Tila Tequila blames insane naked rant on alleged abuse, says Rihanna was wrong

Tila Tequila leaving Bardot nightclub with a mystery male in Hollywood
A few weeks ago, Tila Tequila vowed to get off Twitter in order to work on a new book. (I would verify this by linking to the post but it’s like finding a needle in a haystack with how much this woman tweets.) Tila of course returned to Twitter almost immediately to satisfy her insatiable need for attention and affirmation. I considered covering it briefly, but then I decided it’s best to ignore her.

Late Wednesday night/Thursday morning, Tila went on a topless rant on her live webcam through UStream, which she linked on her Twitter account.TMZ alerted us to Tila’s rant and I tuned in for about three minutes before switching it off. She was going off about Shawne Merriman, the guy she is suing for an alleged abusive incident, and telling people that they shouldn’t support him just because he’s black. She made a bunch of really stupid comments about how all her friends are black and how black people are her “peeps,” but said Merriman doesn’t care about black people so he shouldn’t be supported based on his race. Tila was wearing a towel and smoking a cigarette when I was watching. Her voice was hoarse and she had on full makeup and very fake-looking nails. TMZ claims her rant lasted for hours.

In case you have much better things to do than follow Tila Tequila’s idiocy, she’s suing Shawne Merriman, a quarterback for the San Diego Chargers, for assault she claims he committed against her in September. The DA dropped all charges against Merriman because there wasn’t enough evidence against him. Tila showed off her bruises to the paparazzi shortly afterwards around the time she claimed to have had a meeting with the DA. The DA’s office denied ever seeing her. Ten weeks later and she’s still raging about the incident.

Tila now claims she went on the rant because she’s still upset about the abuse. She went on to say that Rihanna handled Chris Brown’s abuse the wrong way by being quiet. Give me a break.

Tila Tequila had a naked, ranting meltdown Wednesday night on her UStream channel, where she danced around and complained about ex-boyfriend, NFL star Shawne Merriman, whom she says beat her.

At one point, she rambled: “People call me an attention whore … or whatever … but excuse me, I’m a grown a– woman and I’m confident in myself … I think a woman’s body is a beautiful thing … that’s why I’m a lesbian … I was born naked … anybody who is against that is gay and in denial.”

The 28-year-old MTV reality star — real name: Tila Nguyen — now says Merriman’s alleged abuse prompted the bizarre video (which has been taken down).

“Well, you know, I couldn’t sleep, and I started getting anxiety,” she tells TMZ of why she made the tape. “I just kind of flipped out a little bit.”

Tila — who is currently filing a $1.5 million lawsuit against Merriman for battery and false imprisonment — said she is “doing OK now.”

“I just wish … I hope that everybody gives me a second chance to support me this time, to give me a fair chance because they didn’t give me a fair chance the first time,” she said.

Referring to District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis dismissing her claims, Tila then told TMZ, “They didn’t even look into [my case].”

“When my case first came out, everyone was calling me a liar because [they said] if he really did beat you, you wouldn’t have said anything because Rihanna never said anything [at first],” Tila went on.

“But I am not her,” Tila said. “No offense to Rihanna, but because of what she did, it sends out a message to everyone … ‘When you get beat or abused, keep your mouth shut.’

“So I decided I am going to come out and speak about it and fight for it…” she went on.

“What Rihanna did … her message was to say quiet,” Tila said, “and that’s not OK.”

[From US Weekly]

I don’t know if this woman was hurt or not. She had some bruises, but given her insane behavior they could have just has easily been put on with makeup. The only reason she went on that rant is because people weren’t paying enough attention to her. She took off her top for God’s sake. Watching the video, she does have some serious mental health issues and that’s nothing to make fun of. When she talks like this and criticizes Rihanna it’s really hard to take her seriously at all or even have any sympathy for how crazy she is. She kind of turns my stomach and I find her the worst kind of famewhore. Her behavior after the alleged incident makes me think she made it up for attention. Maybe it actually happened, but she’s not going to get people to support her by ratcheting up the volume. She’s not going to win any lawsuits either.

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  1. snowball says:

    Ok, this is going to be gross, I warn everyone in advance. Really gag me gross.

    If anybody actually sat through the whole thing, did you notice her playing with her, uh, vomit, tampon string?

    I couldn’t tell if he was joking or not, but MK put that in there in the summary of her little show.

  2. Green Is Good says:

    I don’t know much about this Tequila hag, but I know an attention-whore mental patient when I see one.

    Why is she infamous again? Eh, I don’t care.

  3. QB says:

    I hate her but she was right about Rihanna and everybody haves said the samething about Rihanna.

