Brandi Glanville has more opportunity to defend herself than ever in the co-parenting melee with LeAnn Rimes (who has been exploiting her stepsons for positive publicity because who doesn’t love photos that should be on the side of a milk carton taken at gunpoint by Falcor). Rimes used to have 100% say in how the affair with Eddie Cibrian was portrayed; crying crocodile tears, and asking for sympathy for helping to break apart a family-of-four. In between stalking Glanville online, aping her every item of clothing, copy and pasting her messages, appearing to incite others to bully Glanville, and general attention whoring like that time Rimes staged a photo-op at Chuck-E-Cheese during a kid’s party wearing a sheer dress with no bra underneath. Rimes even admitted to staging photos in a moment of clarity because of course she did. And now, with a voice and following of her own on Real Housewives, Glanville gets to speak too. In response to a video Rimes posted appearing to teach the youngest ‘bonus’ kid to ride his bike in the street without safety gear nor anyone close by to catch him if he should fall, Glanville says AGAIN the kids are in ‘danger’ with their father and stepmother. And there’s more; so much more. Glanville tells The Huffington Post: ‘She uses my kids as weapons. The problem with that is she endangers them. I think she is a sociopath. A lot more has happened than just [the bike riding] video. She constantly uses my kids as weapons and puts them in danger. She needs major help… no way Eddie puts up with this for too much longer.’
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Well, you have to wonder why after receiving criticism for tweeting and posting photos of the kids that Leann responds by posting even more photos and tweets of the kids. I’m just glad that Leann didn’t set up a staged photo-op with the kids at the airport again on Sunday. At the rate she was posting those photos of the kids to her fan website, I thought that she was going to call her pap friends again just to spite everyone.
I don’t think that Eddie is going to do anything about how careless Leann is being with the kids. The kids are what he uses to bargain for gifts and jobs. The photos of the kids are still on Leann’s twitter page and the videos and photos of the kids are still on her fan website. Brandi should make a list of “Dos and Don’ts” regarding Leann and her kids, sit down with her lawyer and Eddie(without Leann), and give Eddie a timeframe of 2 weeks to implement these rules with Leann. Brandi shouldn’t take no for an answer, not when Leann is getting out of control.
Darrell Brown tweeted that state the of CA and the federal goverment gave Leann the right to post whatever she wants about Brandi’s kids, so I wonder if this is why Brandi’s lawyers won’t take any action. Despite what DB and Leann’s lawyers say, being Eddie’s wife doesn’t give Leann the right to tweet and post whatever she wants about Brandi’s kids, especially when the mother is an active part of the kid’s life.
What is also baffling…how come not one media outlet asked why Leann is tweeting in the first place considering how much emphasis she put on going to rehab because of stress over twitter and how she cried in Katie’s interview about how her childhood was ruined by being in the spotlight at such a young age?
I don’t think that Eddie is going anywhere. He’s dependent on LeAnn financially in order to maintain the luxury lifestyle he wants to live. LeAnn seems so desperate to keep up appearances of a life of “bliss”, that she probably lets him have his side pieces as long as he plays his part in her charade game of happy families. This means he’s happy to hypocritically pimp out his kids by proxy, letting LeAnn post their images all over her for profit fan site and all over Twitter He, like LeAnn uses the boys to hurt Brandi and is putting his love of Cabo vacations, expensive gifts and his credit card bills being paid, before the well being of his sons. Because LeAnn is hell bent on hurting Brandi, she’s not thinking clearly about what is safe for the children. Putting a 5 year old, on a bike with no training wheels and no helmet and yelling at said kid to ride faster, when he was already wobbling all over, is a perfect example of this. LeAnn’s only desire was to steal the chance to teach the kid to ride from his Mother. LeAnn followers keep pushing the point that Brandi should be happy that LeAnn doesn’t abuse her kids because that’s what some step-parents do. They fail to see that LeAnn DOES abuse Brandi’s sons with her insidious behavior toward their Mother, inability to allow co=-parenting between Eddie and Brandi and a desire to hurt her husband’s ex so much it clouds her judgement when it comes to child safety. Of course they all made jokes about giving Jake gifts so he could electrocute himself that had LeAnn LOLing and saying she was going to reward them for their loyalty in enabling her delusion that she did nothing wrong.
