Dale Earnhardt Jr. Recalls Going To Battle With His Stepmom Over Pot Pie As A Child: “I Was Such A Jerk”

It’s no secret that Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his stepmom, Teresa, did not get along.

Teresa married Dale Earnhardt Sr. in 1982, when Jr. was just eight years old. It was around the time that Dale and his older sister Kelley had to move in with their dad because their mom, Brenda’s, house burned down.

Jr. and Teresa never really got along, and that only extended into his adulthood and ultimately contributed to Jr. leaving his father’s company Dale Earnhardt Incorporated follow his death in 2001.

Jr. has talked before about how Teresa and his dad sent him to military school as a kid for poor behavior, though when he described that “poor behavior” and some of the things that caused him getting sent to military school, it sounds like he was juts a rambunctious little boy, though I digress…

Dale Jr. and his wife, Amy, recently launched a new podcast called Bless Your Hardt as part of his Dirty Mo Media empire, and on this weeks episode, Amy asked about the meal he can’t eat anymore because he ate it so much as a kid.

Jr. recalled going to battle with Teresa as a kid many times over chicken pot pie, and he admitted that he blamed many of the things that were “bad” in his life on her for a long time. The war of chicken pot pie was just a symptom over much deeper feelings, it sounds like. Jr. admits that now, he can see her side, especially because he’s now a parent to two young girls himself:

“I feel so bad about this, I do. So Teresa and I had a dynamic relationship. And when I think back, there was a long period of my adult life where I put it all on Teresa. It was bad because it was her fault. And as I’ve gotten older, and especially now that I’ve had kids, trying to get our kids to eat stuff sometimes, it’s impossible.

So I think  back and i’m like, that’s me, I did that. Teresa would sit me down in front of a chicken pot pie, I would tear up a chicken pot pie right now. I hated them. I look at it now, and I go, why did I not want to eat that? The crust? The chicken? The pot? It’s fine. But she put it in front of me, and I would refuse to eat it.

And I hated her for it. In my mind, she’s making me eat something she knows I don’t like and she’s making me do it because she knows I dint like it. She’s just trying to put food in front of me, it’s perfectly fine food. How dare you feed me Brussels sprouts, you know? What kind of cruel person are you? Now that I’ve gotten on this side of it, I’m like, you know, she’s just trying to get me something in my belly. I was such a jerk.”

He went onto recall one time where he faked throwing it all up so she would think it made him sick, saying that it was “stupid” and no wonder that he got sent to military school:

“I’ll tell you one of the things I did one time, and this was stupid. Teresa brought one of them chicken pot pies in there for me to eat, and she left the room. I’m so sorry for everybody that’s gotta hear this… I chewed the whole thing up and spit it back in my plate. And then I made throw up noises, and acted like I puked it up.

In my mind, I thought she would come in there and realize that she had made me eat the chicken pot pie and I vomited it up, and I was like, see, I have thrown it up. See, I told you. Isn’t that so stupid? I was the problem. That’s why I got sent to military school. Stuff like that. I was dumb.”

To be fair, he was a kid, but who doesn’t like chicken pot pie? That’s one thing I never had a problem with as a kid… it wasn’t like she was trying to force him to eat asparagus or something green.

Over the years, they’ve had their fair share of public disagreements, and I’m sure plenty of private ones as well, but Jr. has no problem admitting his faults in all of it and even though this is a silly argument, considering it’s really about chicken pot pie, I think that shows how much he has grown because there was probably a time when he never could’ve imagined owning any part of it.

The full podcast is available below.

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