Bristol: DWTS Was Slam Dunk

Wasillan releasing tell-all memoir

(NEWSER) - There's no love lost between the Johnston and Palin clans, and Levi's new tell-all memoir is set to keep the feud going. In Deer In the Headlights, to be released later this month, Johnston claims that Bristol became pregnant with his child to get even with her mother for Sarah's pregnancy with Trig, reports the New York Daily News . He says Bristol, then 17, believed that she, not her politician mother, should be having babies. More»

Even though Levi had sex with her while she was passed out drunk

(NEWSER) - Bristol Palin insists she wasn't date-raped even though she charges in her new book that her virginity was "stolen" by baby daddy Levi Johnston after she passed out on too many wine coolers. “I'm not accusing Levi of date rape. I am just looking back with the adult eyes I have now and thinking that was a foolish decision,” she said on Good Morning America . “I should have never been underage drinking and I should never have gotten myself into a situation like that.” It was Palin's first clarification since several observers noted that her first sexual encounter cringingly resembles date-rape , and that her failure to characterize it as such does a disservice to women. More»

If true, she could help other women by speaking up: Jessica Valenti

(NEWSER) - In her new book, Bristol Palin writes that she has no recollection of losing her virginity because Levi Johnston got her drunk on wine coolers. “Levi wasn’t even there to help me process—or even confirm—my greatly feared suspicions,” she writes of waking up alone in their tent the next morning. Nowhere in the book does Bristol use the word rape, but "what she describes seems to be just that," writes Jessica Valenti in the Washington Post . In Bristol's telling, it was a "nonconsensual—and likely illegal—assault." More»

...and other revelations from her new memoir, 'Not Afraid of My Life'

(NEWSER) - Bristol Palin's memoir (Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far) is out next week, and one lucky AP writer got the assignment to score an early copy. And so we learn:

• She doesn't remember much about the night she lost her virginity to Levi Johnston because she was drunk, for the first time, on wine coolers. They were camping, and she woke in the tent alone as Levi talked to friends outside. She had wanted to wait until marriage.
• She calls him a "gnat" who "cheated on me about as frequently as he sharpened his hockey skates" and constantly spread lies about the Palin family.

He's a 'good family' guy, Bristol gushes of Giacinto "Gino" Paoletti

(NEWSER) - The Palins thought Levi Johnston was trouble... Now Bristol Palin has hooked up with new beau and "good guy" laborer Giacinto "Gino" Paoletti, who's all pro "family" and Christian, according to Bristol. "We have all the same religious beliefs and our families both come first in our lives," she tells E! Online . Oh yeah, and he likes to call people "n***a" and jokes about hypothetical sex with an overweight woman with Down syndrome on his Facebook page, notes Gawker . More»