The Juno of Juneau’s baby daddy is talking.
Levi Johnston (a.k.a. the teen who impregnated Sarah Palin’s daughter) is finally setting the record straight.
In a new interview conducted by the Associated Press in the driveway of his family’s home in Wasilla, Alaska, Johnston is spilling the beans about marrying the governor’s daughter, Bristol, and becoming a dad at 18.
In the interview Johnston maintains that he was not forced by the Republican vice presidential candidate and her husband to marry their pregnant 17-year-old daughter. Rather, the hockey-loving teen says he intended to spend the rest of his life with Bristol Palin long before she got pregnant.
“We both love each other. We both want to marry each other. And that’s what we are going to do.”
What’s more, Johnston adds: “We were planning on getting married a long time ago with or without the kid.”
Once you get your eyes to stop rolling you might be interested in this next tidbit: According to Johnston, who dropped out of high school this year to take a job on the North Slope oil fields as an apprentice electrician, he and Bristol are planning a family-friendly wedding sometime next summer.
As for his soon-to-be-born baby (the teen hinted that Bristol is pregnant with a son) Johnston says he plans to be a hands-on dad.
“I’m looking forward to having him. I’m going to take him hunting and fishing. He’ll be everywhere with me.”
Never mind that Johnston’s mega-publicized (former) MySpace page, contained comments that were in direct opposition to his current opinion on fatherhood.
I think his exact words were: “I don’t want kids.”
No, really, forget he wrote any of that because apparently… he didn’t. Or at least that’s what Johnston told the Associated Press reporter.
“It was a joke,” maintains Johnston.
A big joke created by his pals that he evidently had no hand in penning.
Again with the eyes.
Other noteworthy comments made by the teen during the interview:
In regards to Palin’s campaign crew forbidding him to answer questions from the media: “They’re not telling me anything right now. It’s pretty chill.”
On being asked to sit with the Palin family during the Republican National Convention: “At first, I was nervous. Then I was like, ‘Whatever.’ ”
On Barack Obama: “I don’t know anything about him. He seems like a good guy. I like him.”
On Palin’s chances of becoming the first female vice president: “I just hope she wins. She’s my future mother-in-law. She better win.”
After all, someone’s got to foot the wedding bill… the diaper bill… the rent…