Whitney Purvis missed her son’s funeral, and the situation is causing a lot of drama for the grief-stricken family.
As Perezcious readers know, the 16 and Pregnant alum’s son Weston Gosa Jr. died tragically earlier this month at just 16. It’s been a devastating turn of events for the whole family, including her ex Weston Gosa Sr. and his wife Amy Gosa. Despite a rocky past, they were all banding together to support one another during the mourning process, but it seems they hit a major bump in the road…
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Last weekend, Whitney apparently showed up late to her son’s funeral service — and was turned away! Oh, no! A source close to the reality star explained that she was heartbroken after she was refused entry from a Georgia funeral home on Saturday. According to the insider via TMZ on Tuesday, Whitney was told by her ex that the funeral would begin at 4 p.m., but when she arrived at the chapel, she was informed the service began at 2 p.m. and she was not on the guest list. WTF?
The source claimed the funeral home staff then asked Whitney and her family to leave the property! No one from her side of the family was allowed in! Huh?!
However, Weston is insisting otherwise. The father told the outlet that’s not how the situation went down at all. Denying the allegations, he claimed he told Whitney there was a viewing set to take place from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., with a service to begin right at 4. He said he personally called Whitney a week before the ceremony to invite her and make it clear there was going to be a strict guest list.
He claimed Whitney did not arrive at the funeral home until after 4:15 p.m. — when the service was already underway and the chapel doors were locked. According to him, the funeral director told his ex that it was too late to enter, which resulted in a heated outburst from Whitney outside the venue. Can you blame her? This was a funeral for her young son! Of course, she was upset they wouldn’t let her in. They couldn’t make an exception for her of all people??
Weston went on to accuse Whitney of messaging him around 5:10 p.m. that evening, calling him “evil” for barring her from the funeral. But when she suggested she hadn’t been on the guest list, he said he texted her a photo of the list to prove she was on it. Also, he said her family — including her mom, aunt, and uncle — were all inside for the funeral after arriving at around 3 p.m. Whoa. How come Whitney was so late then? Did none of her family try to help her get inside?
While there’s some drama, Weston said he and his wife bought Whitney a separate urn for some of Weston Jr.’s ashes as a way to show compassion in this difficult time. The teenager suffered from many medical issues, and his father told the outlet his cause of death was listed as natural causes on his death certificate.
Not surprisingly, this has turned into a very he-said, she-said situation! But Whitney is not backing down on her side of the story. She took to her Facebook on Wednesday morning to hit back at Weston’s claims. The MTV personality said she’s allowed Weston Sr. and Amy to “bash me online and make up their own narrative to make me sound horrible for years” — and she’s over it! She reiterated she was told by Weston Sr. that the service began at 4, adding:
“We have a horrible relationship, no matter how hard I’ve tried to get along he has always refused and will always do his best to make sure I suffer. You would think with little Weston dying that we could put our differences aside right? Nope. It always has to be drama.”
She insisted she and “all my friends and family were not allowed in” to the funeral because none of them were on the guest list. She even claimed she had “several witnesses” who heard staff tell her she was “not on the list.” She noted, “It wouldnt matter what time I got there I wasnt getting in.” Whitney pointed out she’d never arrive if she knew when the funeral really began. She continued:
“The truth is he didn’t want me there or my family and friends. He invited over a 100 people and I invited like 20 and he told me only my mom and uncles could come. My cousin erin donated money to them and she couldn’t even come but had no problem accepting her money. I wasnt allowed to have any emotional support there but I had already invited ppl close to me that had been apart of little westons life growing up before [b]ig weston let me know I couldnt invite them. I didnt think how that was fair he could only decide who came but yet he needed my signature to cremate him. That is some evil shit to do to someone. Why could we not just celebrate our love for Weston? You have to take this opportunity to make me suffer even more.”
Oof.
