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Palins Are Lying About Where I Lived: Levi

Bristol's baby daddy says his family's not 'white trash'

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 8, 2009 2:52 PM CDT

(Newser) – Levi Johnston is standing his ground against Alaska's first family, insisting that he did live at Sarah Palin’s house for two months, which the Palins deny. “They said I didn’t live there,” Johnston said on CBS' Early Show. “They say I ‘stayed there.’ I had all my stuff there. So, if you wanna call it ‘staying there,’ that’s fine.”

Johnston says the Palins have been cold to him since the election. He can see infant son Tripp, whose mother is Bristol Palin, whenever he wants, but he's not allowed to take the child out of the house. Asked what the most common misconception the public has about him, Johnston replied, “Probably that my family’s white trash.”

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In this Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008 file photo, Sherry Johnston, mother of Levi Johnston, talks about her son at her home in Wasilla, Alaska. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)

This Sept. 3, 2008 file photo shows Bristol Palin, daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Republican vice presidential candidate, and her boyfriend Levi Johnston at the Republican National Convention... (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, file)

Bristol Palin, daughter of Sarah Palin, and her boyfriend, Levi Johnston, wait for her mother to speak at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 3, 2008. (AP Photo)

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She was great. She treated me like a mom. I would look at her like a second mom. I think she'd do anything for me, at the time. And now, I don't know.
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