Catelynn Lowell Claims Her ‘Teen Mom’ Co-Star Amber Portwood Needs Intense Impatient Treatment: “She Is Not Well”

“She’s probably going to get Portwood AF on me for saying this…”

Catelynn Lowell is seemingly done defending her longtime friend and Teen Mom co-star Amber Portwood.

During a Live with YouTubers Elle Bee and Rei Clarke last week, Catelynn opened up about the state of her relationship with Amber, as well as Amber’s current state of mind, both of which are not in good shape, according to Cate.

“I think she’s manic,” Catelynn said. “I’m telling you right now, she is not well…deep down, I know for a fact she’s sick.” 

Catelynn stated that she has attempted to help Amber, who seems to spend the bulk majority of her days ranting and fighting on TikTok Live.

“Amber you need help.”
“Honestly Cate, I think I just need more puppets.”

“There’s been numerous times in this journey where I have talked to Amber privately, and I’ve said, ‘Girl, I think that you really need to go somewhere. I think you need to go to an inpatient treatment facility,'” Catelynn said. “Just this past May that passed, when we were still filming [‘Next Chapter’], I reached out to her and I was like, ‘Do you like living your life like this? Are you happy?'”

Catelynn stated that she told Amber that she would even accompany her to an inpatient rehab facility.

“I was like, ‘Let’s go. I will fly with you, I will take you there. I feel like it would benefit you so much,'” Catelynn said. “And she always just denies it, so I’m just kind of at the point now where I’m like, ‘You know you’re not happy fully. You know that there’s stuff that you could work on to help you get there. I’m sick of just, I don’t know, bringing it up and you don’t want to better yourself. So, I’m just kind of like— I take a step back— and I’m just like, ‘Well…whatever.'”

“I’m fine. Everything’s fine.”

Catelynn, Elle and Rei discussed how Amber’s life is currently on “repeat,” consisting of her staying up seemingly for days while on TikTok Live ranting about things including her ‘Teen Mom’ co-stars, her baby daddy Gary Shirley and his wife Kristina, and MTV in general. 

As ‘Teen Mom’ fans are aware, Amber has been diagnosed with multiple mental health disorders, which she claims to take medication for. However, Catelynn feels that this is not enough to help Amber.

“What are you TALKING about? I also talk to my child psychologist!”

“Medicine is not the fix for it all,” she said. “It’s a stepping stone to fix it but you have to go to talk therapy…Medicine, yeah, it’s a step in the right direction but you have to dig down deep to be like, ‘Where does this all come from? Why do I act the way that I do?'”

“…I think she just needs serious, intense inpatient treatment therapy, for sure,” Catelynn added of Amber. 

During the Live, Catelynn also indicated that she’s upset that Amber continues to bash her and their co-star Maci Bookout, as they have both been extremely supportive of Amber publicly and privately for years— something she and Maci have both caught a lot of flak for.

As proof of their support, we have this semi-creepy drawing of them attending Amber’s court date…

“You want to go online and talk crap about me and Maci when we’ve been the two people that have literally tried to help you this whole time,” Catelynn said. “We have tried to show you like, ‘Hey, this is what you could do if you want to do better.’ So, I’m kind of over it…I think it gets annoying when you see that someone could benefit from it so much and they know deep down that they would too, and they just don’t want to do it for themselves. 

“I’m wiping my hands,” Cate added.

As The Ashley told you in March, Amber went off on Cate and Maci during a TikTok Live rant, flipping them off on-camera and implying that they were bad friends to her.

Maci after dealing with Amber for 16 years…probably.

Days later, Amber was back on TikTok Live apologizing to Maci and Catelynn and explaining that she thought they were siding with her nemesis Gary over the situation with Amber’s estranged daughter Leah. By May, though, things seemed to once again be volatile between the trio, with Amber claiming on TikTok Live that Maci and Cate “turned on her” for money. (Amber claimed later that month that she had made up with Catelynn and stated that Cate was still very supportive of her, though she didn’t reveal the state of her relationship with Maci.) 

During the Live last week, Catelynn also addressed recent claims made on TikTok Live by her co-star and former (?) friend Amber Portwood. As The Ashley told you, Amber has been squawking that her quitting the show earlier this year is the reason ‘Next Chapter’ got cancelled, and that she played a large part in the ‘Teen Mom’ cast “losing their jobs.” 

“All of that is not factual,” Catelynn said of Amber’s claims. “She’s not the one paying the bigwigs that ran our show who are still there getting paid.”

Click here to watch the full interview.

RELATED STORY: Amber Portwood Taunts ‘Teen Mom’ Co-Stars for Not Having Jobs; Claims Her Quitting ‘Teen Mom: The Next Chapter’ Caused MTV to Cancel It

18 Responses


  1. Amber brings nothing to anybody, she’s a rubbish mom, she’s a shitty friend and she was a boring and pointless teen mom cast member. If she dropped down dead tomorrow she’d be forgotten about by the end of the week and it would be a relief to all who know her not to have to deal with this piece of shit anymore.


  2. You know it has gone to the bad when Caitlyn is the voice of reason. Ambien needs to break up with her couch and take care of her mentals.


  3. We’ll ignore the glaring hypocrisy but really, Catelynn, ya think?! Your dear friend has been going off the rails for years.


  4. There are a lot of things Cate could do to do better too. Things like not talking to a minor behind their parents back, trying to let them rebel against their parents and break rules.
    Pot, meer kettle.


  5. i applaud cate for being real about this and not in a way that attacks amber (either way i’m sure amber will find a way to make it seem like she did) but cate really should take her own advice when it comes to her obsession with the carly situation


    1. I agree. By no means am I saying Cate and Tyler don’t have their fair share of issues. They also need help. But they have never been violent that I’ve ever heard. Amber actually attacks Leah and gaslights her. “You make me act like this” after calling Leah a “dick” on her birthday. I can say with 💯 confidence that she’s not on her meds.


  6. Amber doesn’t want to go to in-patient therapy because she doesn’t want to give up the non-prescribed drugs she adds to her daily medication cocktail.

    Also, thank you for the much needed laugh I got from the “I think I just need more puppets” caption! 😂


    1. I think you’re right, and mixing medications with marijuana or alcohol can cause huge mental effects…that may be more the issue here, the mixture of things..can really F up brain chemicals. It’s so sad seeing sooo many young ppl relying on weed to get through life, very sad and hard to watch. They aren’t learning ANY coping skills in life, none.


  7. Amber hasn’t been well for probably 10 years. She explodes at people, which I’m surprised she hasn’t been back in gel. I don’t really think she goes out in public though.

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