  4. sumeria says:

    First of all Rihanna did not need to comment, that picture spoke volumes. That she did not issue a denial at the time was enough for me.
    Second, Merriman gave a plausible explanation, that he was trying to stop her from doing damage to herself – a perspective her crazy video lends credence to.
    It is not that I think one is honest and one not, but that because of the fog that surrounds the situation, unless I am sitting on a jury being given sworn testimony, I am not prepared to render judgement in this situation.
    Yes I do feel that men should not hurt women, But when crazy gets involved, to a certain extent, all bets are off.

  5. Firestarter says:

    Get off the drugs Tila!

  6. original kate says:

    i’m sure rhianna’s lawyers probably told her not to talk to the press, as it was an ongoing investigation. when the trial was over she did talk, but what is more important is that she filed the charges. oh, and tila? what kind of lesbian has sex with men? i think tila would have sex with a brick or a top hat if she thought it would get her some attention.

  7. Rihanna DID NOT file charges says:

    Rihanna DID NOT file charges against Chris Brown, the state of California did. The prosecutor can choose to file against a person on behalf of the state even if the other person involved does not file, and that is what happened with Chris Brown and Rihanna. So she didn’t do the most important thing. And while I think Tila Tequila is majorly off her rocker, I do think that Rihanna should have spoken up long before she did. I understand that she has a record coming out and the questions are inevitable BUT if she really wants to be “role model” to young girls, as she claimed in the 20/20 interview then I think she should have spoken out sooner because it IS an important issue. Waiting until it’s definitely going to happen because of a record isn’t taking a stand or helping people, it’s doing what you need to do to promote your stuff.

  8. Brown Suga says:

    riahnna did not and does not have to speak up. Just because she was beat does not mean she has to be the face od DV.

  9. Kathie says:

    Okay she is the worst type of famewhore, okay she is probably mentally ill and drug crazed but considering she gets the attention of celebrity blogs like this one for her behavior what does that make CB and other sites, enablers? She doesn’t care if the attention is positive or negative so therefore she achieved her aim by actually appearing on various blog sites. Andy Warhol was right about the 15 minutes of fame thing but failed to factor in tweets, blogs and You tube channels that extend that 15 minutes into agonizing infinity!

  10. Kathie says:

    Re: Rihanna did not file charges: Of course she didn’t it is the perview of the state to bring those charges so the victims don’t have to. The perpetrator of crimes like these is presumed to have violated the laws of the state not just the civil liberties of the victim, that is why families of murder victims do not have to file criminal charges against alleged murderers! It is not a reflection of Rhiannas lack of action against her abuser, it is the way our legal system works, are you from Europe or something that you didn’t know this? Concurrent with the filing of charges by the state the victim can then file in civil court for monetary damages but that is completely irrespective of the criminal action.

  11. gg says:

    Tila you silly cow! It is extremely stupid to blabb about your case if you are in any way involved in a lawsuit, lest the evidence and testimony and jury become tainted and a mistrial declared.

  12. Jenna says:

    I can’t even think of a sarcastic comment to say for this trainwreck. If it isn’t Lindsay, I’m finding, it’s this woman. It’s just utterly disgusting.

    Also, I heard mention she was masturbating with a gun at one point in the video. True or false?

  13. TwinkleToes says:

    Excuse my caps in this message to Tila.

    TILA, ALL OF YOUR PROBLEMS WILL FADE WHEN YOU REALIZE YOU ARE ALLERGIC TO ALCOHOL. JUST LIKE AN INUIT OR NATIVE AMERICAN CANNOT DRINK EITHER CAN YOU. LOOK IT UP. ALASKAN ESKIMOS ACT INSANE ON ALCOHOL LIKE OTHER RACES ACT ON CRACK OR METH. DRINKING IS NOT FOR YOU AND YOU SHOULD NEVER DRINK BECAUSE YOU WILL BECOME ILL AND BE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSON. THERE’S A SHOW ON CABLE NOW ABOUT ALASKA AND THEY FEATURED THIS PROBLEM LAST WEEK. LOTS OF PEOPLE IN JAIL OVER DRINKING. JUST DRINKING. IF SOMEONE IS WHITE OR BLACK AND ACTS LIKE A MANIAC ON ALCOHOL THEN THEY SHOULD DO A DNA TEST OR CHECK GENEALOGY FOR AN ASIATIC GENE BECAUSE THIS IS THE PROBLEM. IF YOU MUST DO SOMETHING, SWITCH TO COFFEE AND WEED. TILA, LIVE BY THIS ONE RULE AND EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY. THE END.

  14. thepickle says:

    @ Twinkle..hmm that is interesting, my asian girlfriend says she is allergic- i’ve heard of it, but didn’t know it could actually make you act insane..

    poor Tila..she is a wannabe Jenna. too late for her to build a porn empire. She will just have to fade into obscurity like most present day “celebrities”. Only people with real talents like Rihanna will stand the test of time.

  15. Rihanna DID NOT file charges says:

    Kathie,

    I was simply replying to the person who posted above who said that Rihanna filed charges and that was the “most important thing” to do.

