling you that right now.”
“I’m 35. I’ve got time, and there’s more to do,” she said. “I’m not going to fail you guys. I might fall, but I’m not going to fail you….we try to stop ourselves and we go through those mistakes and we try to learn, and we fall.”
Over the past year, several ‘Teen Mom’ cast members have criticized Amber for spending so much time on TikTok Live (and her couch), particularly because she is usually ranting.
In May, Jade Cline slammed Amber for not maturing like many of their fellow castmates have in the years since they started the show.
“All of us have grown, evolved and changed, gotten older, gotten more mature [since then]. “We were in our early twenties then, we’re getting into our late twenties now…. a lot of the girls have changed and evolved— and you’re still on the couch!” Jade told her.
Ashley Jones has also lashed out at Amber over the amount of hours Amber’s butt is lodged on her couch and not doing more-productive things.
“The fact that you sat on that couch for 16-plus years…” Ashley said on social media in May. “I have had it with her funky ass couch, I have had it with those creepy ass ventriloquist dolls on her funky ass couch.”
At the time, Ashley claimed that the help her co-star has been receiving for her mental health is “not working,” and that Amber is running out time to repair the broken relationship she has with Leah.
“ … I’m here to tell you, Amber, if you want any chance of getting back with your daughter, you are running out of time,” she said. “If you already don’t have any more time, you’re running out of time, OK? You’re running out of time.”
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Oh wahhhhhhhhh. Can’t stand her.
If you get your ass off the couch, get a job, even volunteer somewhere, you’ll see a big improvement in life.
I gotta say that the junior teen moms or whatever they’re called, seem to feel entitled to voice their opinions on social media about the highly edited version of their cast mate’s life as it appears on sleazeball reality television. I’m no fan of Amber’s. I’m afraid, evil person that I am, I’m only a fan of the Ashley’s snark that she’s managed to keep lo these many years.
Managed to keep fresh…ya need an edit button or I need to be a better proofreader.
Ashley spit on her Landlord but as long as she opposes Amber, it’s all good. I guarantee Ashley wouldn’t speak to Amber that way in person. Of course, Amber does need to get off the couch and get a real life. This is her first time I recall her mentioning how much time she spend on the couch, baby steps.
Baby steps?? She’s been there for over 16yrs! How many baby steps does it take. She’s had more opportunities than most people to get real help. Her counsellor she sees now says she doesn’t turn up when she’s supposed to and doesn’t do the work she’s supposed to. So stop giving her excuses. There are people out there that have the same diagnosis as Amber and yet they live productive lives and don’t use their mental health issues as an excuse 24/7. So just take your baby steps and maybe she’ll take a giant step forward but I doubt it.
BABY STEPS?!?! That’s fucking laughable since she’s STILL sitting her lazy ass on that couch or in that bed!
Side note: I guarantee Ashley would 100% say that shit to Amber’s face. Amber is a pretend thug who thinks she’s hard because she CHOSE to go to prison for, what, 18 months? Please. If Ashley went at Amber face to face Amber wouldn’t do a fucking thing.
Lazy bitch just using her “mental health issues” as a fucking excuse. “I’m depressed. I’m bipolar. I have anxiety.” AND?!? So do most Americans in the exact same age range and they are still active parents in their children’s lives.
In both my personal and professional life (healthcare, and full disclosure also have BP) my immediate internal reaction to a learning someone has a bipolar diagnosis is usually either “huh, would not have guessed” or “is that *all*, tho?” 😅
She brings nothing to herself, her family or society. I would have said friends but I doubt she has any. What is the point of her? Waste of oxygen at this point.
Maybe try a psychiatrist for adults and not children Ambie.. shit, you could have 4 degrees while sitting on your couch by now
I really feel for Amber. I sincerely think she is dealing with a lot at this stage of her life. If she goes out, especially locally, everyone knows her.
Leah isn’t talking to her and James is in California.
I truly feel that Amber is mentally ill and is stuck emotionally. I have bipolar and there are days I can’t get off the couch either. Too many of those days rack up and I have to call my dr. to get different meds. It’s not fun. Her going out into the world isn’t the same as you or me going out.
For some reason, I’ve always liked Amber. I really hope she gets the help that she needs and salvation through Jesus if she doesn’t
have it. I wish her a heart full of peace.
I have mental health issues. I have friends with a plethora of different mental illnesses. And, yeah, we have moments where we can’t get out of bed. Can’t get off the couch. Just really and completely struggle. We still have to be parents. We still have to go to work. If she would get TF up and DO SOMETHING like getting an actual job or volunteering, it would help her so much, At this point, she CHOOSES to keep her lazy ass on the couch doing NOTHING. There is no room for sympathy for shitty egg/sperm donors. FFS even RYAN with all his bullshit and refusal to care for his children has a real fucking job. There’s no excuse, it’s all a fucking choice.
Thank you. You speak from experience and she can’t say you don’t understand. She uses her mental health issues as a shield. Everything that goes wrong in her life she blames her mental health. She’s had more opportunities than most and more money to get top notch care but apparently from what her child psychologist said she doesn’t turn up or do the work needed to help herself. So she’s just lazy. But thank you for your story. It means more coming from someone who actually does have mental health issues.
Amber can get off the couch and go out in public for her boyfriends, that’s not an excuse.
Go to school. Get a job. Get off the internet. Get a purpose.
Get a LIFE!
Didn’t she start online school? What happened with that?
Stop what you have been doing all the past time until now. You perfectly know what you have been doing wrong. It is time to do it right. Get up an Do It !!! Find a purpose in your life! You have 2 of them your girl and your boy. And anything else you want even yourself. Make your life awesome. Not all the people depends of a show. Make yourself a better person and feel proud of your self. If you have the time to seat on a couch for long. Stop making til told and think what do you like to do or interested other than that and meditate and think how you can do a great change to reverse al the wrong doing. Make your children some day be proud of you. It is time for change. It is now and girl do it.
Work in how you can do itt then work your plan.
This is what happens when you don’t have goals and drive. A job. A purpose.
But what I find staggering is, as a mum, even on days I’m not working, I simply do not have time to spend the whole day on the couch. And that’s the difference between a biological parent, and a PARENT.
I work in mental health and see hundreds of people with debilitating conditions still able to function and contribute to society. Sure, they may have a little blip here and there when things become too much, but Amber just uses her mental illness as an excuse for shitty, lazy behaviour. Oh, and she’s beyond grandiose!!
then wth was her excuse back in the early teen mom days because she was definitely still sitting on that couch or that dirty mattress on the floor
Oh boo f’n hoo. I made tons of bad choices in my younger days and a lot of it was tied into mental health and severe abuse. You can’t keep blaming all your problems on everyone else. She has had all the resources to get help. Do people with bipolar have bad days?? Yes. That’s where DBT, therapy and meds come in. I don’t see a child therapist. I am very serious about sleep and staying on top of my symptoms, meds. She’s been laying around for years having a pitty party. She’s gets zero sympathy from me.
NO Amber, you’re just LAZY
This is why parents need to have an identity OUTSIDE of just being parents. She doesn’t have custody of either kid. She could be in school. She could be working. She could be volunteering. But she doesn’t do those things because she only wants to be known as “that girl from teen mom on the couch”. She has no sense of self outside of the show.
She’s never going to change.