{"id":43364,"date":"2021-08-28T06:08:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T00:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/teen-moms-mackenzie-edwards-claims-maci-bookout-uses-her-own-kids-to-make-a-buck-on-tv-vows-never-to-return-to-show\/"},"modified":"2021-08-28T06:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T00:39:00","slug":"teen-moms-mackenzie-edwards-claims-maci-bookout-uses-her-own-kids-to-make-a-buck-on-tv-vows-never-to-return-to-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/teen-moms-mackenzie-edwards-claims-maci-bookout-uses-her-own-kids-to-make-a-buck-on-tv-vows-never-to-return-to-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Mom’s Mackenzie Edwards claims Maci Bookout ‘uses her own kids to make a buck’ on TV & vows NEVER to return to show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TEEN Mom OG alum Mackenzie Edwards has accused her husband Ryan\u2019s ex, Maci Bookout, of “using her own kids” to make money on TV.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Mackenzie, 24, also vowed never to return to the show after she and Ryan, 33, were fired from the MTV reality series earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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Mackenzie Edwards says she would ‘work until her fingers bled’ before going back on Teen Mom OG<\/span>Credit: Coleman-Rayner<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mackenzie hit out at her husband Ryan Edwards’ ex Maci Bookout<\/span>Credit: MTV<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking about her life after Teen Mom OG, Mackenzie said she is now working as a sales representative for a local company near her hometown of Harrison, Tennessee. \u00a0<\/p>\n

She also lashed out at Maci, 30, who in addition to son Bentley, 12, with ex Ryan, shares 6-year-old daughter Jayde and 5-year-old son Maverick with husband Taylor McKinney. <\/p>\n

Mackenzie told The Sun: \u201cLife has been great since we left Teen Mom OG.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou couldn\u2019t pay me enough money to go back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just can\u2019t get down with a false narrative about our own lives and I\u2019m happy to be gone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe things that I was seeing on TV didn\u2019t match up with real life, especially in what pertained to me and Ryan.”<\/p>\n

She continued, speaking about Maci and Taylor: \u201cI\u2019m just done and I think that all that they care about is money.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the God\u2019s honest truth, they\u2019ll use their own children to make a buck and I\u2019m not cool with that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s OK to use stuff that Bentley has got going on emotionally for a dollar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI have values and I have morals and I\u2019m just not okay with it anymore.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI would work until my fingers bled before I went back.”<\/p>\n

Teen Mom fans have slammed Maci in the past for talking about therapy and other personal issues with preteen Bentley on camera. \u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/span>‘WE WERE JUST BLINDSIDED’<\/span><\/h2>\n

Mackenzie also blamed MTV’s editing and production process for her bad experience starring on the show for several seasons. <\/p>\n

She claimed: \u201cRyan and I just didn\u2019t agree with a lot of what MTV did on the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust as an example, after this last season we sat down at the very end, me and Ryan and Jen and Larry, and we said \u2018This was the best season that we ever had, just no drama, no nothing.’<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought that things were going great. We had no idea and we were just blindsided by everything when we watched the show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe kind of felt that we were being used to create some narrative that we didn\u2019t know about.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were trying to make things better, our number one goal was just to make things better for everybody.”<\/p>\n

<\/span>PRODUCERS ‘HIDE STUFF’<\/span><\/h2>\n

Mackenzie also claimed her quotes on the show were “taken out of context,” while Maci and Taylor were given a more positive edit.<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cMaci and Taylor are very aggressive people but they don\u2019t like to portray that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people who run the show hide stuff from you so you just don\u2019t really know what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey take stuff out of context and make you look like an a**hole when you were just trying to answer a basic question not about somebody else.<\/p>\n

She also said her family’s politics clashed with those of the network. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe other thing with MTV is that we\u2019re just not liberal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have an open mind and I\u2019m willing to listen to anyone\u2019s point of view regardless.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to push what I think down somebody\u2019s throat and I don\u2019t expect them to push it down mine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t care how much money you\u2019re waving in my face, I\u2019m going to stay true to myself and I\u2019m not going to follow behind like a little puppet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think that leaving the show is a blessing in disguise and I couldn\u2019t be any happier.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/span>NASTY FIGHT<\/span><\/h2>\n

As The Sun first reported, Ryan, Mackenzie and their family members were fired from the show after an explosive fight broke out between Ryan’s dad Larry and Maci’s husband Taylor while filming the show reunion.<\/p>\n

Ryan told The Sun this week that he had previously fallen out with the show\u2019s producers after they allegedly took down an American flag from his front porch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew that they were out there for themselves but what got me is when they took my flag down off the porch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey laid it on the ground and when I went down to pick it up they told me it was in their shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI got real angry because it was an American flag and they said it was in their way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI said \u2018Either put it back on the post or leave,\u2019 and that was the last time they ever came back, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan and Mackenzie have been at odds with Maci for years after they fought over how to deal with the father of three’s addiction problems, and how his mental health problems affected their co-parenting. <\/p>\n

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Mackenzie accused Maci of using ‘her own kids to make a buck’ on TV<\/span>Credit: Maci Bookout\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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