Amber Portwood Defends Her Decision to Lie About Possibly Being Pregnant to Get Out of Filming for ‘Teen Mom: The Next Chapter’

Teen Mom: The Next Chapter fans were shocked (and, frankly a little bit confused) during the most-recent episode when Amber Portwood told a producer that she couldn’t film because she was in the middle of a pregnancy scare…only to later reveal on-camera that she lied about possibly being knocked up because she wanted to get out of her filming obligations for the show.

Since the episode aired, fans have been sounding off on social media about Amber’s antics, with many slamming the couch aficionado for lying about something so important, as well as for slacking off on an already easy job of being filmed on her recliner.

Amber recently logged on to TikTok Live and addressed her actions, laughing it off and admitting to frequently lying to get out of things she doesn’t want to do.

“I did! This last season to not film, 100 percent [I did]!” Amber said, cackling. “I didn’t want to film so I told [production], ‘Oh, I’m feeling sick. I don’t know, I think I got pregnant.’ I don’t know, they gave me an extra week or two just away from them. Then when they came back, I just told them, like, ‘Sometimes when we don’t wanna do s**t we just lie! Say we are sick or I don’t know.'”

When Amber’s friend on the Live seemed confused and a bit disturbed by Amber’s hijinks, Amber continued to laugh, saying she was “weak when I watched that” clip. 

“You never did that s**t before? Like, said you were sick or something?” she asked him.

Amber’s friend continued to be bothered by Amber’s actions, so Amber again defended herself.

“But to get, like, cameras away, you have to really say something. You’ve got to be dying. Like, it’s got to be something serious!” she said, adding that she told producers that she may have been knocked up by an “ex” to make it sound more convincing.

Amber admitted that her scheme “went to far” because she allowed her producers to buy her a pregnancy test. 

“I was like, ‘Oh my God, I wasn’t wanting all that guys,’ Amber—who specifically told the producers to pick her up a test— stated. “I thought [they] would just leave.

“Am I a weirdo for that? Do I get in trouble for that?” Amber continued. “Well, I mean, it happened.”

She then revealed that this wasn’t the only time she pulled a stunt like this to get out of filming for the show.

“I will go hard,” Amber bragged. “Listen, if I feel like I’m too sick or can’t film and they’re not listening— because they don’t!— I will literally say some f**ked up s**t like, ‘I just broke my pinkie toe’ or ‘I just cut off my thumb!’ You can’t just say you’re sick because they will say, ‘Oh we want to film you when you’re sick.’

Fans on the Live seemed confused about Amber’s explanation, with one person even writing, “How does you faking [being] pregnant get you out of a show that you were on because you were pregnant?!” (Amber called the commenter “dumb.”)

She then revealed that she had previously tried to claim that she had COVID to get out of filming, but that producers had called her bluff and given her a COVID test. 

“It was for a mental break,” Amber insisted. “I don’t think any of the other girls [on the cast] have done that before. I just make up s**t [to get out of filming].”

Amber continued to chuckle about making the producers and crew have to come back to film.

“Sometimes you just don’t want to [film], ya know?” she laughed.

‘Teen Mom: The Next Chapter’ airs (with Amber…unless she fakes having leprosy or something) Thursday nights on MTV.