The co-parents shared Weston Jr. along with their other son River. Last year, per TMZ, the mother lost custody of her children to their father after she was arrested for allegedly failing to make child support payments. Addressing this, she furthered:
“Everyone always believes what they say because my sons lived with them. He didn’t let me see my kids when I should’ve got them every other weekend and there was nothing I could do about it without a lawyer and file him in contempt and I was even scared of doing that because truthfully i could barely pay rent and bills and be able to pay child support and save for a lawyer all myself. A judge had already told him he wasnt allowed to keep them from me and he still did.I never lost my rights to my kids. He didn’t let me see my kids just to hurt me and spite me. Ive made mistakes in life but I wasnt a horrible mother like they treat me. I didn’t whoop my kids, I didnt have men coming in and out of their life, didn’t do drugs in front of my kids, I spent real quality time & always had enrichments and things to do for them. Im the parent who threw bday parties, im the parent that made every holiday special and always took pictures.my biggest downfall was being poor.”
Because she didn’t have “money to fight back” and her ex had wealthy parents who could help him “appear stable when we went to court” and afford a lawyer, she feels that’s why he “won” the legal battle. And while she “hated” no longer living with them, she thought it might be good for the boys:
“I love my kids more than anything. I hated my life without my boys but I thought they would have a better quality of life at Weston’s since he comes from money and doesn’t have to struggle to survive and has had everything handled to him in life. I didn’t want my kids to have to grow up like I did. I thought maybe it was the right thing to do at first.I never would’ve guessed big Weston would do what he has done to me. If I knew this was what it was going to be like I would have done things differently. Just because someone has money doesnt make them a better parent.”
She accused her ex of engaging in “online bullying, humiliation tactics, [and] trying to control how people perceive me” to make “the world hate” her the way he did. And this affected her relationship with her children:
“Constantly posting about me, taking pictures of me in public, stalking me, telling lies abt me, alienating my son, blocked my number so I couldn’t call and little Weston had to sneak around on Snapchat to talk to me, posting on reddit talking s**t abt me for attention. I wasn’t even allowed to upload pictures of my kids! I couldnt know their school or nothing going on with them medically. I was completely shut out. Seriously what could I possibly done to deserve all of this. Why would you want your son to think that his mother doesn’t care or love him? That is so awful to do to kid.”
Jeez. That’s all awful, and such a terrible spot for Weston Jr. to be in.
Whitney recalled how she used to react to Weston Sr. and Amy’s behavior, which only resulted in them being able to call her “crazy,” which she believed was their main motivator. She even BLASTED Amy for allegedly abandoning her own child:
“I would try being nice and beg for us to just be civil but nothing was ever good enough. My past was always held against and there was no such thing as redemption. It’s fine that his wife abandoned her first son but was willing to raise lil weston who was the same age as him and have the audacity to say abandoned my kids. Theres a difference between abandoning your kids and not being allowed to see them. There is nothing I did that they didnt do too. Hypocrites. I know if I Wouldve had money things would have turned out a lot differently. I raised little weston myself more than half of his life and to act like I didnt, our memories and bond just didnt matter is cruel. This is truly just a sad and hopeless situation altogether.”
She noted her eldest son “didn’t deserve to be put in the middle” or to “have to choose sides or be treated that loving your own mom was wrong.” She then slammed Weston Sr.’s story about the urn:
“He deserved better parents myself included. When little weston passed big Weston tried to be somewhat nice because he needed me to sign papers saying Weston could be cremated but once I signed those papers he went right back to the spiteful conniving person he is. He said he would get me an urn which I thought was a nice gesture but it turns out that was just a way for him to control how much of his ashes I would get which wasn’t much and in the end he never gave it to me.”
She added:
“I begged him to let me see Weston after they denied me entry at the funeral and he said it wasn’t his problem. He is greedy, souless manipulater who gets off on my suffering. If you want to believe the lies he tells that’s fine but please keep in my mind everything is not always as it appears.”
She warned her followers to expect her baby daddy to retaliate with “even bigger lies” trying to “discredit everything” she has shared in this post, she concluded:
“If only people really knew the truth of this situation they would see how fkd up it is. And If you don’t think Weston would lie to me about our son’s funeral then you don’t know Weston. I’m not saying I was the perfect parent by any means cause who is? But I know I didn’t deserve all this and neither did my kids. I hate that I have to even post this long novel but enough is enough. I’m grieving, I just lost my son and for him to do this to me is sickening and pure evil. This has been so traumatic. Even in my son’s death he couldn’t be a decent person not only for me but for little Weston.”
Wow.
Read her full statement (below):
This is a gut-wrenching situation. It’s unfortunate they couldn’t put issues aside to just be together to mourn their son.
[Image via Whitney Purvis/Weston Gosa/Facebook]
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