Teen Mom’s Farrah Abraham reveals real reason she released spicy tape that made her millions
It beat Kim Kardashian's viewership record by millions
Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham has revealed the real reason she released her saucy sex tape back in May 2013.
The tape was an instant success, getting over two million views in the first 12 hours, which more than tripled the record set by Kim Kardashian’s tape.
Farrah since revealed that she was trying to work through the grief of losing her boyfriend and father to her child, who passed away from a car crash in 2008.
She told E Online!: “I was letting my bereavement, the loss of my daughter’s father, my depression, my anxiety disorder that I was diagnosed with at that time, it was very much running my life.”
She explained that her then-manager suggested that she film a tape, and she ended up working with a professional porn star to make her feel more comfortable.
She explained: “It definitely was a time when I was young, no one was really looking out for me. I had a really bad mother wound. I had a really bad complex with my mom not being the mom that I needed.”
Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham ended up ending her relationship with her manager after the tape leaked but ultimately decided to work with Vivid Entertainment to formally release the tape and make some money from it.
She explained: “I was just like, ‘hey, he went and he did this. So now let me go publicly, just take control, take agency over it all.’
“And I got a lot of negative male toxicity from that, and males hating me because I cut out a male from a huge payday.”
Farrah made a reported seven figure deal from the tape, recalling: “I was like, ‘oh, men want to hate me.’ And I was like, ‘huh, well, I’m going to show everyone that I’m going to make more money and they can continue to hate and they’re never going to get in my way.’ And so, I ended up making female and male novelty toy lines, and it sold out over and over and over.”
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