And PH, Eonline, and US Weekly said that Leann kept her cool and didn’t retailiate. I don’t even know why they are bothering to use the “Brandi should be grateful that Leann loves or is nice to her kids” campaign to fix this. Their argument is pointless because Brandi asked Leann to stop tweeting/blogging/posting photos/giving interviews about her kids, Eddie stated in court documents that he didn’t want his kids to be exposed to any type of public exposure and that his kids shouldn’t be exposed to paps, Eddie told Rachel Ray that he shields his kids so that they don’t know what is going on(how does he shield his kids when Leann Rimes exposes them to people who taunt their mother on twitter), Leann whined about how difficult her childhood was because she was forced into the spotlight at an early age, and Leann went to “rehab” for 2 weeks because she couldn’t handle the stress of twitter and facebook(or so that is what she told CB and People mag).
Every time Leann tweets about the kids, someone should tweet the quote from her interview with Katie about how being in the spotlight at an young age damaged her. Why would she put someone else’s child through this knowing how difficult it’s been for her? That is also a point Brandi needs to bring up when she talks to her lawyers and Eddie. Leann tweets and talks about the kids more than Eddie and Brandi combined.
I’ve wondered why the media coddles her so much. She clearly tweets things to get under Brandi’s skin and she is never called on it unless it’s on twitter. I’ve never once thought she cared for these boys, if she did, she wouldn’t tweet anything about them. Parents want to protect their kids from things that can harm them. Leann Rimes is one big pile of crazy!
@Damage Control The state of CA and the federal government didn’t give Leann any rights Eddie DID she could do nothing without his approval. Darrell Brown was trying to be a smart ass. If any harm comes to those kids when they are in Eddie care the state of CA and the federal government will be on HIS ass. He is the father and suppose to be protecting his kids not let them be exploited he acts more like a pimp than a parent. All Leann can do is tweet. Brandi does not have to sit idly by and take BS from them any longer . Eddie has made some poor decisions but marrying Leann is going to be his biggest regret.
It doesn’t matter what Eddie the moron does or doesn’t put up with. Brandi needs to stop putting up with it and look into what she can do legally. Leann is absolutely a sociopath and doesn’t care whom she hurts to get what she wants. I can’t believe people think it’s fine that she posts pictures of her stepkids nonstop and see it as love or that she has him riding his bike without training wheels and without a helmet in the street and instead of running along beside him, she is filming it for her paid website and urging him to go faster. Brandi, lawyer up NOW.
The Huffington Po has a BEFORE/AFTER poll about step-parents calling their kids their own. What would have made an even better article would have been if they had addressed Eddie’s role in this entire mess.
Here are some issues they could have addressed:
Why won’t Eddie abide by the rules that he imposes on Brandi?
Where is Eddie when Leann is doing all this tweeting and posting all these photos? Does Eddie use the kids to distract Leann so that he can spend that time with other women?
Why does Eddie allow Darrell Brown, a man who openly trashes Brandi on twitter, to post about his kids?
How is he shielding his kids when Leann tweets to parents and the teachers from his kid’s schools?
How come the “happy family” photo-ops with the kids or Leann tweets 10X more about the kids after Leann sets Eddie up with a new job?
Does Eddie allow Leann to use the kids as weapons against Brandi because he can’t handle Brandi’s rejection of him or the fact that Brandi has acheived more success than he has?
How could Eddie tell the courts that he didn’t have money to pay his child support and alimony, when he was going on lavish vacations, there are photos of him and Leann dining out 2-3 times/week and of him walking around in new shoes?
This is a statement that Eddie gave to US Weekly in response to an exclusive that Brandi gave to them about other incidents that have occured to her kids in Leann’s presence: “In a statement to Us, Cibrian, 39, says, “It is absolutely ridiculous that my ex-wife continues to put the personal lives of myself, LeAnn, our sons and my family on public display for the sake of her notoriety. She is fully capable and has the means of contacting myself and LeAnn privately to discuss any matter concerning the children. The fact she chooses not to, should be pretty transparent. And while I do not wish to fuel her ever-igniting fire, there is a breaking point where enough is enough.”
The problems with Eddie’s logic:
Eddie, Eddie, Eddie. Brandi wouldn’t be in a position to make any of this public if Eddie would just stand up to Leann and make her stop tweeting and posting photos and videos of the kids and talking about them in her interviews. Even lastnight Leann was still making tweets about the kids. Eddie’s argument against Brandi would hold more water had Eddie made Leann remove all the photos and videos of the kids from twitter and her fan website and told her not to talk about the boys in her interviews. Seeing as how the photos and videos are still up on both sites and Leann took to making even more tweets about the kids after her interview with the GR, it’s Leann who made all of this public. How many times and how many different ways can Brandi ask Leann and Eddie to stop exploiting her kids?
