Levi is off the hook! Update!

According to the Daily Beast:

“I just want things to be dropped and get the truth out there. He’s not the father and that’s what needs to be said because there is no way he is,” Garcia said in an interview from the coffee shop where she works in Wasilla.

Garcia, who says she is due August 30, admits to dating Johnston in the eighth grade, but says she has not dated or been with him recently. She insists they have had no contact at all.

She also says the baby’s father, whom she did not want to name, is her boyfriend of three years whom she hopes to marry “if everything works out.”

She lays blame to the roots of the rumor at Wasilla jealousy and believes someone in the small town is getting paid-off.

“I have no idea (who it could be) because somebody did that to get big money. That’s how people are here, they will do whatever they can do to get money,” Garcia says. “That’s how this town is.”

Okay, so it is now pretty apparent that Lanesia did NOT give an interview to the National Enquirer, which I still have yet to see, and that she was telling Mercede the truth. And it also means that the Enquirer did not do anything except repeat rumors without even attempting to verify them.

I know for a fact that the guy that was up here from the NE did not talk to Mercede, or Sherry, and did not even contact me until Tuesday afternoon right before he caught a plane on his way back to the lower forty eight.  I did not have anything for him, and told him so.  I have no idea who he actually DID talk to, but it was none of the people I have contact with.

I would like to take a moment to apologize to Lanesia.  I at the very least had assumed that the National Enquirer reporter had confirmed that Levi and she had been romantically involved before he started making accusations. To find that was not the case says lot about that organization, which had just gained some much needed credibility by breaking the John Edward's story.

However when questioned by Mercede Lanesia told the truth and she should have been given the benefit of the doubt. That is bad on me for being skeptical.

Now on whether this information will be enough to repair Bristol and Levi's shattered relationship, I do still remain a skeptic. I think it is pretty clear the relationship will always be in jeopardy since there is a complete lack of trust between these two kids going back for many years, and I just don't see how Bristol is ever going to stop wondering WHERE Levi is when he is not home, and WHO he might be spending time with when she does not have him in her sight.

Perhaps if they were not in the public eye they might have more of an opportunity to patch things up and live a relatively normal life, but let's face it neither one of them seems to really want to drift back into the shadows of obscurity right now, as evidenced by their garish photo spread in US Weekly announcing their engagement.

Not that Bristol's fame whore of a mother would allow her family to hide from the cameras for very long anyhow. 'Hi I am Sarah Palin and this is my perfect family.  Holy crap where did the little retar..uh...special needs one go again? Okay camera guys film quickly before another one of these little terrors breaks into a house, vandalizes a school bus, or pops out another baby!"

And so ends this weeks' episode of the "Way out Wacky Weirdos of Wasilla!" Tune in next week to see Sarah Palin baptize the Gosselin children in Lake Lucille!

Now they have found Jesus AND glow in the dark!

Update:  Uh oh!  It looks like Levi might be back ON the hook again.  Perhaps Lanesia was not the source of Bristol's second thoughts after all.