    I was not agreeing with that person regarding it being the most important thing to do and do not believe that she should be made to file charges. I respect that she didn’t and don’t think it has any bearing on her as a victim. I wasn’t criticizing her for not filing charges. If you’d gotten a little context by reading the comments above, you may have realized this.

    I was simply saying that if she wanted to be viewed as a role model she should have spoken out when she didn’t have to do so because of an album.

    You misunderstood my comment and really didn’t need to go into so much detail (with so much attitude). I understand the legal system in America quite well, thanks though.

  16. TwinkleToes says:

    If anyone has a twitter account or is linked to her twitter, can ya’ll do me a favor and forward my above message to her? Tell her to come here to CB and see it. I actually would suggest a lot of celebs read the comments here because the moderation is so strict that you don’t have a bunch of yahoos posting like on other sites and this forum is a good sounding board for celebs and their people who want feedback. A useful tool this site is and so much fun.

  17. lrm says:

    Well,ya’ll have prob. heard that the ‘witches of salem’ had their hallucigenic behaviors owing to consuming Rye grain that had gone bad….too lazy to look up the word/chemical right now,but when rye,sitting in bins over the long winter,for example,during that time period,goes rancid,and is consumed—all kinds of crazy can happen.

    Not sure why only these young women ate bread made with the crazy grain,buuuuuuuut…it’s an interesting story,perhaps parallel to the grain in alcohol/beer and allergic reactions.

    I have no idea what I am talking about. But,the comments reminded me of the Salem witch story re: rye.

    lol

  18. valerie says:

    y r u all so hard on tila? if it was britney u be like, “oh poor britney, save britney!” whats up w/ that?

  19. Kathie says:

    Wow sweetie calm down, didn’t mean to take you out of context and certainly apologize for too much detail.

  20. jule says:

    I have heard that asian blood lacks an enzyme to break down liquor properly.

  21. MARKY-MARK says:

    This girls 15 minutes were finally up and upon realizing this she snapped

  22. snowball says:

    valerie? Um not so much. Brit always gets people pooping on her because she’s nutso (when she’s off her meds, and I do mean that seriously).

    And for God’s sake, quit with the haxor language. Capital letters, proper use of punctuation and actual words, not letter replacements will go a long way towards disproving that you are 13 years old.

  23. Jenna says:

    Well, if memory serves correctly, Britney never pulled her tampon out of her vag and waved it around. Now that might not be true so don’t quote me. Tila, she did just that. Poor Tila, always the attention seeker. There. Poor Tila.

  24. tay says:

    da tweets dat she posted about her book being published are on her blog on myspace…tilas jus crazy. lol. i still like her tho. but i gota say i like rihanna better…anyway her life thing sounds like complete bull…its a cry for attention…and da thing bout her 15 minutes of fame being up nd her jus flippin out is sooo true..nd i agree dat lesbian dont f*** men! im a lesbian and dats just nasty…she might be bisexual or jus wanting more attention from guys…

  25. Truthful says:

    ummm, yeah- I saw her do a strip tease with a butcher knife..a HUGE butcher knife, she was rolling around on her kitchen floor.

    she was practically foaming at the mouth..

    Krazy dame

  26. anonymous says:

    He’s not a quarterback, he is a linebacker. And word around San Diego is that she was either naked and ranting at his house the night it happened or she was threatening to take off all her clothes and run down the street screaming and that’s why he was “restraining” her. Supposedly because she caught him in bed with another woman or multiple other women depending on who you ask. Not saying its true, just sharing the rumor.

  27. bella says:

    I live in San Diego, and charges weren’t filed by the DA due to lack of evidence, I do believe. That speaks volumes right there.

  28. Babs says:

    A few weeks ago, Tila Tequila vowed to “get off Twitter in order to work on a new book.”

    This is one of those statements only the greatest of great writers would make. If, for the sake of example, Hemmingway was alive today, he would no doubt have such a great ‘Twitter Account” addiction that who knows if any of his seminal works would have ever been published.
    For it is true, when Twitter calls, great literature goes begging.

  29. TwinkleToes says:

    I actually caught one of her live “shows” on upstream this morning. she is so predictable. I signed on through my MySpace account to leave comments in the chat room. She really doesn’t read the comments, just the # of viewers. So sad. She was pretending to be another personality named Jane Cordoves, a hispanic lesbian. Everyone was begging her to get help in the chat room. When the viewers started dwindling she would pull out a pellet gun and pretend to wanna kill herself. The saddest blackout drunk I’ve ever seen and there was white powder in her nostrils. That was so sobering for me on so many levels.

  30. AC says:

    Ugh, I wish this woman would just jump off a bridge somewhere.

  31. Jojo says:

    she is so fucking hideous.. it’s just terrible..