Teen Mom Star Catelynn Lowell Reveals She Was Sexually Abused As A Child
14.10.2023 - 23:11
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Catelynn Lowell opened up about a horrific time in her past.
Throughout the past season of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, fans watched her husband, Tyler Baltierra, deal with trauma from his childhood sexual abuse in intensive therapy. He has continued to be open and honest about the situation even at the reunion, telling hosts Dr. Drew Pinsky and Nessa:
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Tyler explained that being molested as a kid later “created this hypersexuality” in him as a teenager and led to other traumatic situations – including him and Catelynn getting pregnant at 17 and then putting their daughter Carly up for adoption. And now, he’s learned through therapy he needs to let the “guilt and shame” go:
When Catelynn pointed out how much stigma there is surrounding men speaking out about sexual trauma, Dr. Drew asked her if she was ever abused as a young child too. And for the first ever on camera, the 31-year-old shared that she had been too:
However, Catelynn’s family did not take the news well at all. Dr. Drew questioned whether her revelation was what caused her mom, April Brockmiller, to drink again. But the reality star quickly shut the claim down, stating that her mother had a horrible reaction to it:
What the actual f**k. It does not matter how rocky their relationships have been over the years that was a cruel and heartless response to someone’s sexual abuse story. Coming forward about these traumatic experiences is already hard enough, so we cannot imagine the added pain Catelynn must have felt from her mom’s reaction.
And it sadly gets worse from here. The MTV personality then revealed April “got a tattoo of the