And considering the falling out that I had with Rex Butler and Tank Jones, I am not at all surprised.
The only contact I have had with anybody connected to the book, was when the authors contacted me to ask for Sadie's phone number, which I thought was rather odd since they were working with her brother.
Anyhow here is a rather troubling excerpt from this book:
We hear his side of the story about her pregnancy and the birth of their son. Levi says that Bristol was inspired when she learned her mother was pregnant.
“I’m the one, Bristol said, who should be having a baby. Not Sarah. . . . Bristol looked at me. Let’s get pregnant.” Levi says Bristol didn’t stop talking about having a baby after her mother’s new son, Trig, arrived. “When she started talking about it, I asked her about birth control, but she assured me that everything was safe. I only half believed her.”
Later, he writes, “Bristol got pregnant on purpose. She had finally come clean, admitted to me that she hadn’t been taking her birth control pills. We were having a baby, end of story.”
Now I have NEVER spoken to Levi about Sarah's "pregnancy," and he has never given any hint to his mother or sister concerning what he knows, but if Tank Jones is to be believed (And there was a time when I still think he WAS telling the truth), he certainly knows something quite different than what is in this book.
But even if I did not have access to that kind of information it would be obvious that Levi was not telling the truth.
He claims that "Bristol didn't stop talking about having a baby after her mother's new son, Trig, arrived."
According to the official account of his birth, Tripp was born on December 27, 2008, and was originally supposed to have arrived ten days earlier. In order for that to have been a full term pregnancy, Bristol would have had to be pregnant no later than mid to late March 2008.
Trig was born on April 18, 2008. Why would Bristol STILL have been trying to get pregnant after she supposedly was already pregnant?
And besides that according to Mercede and Sherry they were BOTH talking about getting pregnant, so Levi's story about being surprised simply does not ring true.
As I am sure most of you remember I had an author all ready to help Levi write a book in December of 2009, but when it came to actually signing a contract Rex and Tank got cold feet and backed out.
Part of me wonders if they realized that with my participation, THIS version of reality would never have made it into the book, therefore they needed to find co-authors who would not question Levi's version of events?
Well I still have Levi's book pre-ordered on my Nook, so I will sit down tomorrow and read through it before passing any final judgement. However from what I have seen thus far, I fear that Levi may have kept the truth at arms length.
Update: I received my copy of the book and have already read almost a third of it.
It literally reads like Levi actually wrote it! I did not expect it to be good, but this is a whole new level of bad!
I kid you not, the majority of it is actually about hunting and hockey!
I am sorry Levi, I wanted very much for you to vindicate yourself, but this is just embarrassing. If you had just refused to let Tank and Rex take over your life you could have had so much.
If anybody reads it and has a different opinion feel free to share, but I can not imagine that being the case.
To be honest I am not sure I can even make myself finish reading this damn thing.