What is the point in contacting Eddie privately when Eddie isn’t going to do anything to resolve it and Leann made 3 statements on twitter hinting that it didn’t matter how much Brandi complained to Eddie about what she was doing with the kids because Eddie was always going to pick her side?
Another statement from Eddie: “My wife, LeAnn, continues to be a loving and positive influence on the lives of my sons. They are without a doubt lucky to have her. The love they have for their ‘bonus mom’ continues to grow each day as we navigate the changes to our family; a fact that Brandi cannot argue as she herself has stated as much,” Cibrian adds. “If my ex-wife truly cared about the welfare of our sons, she would stop the constant bashing on an important person in their lives and focus on productive co-parenting to make our blended family the strongest it can be. And she would do so privately. Let’s see. . .”
“bonus mom” …”blended family”…”co-parenting” Is it me or does this statement sound more like something that Leann would say? Since Leann was tweeting about blended family blogs lastnight, this statement came from Leann Rimes and not Eddie. And then people can’t understand why Brandi goes public. Leann gave a statement to US Weekly and tried to pass if off as something that Eddie would say, just like she tweets from Eddie’s twitter account.
Funny that “Eddie” would complain about Brandi constantly bashing Leann when Leann’s timeline was filled with over 20 passive aggressive tweets taking digs at Brandi yesterday. Funny that Eddie would complain about Brandi constantly bashing Leann when Guiliana Rancic was at their house lastnight. If “Eddie” truly cared about the welfare of his kids and wants to convince people that Brandi is wrong in this, then every photo, video, twitpic, and blog that Leann posted about the kids would come down TODAY. He will encourage Leann to stop setting up staged photo-ops with his kids, hanging out with people like Guiliana Rancic who trash his mother, and mentioning his kids in any interview.
As long as the photos, blogs, tweets, and videos of Brandi’s kids remain on both those sites, “Eddie’s” argument doesn’t hold water.
@Damage Control That is the question WHERE IS EDDIE? He surely hasn’t been involving himself in the situation by protecting his children you would think he was not in the picture. He is only visible to take phony happy family photos but can’t seem to stop all the drama that keeps happening. What happened to his manhood? That article he supposedly responded to in Radar was not written by Eddie. Instead of being defensive the article should have stated how the situation can be resolved. Just shows where their interest lie he can’t communicate via personal contact but quick to respond when publicly outed. Keep doing it Brandi now you know how to get action.
I 100% agree that Eddie didn’t write the email in ROL, it sounds more like DARRELL BROWN or MATEO wrote it. I think that Leann wrote the email that appeared in US Weekly though. And Leann’s rep, Marcel P has been writing the pro Leann comments on Eonline because the comments he/she made to ROL today are the very same things that were posted on Eonline over the weekend.
The silliest part of Darrell Brown’s email to Brandi, is Leann’s interview with ENews and Guiliana. I keep hearing conflicting dates on when it airs. Leann said Sunday, but one of her fans said that it’s airing today. Seriously. They honestly think it’s a good idea to air this interview, after what they wrote to Brandi in these emails?
You should read Brandi response to Eddie email she put on twitter minus names so telling. That should also be published. It’ tells the whole story and makes Eddie looks like the user he is. There is always someone that knows the real story.
She took it down. She said she felt bad for posting it. Now Brandi should focus on making Leann remove all the blogs, photos, and videos of the kids from her fan website and twitter account. She should not take no for an answer. Either the photos and videos come down in two weeks, or she takes the next step, whatever that maybe. I just don’t like how the media always makes Leann’s victims or Brandi feel bad for daring to publicly speak up for what Leann does to them. These media outlets should be trashing Leann and ENews for their interview for their hypocrisy.
Even without Brandi’s email, we all knew that Leann was abusing something and that she and Eddue were having problems in their marriage. Leann posed with a can of beer while holding Brandi’s son, tweets like she is having a manic episode, and always has GI problems and an incident with kidney stones that left everyone wondering if she was lying or had an eating disorder.
FYI: RadarOnline re-posted Brandi’s email so it’s here:
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More here: http://amygrindhouse.com/email-brandi-glanville-leann-rimes-eddie-cibrian.html
Eddie has nerve it is his doing that situation got out of hand, He can’t or does not want to control his current wife if he would man up he would take matters into his hands for the sake of the kids. Leann spends to much time on twitter and only uses kids for publicity. Blame your ex when you keep silent about things that are happening and you ignore it. Leann has mental issues it’s obvious to everyone. Now all Eddie dirty laundry is out in the open and about time. Stop living in DENIAL and take action before your kids get hurt.